Job Title: Database Principal Engineer
Location : Sheffield
Job Type: Contract – Hybrid- 3 DAYS ONSITE
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the long-term strategy for database infrastructure, ensuring alignment with the bank’s overall IT and business strategies.
- Function as a subject matter expert and advisor on all matters related to database technologies, providing guidance to senior leadership and IT teams.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and technical specifications.
- Co-Lead the design and architecture of the bank’s shared database solutions (DBaaS/PaaS), followed by their implementation.
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies and advancements in engineering practices, evaluating and recommending innovative solutions as appropriate.
- Support the Platform Lead and identify solutions to engineering gaps/challenges.
- Facilitate development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps/challenges.
- Act as key point of contact for engineering decisions from a technical and risk perspective.
- Look to innovate/improve processes, reducing hand-offs and automate processes.
Experience, Technical Skills and Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant discipline.
- 10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position.
- Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.
- Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design.
- Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code.
- Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.
- Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions.
- Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer
- Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.
- Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.
- Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate and convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience of evaluating multiple technology solutions in order to define and design best fit for a particular use case.