Job Summary

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Database Engineer.

In this role, you will:

- Lead complex or critical database management initiatives that typically involve multiple disciplines and business groups, including database architecture, design, integration and data modeling
- Provide the highest technical expertise for the planning, research, design implementation, maintenance, and control of server class databases
- Review and analyze complex database technologies that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors
- Design and certify next generation database technologies
- Assist in database installations, including troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Recommend improvements to web application processing issues and design
- Consult with multiple client groups to provide strategic solutions, influencing long range internal and enterprise level database architecture and management strategies
- Provide technical leadership and recommendation into the future direction of database technology
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of Database Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications
- Experience in investment performance, brokerage, wealth management, or financial-services data.
- Solid experience leading Database Engineering projects within large organizations, including significant hands-on Oracle experience.
- Experience with large data sets, transactional platforms, or a combination of both
- Knowledgeable in programming or scripting language using Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL loaders and Perl scripts.
- Strong technical and task/timeline-oriented skills necessary to ensure projects are completed in a timely and accurate manner.




- Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills, including stored procedures, performance tuning, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and high-volume batch processing.
- Experience modernizing legacy database workloads and supporting old and new platforms concurrently.
- Working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, or Spring Batch and the ability to collaborate effectively with application engineering teams.
- Strong knowledge of data migration, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, parallel runs, and cutover planning.
- Experience with SQL Loader, flat-file ingestion, staging tables, and scheduled batch environments.

Job Expectations
- Provide technical leadership for BAU operations, including nightly batch monitoring, incident triage, production recovery, root-cause analysis, and database performance tuning.
- Preserve the accuracy and precision of TWR, MWR/IRR, fee-adjusted returns, multi-period metrics, and benchmark calculations.
- Improve resilience around database upgrades, component restarts, failure recovery, and batch dependencies.
- Own schema design, staging and temporary-table strategies, indexing, query optimization, data retention, and deployment controls.
- Establish automated controls for row counts, control totals, duplicates, missing records, financial precision, and source-to-target consistency.
- Build database observability covering job status, execution duration, row counts, reconciliation results, bottlenecks, and failures
- Review designs and code, enforce database engineering standards, mentor team members, and communicate migration risks to technical and business stakeholders.
- Lead analysis and conversion of Oracle stored procedures, PL/SQL, SQL Loader, and database-dependent Perl logic into maintainable Java or database components.
- Strong understanding of numeric precision, transactional integrity, auditability, and controls for financial data.
- Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder communication, and troubleshooting skills.

📌 Database Technology Lead - Oracle, PL/SQL & Legacy Modernization (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wells Fargo
📍 Bengaluru