Job Title- Database Lead
Position type- Full Time
Work Location- Bangalore, Whitefield
Working style- Hybrid
Required education and certifications critical for the role-
Any Graduate or Post-Graduate (full time)
Required years of experience –
5-6 years of relevant experience
AON IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BETTER DECISIONS
At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
As an organization, we are committed as one firm to our purpose, united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ROLE:
Defines end-to-end infrastructure architecture — compute, storage, network, and cloud — for Aon's global technology estate, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy and standards worldwide.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsibilities of this role include:
• Lead database architecture, capacity planning, and technology selection (RDBMS/NoSQL)
• Own database performance tuning, high availability,
disaster recovery, and backup/recovery strategy
• Establish database security, access control, and compliance standards (encryption, auditing, data masking)
• Lead and mentor a team of database engineers/administrators
• Oversee database migrations, upgrades, and patching cycles with minimal downtime
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams on data model reviews and query optimization
• Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs for database availability and performance
• Evaluate emerging database technologies (cloud-managed databases, NewSQL) for adoption
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
Required Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of database administration/engineering experience, with 2+ years in a lead role
• Deep expertise in at least one major RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) plus exposure to NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
📌 Database Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aon
📍 Bengaluru