Date live: 07/29/2026

Business Area: Customer Digital and Data

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-(phone hidden)

To be successful as a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer / Application DBA , you should have experience with: Core Technical Skills

- Senior-level PostgreSQL Database Administration and Engineering expertise within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, resilient, and scalable PostgreSQL platforms.
- Good working knowledge of Oracle Database Administration (Application DBA focus), including SQL, Import/Export utilities, and support of legacy Oracle estates.
- Strong understanding of partitioning, indexing strategies, storage management, tablespaces, and physical data model design.
- Experience designing robust implementation, migration, rollback, and recovery strategies for database changes.

Platform & Operations Skills

- Managing large-scale, high-performance, highly available (24x7) database environments.

- Solid focus on reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.

- Incident management, monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reduction of mean time to resolution.

- Experience implementing secure database configurations and adhering to enterprise security and risk controls. Knowledge of observability, monitoring, alerting, and proactive platform health management.

- Migration & Modernisation Skills

- Proven experience delivering Oracle to PostgreSQL migration and modernisation programmes at enterprise scale.

- Experience with database upgrade, migration, and decommissioning strategies.

- Strong understanding of data migration tools, schema conversion, data validation, and migration testing approaches.





- Knowledge of additional database technologies including MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, and Oracle. Experience supporting cloud and on-premises database platforms through technology transformation initiatives.

- Automation & SRE Skills

- Strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, operational excellence, and automation-first delivery.

- Experience implementing database changes through modern CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

- Hands-on experience with:

- GitLab CI/CD

- Liquibase

- PostgreSQL tooling (psql, pg_dump, pg_restore)

- Oracle SQLcl

- Shell/Bash scripting

- Linux/Unix administration and scripting

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices.

- Understanding of platform reliability engineering, capacity management, and service availability management.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

- Strong awareness of risk, controls, compliance, and operational governance.
- Experience delivering large-scale change and transformation initiatives.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to balance business priorities and technical outcomes.
- Strong collaboration across architects, engineers, platform teams, product owners, and business stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business,



platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a transparent set o

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