Senior Database Engineer (1 year relevant experience required)
Company: Barclays Bank
Job Location: Knutsford and Glasgow
Job Type: Full-time
Posted: 2d ago
Job Details
Join us as a Senior Database Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Expectations
- Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
To be successful as a Senior Database Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL.
- Experience with DevOps automation tools such as version control (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers, and Kubernetes (OpenShift).
- Subject matter expertise in PostgreSQL, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
- Proven record of managing database engineering teams.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in a financial environment.
- Experience with system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
- Solid experience with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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