Staff Engineer II – Oracle/SQL Server Database Administrator

Role Overview

• Lead the technical planning and solution design for database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, security standards, and regulatory requirements
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable, resilient, and recoverable database solutions across Oracle and SQL Server platforms
• Engineer and support high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including backup, restore validation, replication, and DR testing
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance, availability, scalability, and security, including transaction-specific performance metrics that can be shared with business partners
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues related to performance, data integrity, concurrency, backup/recovery, replication, upgrades, and migrations
• Establish, maintain, and enforce database standards, policies, procedures, and operational best practices, including secure configuration and hardening
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and desktop procedures that others can execute, ensuring compliance with IT policies and industry standards
• Serve as a subject matter expert for SOX, GDPR, audit, and security controls, supporting exams, evidence collection, remediation efforts, and control validation
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, security, risk, and audit teams to ensure database solutions integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms
• Review application database scripts for efficiency, performance, and compliance with standards
• Implement automation and scripting to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and support compliance validation
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers and act as an escalation point for complex production or compliance-related issues
• Support multiple projects simultaneously using disciplined governance, intake, and delivery practices

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience engineering and supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases in production environments
• Bachelor's degree in related field required
• Strong experience designing and supporting backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions
• Demonstrated experience supporting regulated environments, including SOX, GDPR, internal/external audits, and security assessments
• Advanced understanding of database security concepts, including encryption, access controls, audit logging, and separation of duties
• Ability to troubleshoot issues end-to-end, from application behavior through database and infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear documentation and technical narratives
• Experience creating standard operating procedures (SOPs/MOPs) and operational documentation
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership skills
• Proficiency with common productivity tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Previous leadership experience preferred
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
• Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
• Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals
• Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams
• Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level
• Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance
• May require up to 25% travel
• Must work onsite in office 4-days per week

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• SQL

Benefits

• competitive salaries
• an ownership stake in the company
• medical and dental insurance
• time off
• a great 401k matching program
• tuition assistance program
• an employee volunteer program
• wellness program