Senior DBA Team Lead – Oracle/SQL, Cloud & On‑Call (Geneva)

EFG Private Banking; Genf; On-site; CHF 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

EFG International in Geneva is seeking a highly experienced DBA Team Leader to drive database availability, security, and performance across Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Azure services. You will blend hands-on technical leadership with people management, service ownership, and governance in a high‑availability banking environment.

You will lead a multicultural team, define standards for backup, security, monitoring, and DR, and coordinate with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 10+ years in database administration in high-availability environments.
• Experience leading DBA teams or infrastructure teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the DBA team, set priorities and mentor.
• Own lifecycle management of Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Azure services.
• Define standards for architecture, security, backups, monitoring, and recovery.
• Ensure availability, resilience, and recoverability with DR designs.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management for database services.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and cloud adoption.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, Compliance and other teams.

Skills

Oracle DBA

SQL Server DBA

High availability / DR

Cloud & hybrid architectures

Automation scripting

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Postgraduate degree or certifications in database tech or cloud

Tools

Oracle Exadata

Oracle Data Guard

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

EFG International in Geneva is seeking a highly experienced DBA Team Leader to drive database availability, security, and performance across Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Azure services. You will blend hands-on technical leadership with people management, service ownership, and governance in a high‑availability banking environment.

You will lead a multicultural team, define standards for backup, security, monitoring, and DR, and coordinate with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud,