Senior Application DBA

Barclays Bank PLC; Toft; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Join us as Senior Application DBA in Digital Channels at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Senior Application DBA, you should have experience as a Senior Level Database Administrator with expertise as application DBA for Oracle or similar database technologies, excellent skills on Oracle SQL query writing, and experience solving database contention with application teams, SQL Query Optimization, Performance Tuning problems (Slow SQL response, slow database response, etc.). Strong experience on Partitioning, Index, tablespace, physicalizing data model concepts, robust implementation, and rollback plan is also required.

Working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime is essential. Some other highly valued skills may include experience with data migration tools/software and databases like MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL. Proven experience in executing database migration, upgrades & decommission strategies at enterprise-scale is crucial. Proven track record of executing SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams and experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Jenkins, Liquibase, Oracle SQLcL, Shell, BASH, UNIX, etc.) is also important.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required, ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.

Accountabilities

1. Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
2. Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages.
3. Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
4. Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats.
5. Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements and ensure seamless integration.
6. Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities.

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.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.