Sr Lead, Database Development

Northern Trust Corp; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust in Pune seeks an experienced Senior DBA to own Data Protection databases across production, UAT, and development environments. You will design, implement, and maintain SQL Server databases (on‑prem and Azure), ensuring availability, security, and performance while guiding DR and recovery strategies.

You will lead capacity planning, automate ingestion pipelines, and provide escalation support for database incidents.

Qualifications

• Senior DBA responsibilities across production, UAT, and development environments.
• Own database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Lead database strategy for data protection services, integrations, and platform migrations.
• Design and tune enterprise SQL Server databases (on premise and cloud).
• Implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery aligned with RTO/RPO.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary DBA for Data Protection databases across environments.
• Define and enforce DBA standards and guardrails.
• Lead capacity planning including storage, compute, and growth modelling.
• Provide senior DBA oversight for ETL and ingestion pipelines.

Skills

SQL Server

DBA

Performance tuning

Azure SQL

Backup & DR

Security & Compliance

Data migration

Monitoring

Tools

SSMS

Azure SQL Managed Instance

PowerShell

SSIS

Job description

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

1. Primary DBA Ownership (Core Accountability)

• Act as the primary DBA for all Data Protection databases across production, UAT, and development environments.
• Own database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Serve as final technical escalation for database incidents, outages, and data integrity issues.
• Define and enforce DBA standards, operational guardrails, and support models.

2. Database Architecture & Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise grade SQL Server databases (on premise and cloud, including Azure SQL Managed Instance).
• Own physical and logical database design, including:
  • Schema design
  • Indexing strategies
  • Partitioning
  • Performance tuning
• Lead database strategy for new Data Protection services, integrations, and platform migrations.
• Govern schema evolution to ensure backward compatibility and reporting stability.

3. Performance, Reliability & Capacity Management

• Proactively monitor and tune database performance (queries, indexes, memory, IO).
• Lead capacity planning and forecasting, including storage, compute, and growth modelling.
• Design and test backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies in line with enterprise RTO/RPO expectations.

4. Data Ingestion, ETL & Automation

• Provide senior DBA oversight and hands on support for ETL and ingestion pipelines.
• Ensure ingestion processes are performant, resilient, recoverable, and auditable.
• Optimize ingestion for high volume, complex, and inconsistent datasets.
• Drive automation to reduce manual DBA intervention and operational risk.

5. SQL Engineering & Reporting Enablement

• Develop and govern complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures that underpin:
  • Regulatory reporting
  • Audit evidence
  • Executive dashboards
• Ensure reporting accuracy, data lineage, and traceability.
• Act as escalation point for reporting failures driven by database issues.

6. Security, Controls & Regulatory Readiness

• Own database level security controls, including:
  • Access control models
  • Service account governance
  • Credential rotation
  • Encryption and secure connectivity
• Ensure databases meet audit, regulatory, and risk management expectations, including evidence production.
• Partner with Risk, Audit, and Control teams to remediate database related findings.

7. Operational Leadership

• Lead response to major incidents and post incident root cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers and analysts on database best practices without direct line management.
• Provide clear risk signals, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Represent DBA interests in architecture, change, and governance forums.

8. Documentation & Standards

• Own DBA runbooks, operational documentation, health check reporting, and capacity plans.
• Define repeatable operational procedures for database changes and maintenance.
• Contribute to Data Protection service documentation and control narratives.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve. Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [e-mail], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe. Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.

Looking for greater? You found it. A global financial leader with more than 22,000 employees in 23 locations worldwide, Northern Trust empowers our employees to achieve more than just business goals. Our focus on work-life balance, career mobility and unique opportunities are just a few of the reasons we’ve been named one of the world’s most admired companies.

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