Director, Database Administration

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd.; Durham (NH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments seeks a Director of Database Administration to lead Oracle, PostgreSQL, and distributed SQL database engineering across on-prem and cloud platforms. The role emphasizes end-to-end database service delivery, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration in a high-demand environment.

You will oversee database architecture, monitoring, and provisioning, partnering with cybersecurity, capacity planning, and systems teams to ensure reliability for mission-critical

Qualifications

• 15 years of Oracle database experience incl. Exadata, PostgreSQL, distributed SQL
• 5 years of cloud experience across AWS/Azure/OCI
• 5 years of replication tech (GoldenGate, HVR, EDB Replication)
• Deep Oracle internals, optimizer, partitioning, workload management

Responsibilities

• Provide applications database administration services including SQL review, performance analysis and design support
• Lead proofs of concept for new technology solutions
• Interface with Systems, Cyber Security, and Capacity Planning teams as needed
• Define and drive database performance standards and best practices
• Create clear technical documentation and onboarding of new apps/clients

Skills

Oracle database

PostgreSQL

Distributed SQL

Cloud experience

Oracle internals

Query performance tuning

Linux shell scripting

Oracle RAC performance

Pl/SQL

Oracle GoldenGate

HVR

EDB Replication

Tools

Exadata

Snowflake

CockroachDB

SingleStore

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Linux

Job description

## Director, Database AdministrationApplylocations: Merrimack, NH: Durham, NC: Westlake, TXtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 2128695## ## Job Description:# **Director, Database Administration**# **Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position****The Role**The Institutional Brokerage Database Services Center of Excellence (COE) COE is seeking a highly capable and motivated Director of Database Engineering and Administration to lead the design and delivery of database engineering solutions for mission-critical platforms.This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with leading database technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, SingleStore, NoSQL, and Snowflake. It is ideal for building and applying end-to-end database service expertise, with a strong emphasis on application database administration and solution design. The position requires a creative mindset and a strong sense of ownership for assigned problems and requests, while providing significant exposure to cutting-edge technologies across the broader database landscape. **The Expertise and Skills You Bring*** 15 years of deep experience in Oracle database technologies, with a proven end-to-end understanding of the database stack, including Exadata, PostgreSQL, and distributed SQL databases, along with strong technical leadership on strategic initiatives. Experience with Db2 is an added advantage.* 5 years of cloud experience**The Skills You Bring*** 15 years of experience in Oracle database administration, performance engineering, and replication engineering across Linux and engineered systems.* 3 years of database performance experience on additional platforms, including PostgreSQL, Snowflake, CockroachDB, SingleStore, and Microsoft SQL Server, across Linux and engineered systems.* 5 years of experience with distributed replication technologies (for example, Oracle Golden Gate, HVR and EDB Replication); preferred.* Experience with cloud database platforms; AWS, Azure, or Oracle OCI certification is a plus.* Deep domain expertise in Oracle internals, optimizer behavior, statistics management, partitioning, physical implementation, and workload management for highly scalable, resilient database platforms.* Advanced skills in query performance tuning and optimization, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Linux shell scripting, and building database monitoring jobs using PL/SQL.* Strong Linux shell scripting skills, with a solid understanding of Linux performance, preferred.* Strong understanding of Oracle RAC performance challenges.* Proven ability to work effectively in team environments while maintaining a positive, collaborative attitude.* Ability to define and drive database performance standards, best practices, and improvement initiatives; AWS cloud experience is desired.**The Value You Deliver*** Perform applications database administration services including SQL code review, performance analysis, query tuning, database application design, physical data modeling, development support and Engineering.* Lead proof of concept efforts to evaluate and enable new technology solutions* Interface with enterprise teams for Systems Administrators, Cyber Security and Capacity Planning groups as and when situation demands* Should have strong time management skills with willingness and ability to handle multiple projects/initiatives at the same time* Self-motivated with strong team, interpersonal and communication skills!* Establish database standards for operations, upgrades, migrations and onboarding new applications and/or clients* Write clear, concise, well organized technical documentation to maintain standards and procedures**The Team**The Institutional Brokerage Database Services Center of Excellence (COE), delivers business-facing database solutions that cover the full application and business lifecycle of data platforms, including database design, solution engineering, database engineering, application-data-database integration, replication, performance consulting, deployment, and support, using world-class methodologies and technologies. The team provides end-to-end database services across a broad set of platforms, including Db2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CockroachDB, Singlestore, DynamoDB, Aerospike, and Snowflake.## ## Certifications:## ## Category:## Information Technology