Senior Database Engineer

IHG Hotels; Georgia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IHG Hotels is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise database solutions across Oracle, AWS, and Google Cloud. You will partner with application teams to deliver scalable, secure database platforms aligned with IHG's objectives.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive standards, and contribute to architecture decisions, tooling, and automation across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive database engineering experience.
• Expertise in high availability and disaster recovery.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience with Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in IaC and automation (Terraform, Python).

Responsibilities

• Architect and standardize enterprise database platforms across hybrid cloud.
• Administer and improve database services, incident management, RCA, and on-call escalation.
• Perform advanced database analysis, performance tuning, and SQL optimization.
• Design and support replication, backup, recovery, and DR using GoldenGate and ZDLRA.
• Develop automation for provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform.
• Lead POC initiatives and evaluate new database technologies.

Skills

Database architecture

SQL proficiency

Leadership

Mentoring

Cloud databases

Hybrid cloud

Performance tuning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Oracle Certified Professional

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Chef

Oracle GoldenGate

ZDLRA

Job description

The Senior Database Engineer will own the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise database solutions within Oracle, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. In this role, you'll partner with the application team to deliver scalable, secure, and across an offering of database platforms that further support IHG's strategic objectives.

As the Senior Database Engineer, you'll provide advanced engineering expertise, resolve complex database challenges, drive cloud database innovations, and serve as a technical advisor as well as a mentor to junior team members. Your contributions will influence database architecture, establish standards as well as best practices across the organization.

We're seeking deep technical understanding in enterprise database platforms and architectures including Oracle RAC on Exadata, Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA), Oracle GoldenGate, AWS RDS for Oracle, AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, and other cloud-native database technologies. In this role, you'll need analytical, problem-solving, and technical design skills, including structured analysis, solution design, technology evaluation, and proof-of-concept development.

Your Day-to-Day

• Architect, design, implement, optimize, and establish standards for highly available enterprise database platforms across complex hybrid cloud environments, ensuring performance, scalability, reliability, recoverability, and operational efficiency.
• Administer, support, troubleshoot, and continuously improve enterprise database services through incident management, operational support, root cause analysis (RCA), lifecycle management, on‑call escalation, and service stability initiatives for.
• Perform advanced database analysis, engineering, coding, and performance tuning while partnering with application teams to optimize SQL, database design, and support database code deployments.
• Design, implement, and support replication, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions utilizing technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA).
• Develop and maintain automation solutions, including Terraform‑based Infrastructure as Code (IaC), to streamline database provisioning, deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Lead and participate in proof‑of‑concept (POC) initiatives, technology evaluations, and adoption of emerging database platforms and capabilities while continuously expanding expertise across new database technologies.

What We Need from You

Bachelors in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work‑related experience. Typically, a minimum of 7+ years of progressive work‑related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.

• Expertise in database architecture, design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management, including high availability, disaster recovery, replication, backup and recovery, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of database performance monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and outage remediation across complex on‑premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL programming, query optimization, database coding, and data modeling, with the ability to partner with application teams to improve application and database performance. Strong understanding of data management principles and database technologies, including relational, distributed, and emerging non‑relational database platforms.
• Experience designing and supporting cloud database solutions for Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL workloads, including cluster architecture, replication, migration, tuning, backup, recovery, and operational support.
• Proficiency with cloud database tooling and services, including AWS and Google Cloud technologies such as DMS, CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Stackdriver, Query Insights, AlloyDB, and automation frameworks utilizing Python and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Ability and willingness to rapidly learn and support emerging database technologies, cloud services, and modern data platforms as business requirements evolve.
• Experience contributing to large-scale technology initiatives and projects, supporting planning, organization, execution, and delivery from concept through implementation. Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring abilities , with demonstrated success collaborating with clients, vendors, business partners, and technical teams while developing and mentoring junior database professionals.

Preferred Experience:

• AWS Platforms: Aurora MySQL, RDS for Oracle, DynamoDB, Aurora Postgres
• GCP Platforms: Google Cloud SQL(Postgres), Alloy DB
• Automation tooling expertise - Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, etc.
• Oracle EXADATA administration
• Oracle Golden Gate replication
• Working knowledge in GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Bitbucket and Artifactory

Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional (