Director, Database Administration

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

• 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.

• 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