Staff Engineer II - Oracle/SQL Server Database Administrator

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Engineer II - Oracle/SQL Server Database Administrator with strong hands-on experience supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server platforms in highly regulated, enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical planning and solution design for database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable, resilient, and recoverable database solutions across Oracle and SQL Server platforms.
• Engineer and support high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including backup, restore validation, replication, and DR testing.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance, availability, scalability, and security, including transaction-specific performance metrics that can be shared with business partners.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues related to performance, data integrity, concurrency, backup/recovery, replication, upgrades, and migrations.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce database standards, policies, procedures, and operational best practices, including secure configuration and hardening.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and desktop procedures that others can execute, ensuring compliance with IT policies and industry standards.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and desktop procedures that others can execute, ensuring compliance with IT policies and industry standards.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, security, risk, and audit teams to ensure database solutions integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms.
• Review application database scripts for efficiency, performance, and compliance with standards.
• Implement automation and scripting to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and support compliance validation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers and act as an escalation point for complex production or compliance-related issues.
• Support multiple projects simultaneously using disciplined governance, intake, and delivery practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience engineering and supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases in production environments.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Strong experience designing and supporting backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting regulated environments, including SOX, GDPR, internal/external audits, and security assessments.
• Advanced understanding of database security concepts, including encryption, access controls, audit logging, and separation of duties.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues end-to-end, from application behavior through database and infrastructure layers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear documentation and technical narratives.
• Experience creating standard operating procedures (SOPs/MOPs) and operational documentation.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Proficiency with common productivity tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals.
• Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitiging risks at the project level.
• Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance.

Qualifications

Must work onsite in office 4-days per week.

Skills

• Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database administration.
• Database design and implementation.
• High availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Database performance optimization.
• Database security and compliance.
• Collaboration and team management.
• Automation and scripting.
• Technical documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Project management and governance.
• Financial services or banking knowledge.

Benefits

You’ll love our benefits package, which includes competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program.