Database Platform Engineer; m​/f​/d

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The role builds, operates and improves commonly required capabilities to create and run applications in a modern way.

Supports and consults business IT teams about the usage of these platform(s) and services to focus on delivering value at high speed.

Key Responsibilities:

Specialist advice

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specializations.

• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization's planning and operations.

• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.

• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Emerging technology monitoring

• Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.

• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.

Programming/software engineering

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.

• Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

• Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.

• Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

System design

• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.

• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.

• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.

• Models, simulates, or prototypes the behavior of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.

• Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.

Database design

• Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities.

• Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options.

• Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.

• Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

Testing

• Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.

• Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.

• Analyses and reports test activities and results.

• Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong knowledge of database concepts & technologies including enterprise and open-source platforms (RDBMS, No
  
  SQL, specialized databases)

• Experience working with database infrastructure in public and/or private cloud environments (AWS, Azure)

• Good understanding of core cloud capabilities including Networking, Monitoring, HADR, Replication, Backup & Recovery and Database Migrations

• Hands-on experience in one or more platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB or Document DB

• Basic understanding of DB security principles like Encryption, Access Mgmt and Auditing

• Experience in performance tuning including SQL optimization, resource utilization and system performance improvements

• Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows Server in database environments

• Interest in automation, emerging technologies and adopt AI-driven solution adoption

• Collaborative team player with good communication and stakeholder interaction skills

• Relevant certifications in database and/or cloud technologies are a plus

Systems integration and build

• Defines the software modules needed for an integration build and produces a build definition for each generation of the software.

• Accepts completed software modules, ensuring that they meet defined criteria.

• Produces software builds from software source code for loading onto target hardware.

• Configures the hardware and software environment as required by the system being integrated.

• Produces integration test…