Senior Database Manager

The Group is seeking an experienced Senior Database Manager to lead its Database Management department. The successful candidate will ensure the delivery of secure, resilient, high-performing, and well-governed database services across the Group and its subsidiaries. The role holds accountability for database strategy, architecture, operations, team management, continuity, security, capacity, lifecycle management, vendor management, and continuous improvement across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB environments.

• Own the database management operating model, including prioritization, work allocation, technical standards, procedures, documentation, and service quality objectives.
• Lead and govern enterprise database platforms, primarily Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, while ensuring adequate operational capability for PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Establish database engineering standards, naming conventions, configuration baselines, lifecycle plans, upgrade and patching standards, backup policies, and monitoring requirements.
• Review and approve database designs for new applications, upgrades, integrations, migrations, and major changes, with technical validation of all recommendations prior to production.
• Monitor developments in emerging database technologies, including Oracle cloud and hybrid database services, to inform lifecycle plans, architecture decisions, and the technology roadmap.

• Govern the administration and lifecycle of Oracle Engineered Systems, including Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), and oversee the management and monitoring of Compute Nodes, Storage Cells, and Infini Band (IB) and RoCE switches within the Exadata rack environment.
• Oversee ASM storage management, including the creation and configuration of Disk Groups with appropriate redundancy levels (External, Normal, and High), and Exadata storage operations including Griddisk and Celldisk resizing.
• Govern hardware fault diagnosis procedures for Exadata systems, including the use of ILOM Snapshot and sundiag tools, and ensure engineers follow approved diagnostic and escalation procedures.

• Ensure databases supporting critical systems, trading operations, back-office systems, the data warehouse, and subsidiary services meet approved availability, integrity, performance, and recoverability requirements.
• Govern high availability, replication, clustering, standby, switchover, failover, and disaster recovery solutions for all approved database technologies.
• Ensure backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery are tested regularly with evidence retained, and elevate any gaps against approved RTO/RPO targets.
• Manage capacity and performance governance, including growth forecasting, resource planning, storage trends, licensing impacts, workload risks, and performance baselines.
• Approve monitoring and alerting coverage for all production and critical databases using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), OpManager, Event Log Analyzer, and other approved tools, and oversee OEM installation, upgrades, and database discovery.
• Ensure every new database, instance, cluster, or supporting service is registered in asset, monitoring, backup, security, and continuity inventories before handover to production.

• Govern database security controls, including least privilege, privileged access management, account lifecycle, auditing, encryption where applicable, secure connectivity, hardening, and periodic access reviews, and ensure appropriate use of Oracle security products (such as Transparent Data Encryption, Virtual Private Database, and Oracle Audit Vault) where deployed.
• Ensure production DDL, DML, schema, privilege, and configuration changes follow approved request, testing, approval, and change management procedures with rollback plans and execution evidence, including patching with OPatch and OPatch
  
  Auto for PSU, CPU, one-off, and merged patches.

• Lead database incident and problem management and root cause analysis, ensuring findings are technically validated and that the problem, workaround, root cause, permanent fix, and lessons learned are documented in the approved ticketing system.
• Coordinate with development, infrastructure, networks, cybersecurity, application support, business continuity, and service owners on dependencies,…