Distributed-Database Platform Engineer

We areseekinga highly skilled and motivated Distributed-Database Platform Engineer to join our enterprise computing data infrastructure team overseeing Snowflake/Postgres/Greenplum distributed database platform deployments.

This role is critical in managing and scaling our Snowflake Postgres & Greenplum database platforms globally for over 10K will play a key role in driving modernization automation and performance optimization across our Cloud/On-Premdata-platform ecosystem.

In the Technology division we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Production Management & Reliability Engineering position at Director level which is part of the job family responsible for maintaining the stability and reliability of the organizations infrastructure systems ensuring optimal performance and availability to support business operations.

Since 1935 Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What youll do in the role:

• Design implement and manage large-scale distributed database systems using Snowflake and Postgres.

• Lead the architecture and deployment of database clusters across hybrid cloud environments (AWS Azure).

• Develop andmaintainautomation frameworks for provisioning monitoring and scaling database infrastructure.

• Collaborate with data engineering platform and application teams to ensure high availability security and performance.

• Drive adoption of best practices for schema design query optimization and data lifecycle management.

• Implement robustbackup disaster recovery and compliance strategies.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to cross-training initiatives across database technologies.

• Platform Engineering & Operations

  • Architect deploy and manage large-scale distributed database systems using
    Snowflake
    and
    PostgreSQL
    .

  • Ensure high availability disaster recovery andperformancetuning across multi-region deployments.

  • Lead the design and implementation of
    multi-cloud database strategies
    (AWS Azure).

• Automation & Scalability

  • Build and maintain
    infrastructure-as-code
    and automation pipelines for provisioning scaling and monitoring database clusters.

  • Develop self-healing and auto-scaling mechanisms to support dynamic workloads.

• Innovation & Modernization

  • Drive modernization initiatives including
    cloud-native database adoption
    serverless architecture and
    AI/ML integration
    .

  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to improve platform efficiency and developer experience.

• Design and Architect AI/ML Solutions
  :

  • Prior exposure building ML and generative AI solutions using Snowflake Cortex Analyst Search AI-SQL Snowflake ML and Snowpark Container Services.

• Customer Engagement
  :
  Conduct workshops discovery sessions and design thinking engagements with client stakeholders.

  • Exposure around training and deployment of AI/ML models for enterprise use cases.

  • Provide expertise on Snowflakes AI/ML features to internal customer teams.

What youll bring to the role:

• Prior expertise and exposure in PostgreSQL and Snowflake administration and performance tuning.

• Proven experience managing large-scale distributed systems (100K clusters preferred).

• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python Terraform Ansible etc.).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services in AWS and Azure.

• Excellent problem-solving communication and collaboration skills
  Familiar with Cloud Based Architectures /Data-Warehousing Platforms prior experience / knowledge in Snowflake Design Patterns and migration workflow would be a plus.

• Operational Experience and Understanding of large-scale Infrastructure-as-a-service Platforms preferred (Azure/AWS) would be a plus

• Prior experience managing /deploying Geo Redundant database using 3rd party cluster manager like Patroni/Golden Gate etc.

• Platform Management
  -Manage andoptimizesnowflakeenvincluding virtualwhsizing query performance tuning cost management & cortex…