Principal Database Engineer
Job in
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07390, USA
Listed on 2026-07-03
Listing for:
DTCC
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Database Administrator, Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
Pay and Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
Seeking an experienced Database Engineer with proven leadership in managing distributed teams, along with strong hands-on expertise in Oracle technologies across on-premises and AWS cloud environments, including RAC, Exadata, Data Guard, Golden Gate, RDS for Oracle, Oracle Database on AWS, and ZDLRA. The ideal candidate will also possess strong scripting skills in at least one programming language, with a demonstrated automation-first mindset.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead a distributed DBA engineering team (multiple direct reports)
- Operational leader for Database Engineering (incidents, escalations, stability)
- Serve as the day-to-day operations lead for Database Engineering
- Own and manage production escalations, major incidents, and resolution coordination
- Support ongoing delivery, releases, and engineering initiatives
- Resolve complex issues involving multiple dependencies
- Architect, design, and implement Oracle databases on AWS RDS to ensure data integrity, security, and near-continuous availability for critical financial applications
- Perform database migrations from on-premises Oracle platforms to AWS RDS, ensuring performance, resiliency, and compliance post-migration
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance using AWR/ASH, RDS Performance Insights, Cloud Watch, and OEM to meet Tier-0/Tier-1 SLAs
- Supporting applications using Data guard, RAC, and Goldengate microservices.
- Develop, review, and optimize database code including PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, materialized views, and complex SQL
- Implement and maintain database security controls, including encryption (TDE), data masking, redaction, fine-grained auditing, and access governance
- Design and support disaster recovery solutions using RDS automated backups, snapshots, Multi-AZ, and cross-region strategies
- Participate in production support, on-call rotations, and incident escalations to meet enterprise SLAs
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS RDS for Oracle, Oracle Database on AWS and AWS services (Cloud Watch, IAM, KMS, VPC, S3, EBS, EC2)
- Strong knowledge of PL/SQL coding standards, performance tuning, and database internals
- Experience with OEM, Grafana, Goldengate and related database tooling
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and Dev Ops collaboration models
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, and Jira
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (Shell, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
- Solid understanding of data modeling, schema design, and performance-driven architecture
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams
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