Vice President, Database Engineer

Tech Americas | Platform Teams | Infra Database Administrator, VP | New York

In Americas, ING’s Wholesale Banking division offers a broad range of innovative financial products and services to domestic and international corporate and institutional clients.

When you come to work at ING, you’re joining a team where individuality isn’t just accepted, it’s encouraged. We’ve built a culture that’s fun, friendly and supportive – it’s the kind of place where you can be yourself and make the most of whatever you have to offer.

We give people the freedom to take risks, think differently, take ownership of their work, and make great things happen. We’re here to help you get ahead. And with our global network, there’s plenty of scope to take your career in new directions, perhaps even ones you’ve never considered. ING Americas follows a hybrid work model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility.

Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area.

Sound like the kind of place you’d feel at home? We’d love to hear from you.

DBA will be part of the Infra Platform team and will provide guidance and support to stream aligned teams with regards to best practices in deploying and maintaining ING US cloud server estate with regards to underlying databases. They will understand application databases, troubleshoot, fix issues, and work as part of any team addressing an ongoing incident. The DBA will be familiar with applicable controls and will demonstrate our compliance with them.

They will also advise, deploy and verify deployment of security patches and participate in fixing and verification of code red remediation efforts.

ING Americas Tech is the support backbone and catalyst for new and innovative solutions that drive growth for both internal and external customers. We strive to bring technical expertise and business knowledge together to support a wide range of products within media and telecoms (TMT), utilities power and renewables, natural resources, food and agribusiness, real estate and infrastructure, with financial product specialists in industry lending, corporate finance, debt capital, commodity and export financing, sustainable finance and much more.

• Responsible for architecting and implementing database solutions that provide availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, and security.
• Ensure proper allocation of hardware resources to databases, maintaining high resilience and optimizing performance tuning.
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
• Provide metrics, trend analysis, and recommendations to the management team to enable informed decisions regarding resource management.
• Troubleshoot and solve SQL development issues.
• Implement and release database changes according to agreed timelines and costs.
• Develop, implement, and follow standard operational procedures to provide standardization and stability to the environment and processes.
• Assist developers with Stored Procedures troubleshooting and performance improvement.
• Participate in resolution and root cause analysis of any outages or other SLA impacting issues.
• Conduct routine operational maintenance including installations, upgrades, patching, monitoring, auditing, and issue resolution.
• Operate a 24x7 production environment. Some on‑call/off‑hours support will be required.
• Participate in DR exercises.
• Participate in incidents to ensure issues are resolved.

• Bachelor and/or Master diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years as a Database Administrator in a Financial Services, Banking, or Investment Banking environment.
• Proven expertise in Oracle databases in a multi‑tenant environment.
• Proven expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Always‑On.
• Experience in SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) is a plus.
• Strong enhancement of controllers and security.
• Microsoft Azure CI/CD pipeline and Power Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of our business areas is a nice‑to‑have.
• Ability to navigate an environment with virtual teams and interface with international stakeholders.
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