Database Engineer - Oracle DBA; Lead

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. We partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to encourage a collaborative environment.

Eligibility: all candidates must possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Be a thought leader: a mid‑senior point of expertise on Database Engineering design, issues, industry trends, and developing technologies. Partners with leadership to develop strategy and sets the direction, planning, and execution of database administration priorities in regards to security, risk management, scalability, and reliability.

• Leads critical incidents from inception through incident resolution, including root cause analysis.
• Documents new technology and provides knowledge transfer to others.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management by protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data, aligning policies, procedures, and controls.
• Advances upgrade paths, compute and storage capacity expansion, and database hardening and patching.
• Transforms business requirements into technical specifications that demonstrate effective data design and system architecture to meet SLAs (RTOs and RPOs).
• Key contributor in implementing proactive monitoring/alerting and automatic corrective actions.
• Owns technical product design and architecture, including system installation, configuration, and performance management.
• Collaborates and builds cross‑functional influence, motivating others; serves as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
• Develops attainable goals in a challenging and complex environment with competing priorities.
• Oversees the work of others in a supportive and effective manner.
• Mentors, coaches, and guides other Database Engineers.
• Works closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and create a partnership for Early Warning where database services are reliable, performant, and cost‑effective.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Proficiency in Oracle and MS SQL Server, including clustering, replication, partitioning, encryption, and high‑availability/disaster recovery configurations; willing to be cross‑trained and lead in other RDBMS technologies.
• Minimum of 12 years of data management, architecture, and systems experience for large‑scale implementations.
• Hands‑on experience designing and deploying secure database systems for high performance, resiliency, availability, and reliability.
• Advanced experience in identifying and leading tuning and performance improvements for database systems within and across the technology stack.
• RDBMS domain expertise and knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean), and Dev Ops practices.
• Seasoned verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present any data‑management concept to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work outside normal business hours and participate in a 24x7 on‑call rotation.
• Background or drug screen.

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Information Systems or another related field.
• Cloud certification in database specialization.
• Experience with mainstream on‑premise and cloud‑based database technologies such as AWS Aurora, RDS, EC2, Azure, and OCI.
• Knowledge of No
  
  SQL and Big Data Analytics systems such as Redshift, HBASE, and Aerospike.
• Experience with Monitoring and Alerting Systems such as App Dynamics, Zabbix, Pager Duty, OEM, Idera, and Cloud Watch.
• Fin Tech experience is highly beneficial.