Senior Database Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group3 months ago
St. Louis, MO, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Review database designs and assess the impact of database changes across upstream, downstream, and customer environments.
- Coordinate database release planning, testing, deployment, and change management activities.
- Develop database tools, utilities, automation solutions, database objects, maintenance scripts, reports, and monitoring solutions.
- Support database testing, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and technical consulting for cross-functional teams.
- Support database deployments, migrations, modernization, capacity planning, monitoring, maintenance, and release management in cloud environments.
- Respond to database incidents involving performance, data discrepancies, latency, access, and availability issues.
- Perform performance tuning, optimization, capacity management, backup validation, failover testing, restoration testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Develop scripts and automation to improve operational efficiency, standardization, monitoring, and process optimization.
- Document procedures, best practices, and technical solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience administering and supporting enterprise database environments, including Sybase ASE and Azure/AWS SQL managed instances.
- Experience supporting databases on Red Hat Linux platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in complex production environments.
- Experience with SQL performance tuning, stored procedures, triggers, and database optimization.
- Experience developing automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Perl.
- Knowledge of database replication, high availability, backup, recovery, failover, and disaster recovery practices.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms is preferred.
- Experience with large-scale OLTP or data warehouse environments, including Snowflake, is preferred.
- Experience with replication technologies, Kafka-based data distribution, Azure Data Factory, benchmark or load testing, migrations, upgrades, monitoring solutions, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL, or Azure Cosmos DB is preferred.
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and independent-work skills.
- Financial industry experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Annual Wellness Allowance, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings options, prescription drug coverage, and a 401(k) savings plan with company match.
- Basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance, commuter assistance, healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- The anticipated base salary is $100,200 - $167,000, with eligibility for an Annual Incentive Plan; compensation figures are excluded from benefits classification.
- LSEG is an equal-opportunity employer offering reasonable accommodations and a collaborative global work environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.