Senior Database Engineer
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Administer, install, configure, upgrade, and patch databases.
- Monitor and optimize database performance, including capacity planning and detailed analysis.
- Perform database backup and complex recovery.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and recover from complex database issues.
- Automate routine tasks using scripts and open-source tools.
- Provide technical assistance and advice to application teams.
- Coordinate with internal IT teams and escalate issues to vendors for timely response and recovery.
- Gather requirements and design business and technical database solutions.
- Develop, test, and implement queries, stored procedures, and automation scripts for various database technologies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in database administration, including installation, configuration, backup and recovery, database tuning, and application design and development support.
- Proficiency in physical database modelling, information engineering, multi-tier design and development, and open systems.
- Knowledge and experience with database high availability and disaster recovery techniques and concepts.
- Experience analyzing and optimizing performance involving IO, CPU, indexes, partitions, and schema redesign.
- Familiarity with geo-redundant architectures such as Always-On, Active/Active, and Master/Master is advantageous.
- Relevant experience with Oracle, SQL Server, EDB Postgres, and MongoDB is preferred.
- Good interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Holistic and flexible benefits to suit different lifestyles.
- Community initiatives.
- Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.
- Wellbeing, growth, and career-development support.
Tech Stack
Microsoft SQL ServerMongoDB
Categories
About Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) is a Singapore-headquartered bank founded in 1932 that provides consumer, corporate, investment, and transaction banking, plus wealth and private banking, insurance, asset management, and stockbroking. It serves retail customers, SMEs, and large enterprises across key markets including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Greater China. OCBC is publicly listed on the Singapore Exchange and operates subsidiaries such as Bank of Singapore, Great Eastern, Lion Global Investors, OCBC NISP, and OCBC Wing Hang.