Lead Data Platform & Database Engineer
Core
Senior technical authority owning the end-to-end relational database estate (Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL) for a merged company, responsible for immediate OS upgrades and long-term standardization.
Role type
Senior IC database platform engineer
Builds
Production database infrastructure (SQL Server on EC2, MySQL on RDS) and data standards
Domain
Financial technology / Cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Microsoft SQL Server administration, Windows Server administration, SQL Server upgrades, High availability (Always On, failover clustering), MySQL administration, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Data standards definition
Preferred skills
Snowflake administration, ETL pipelines (Rivery, dbt), Data warehouse design, Data lake management, BI/analytics tools (Metabase, QuickSight), Data governance
Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server, MySQL, AWS, Snowflake, Rivery, dbt, Metabase, QuickSight
Responsibilities
Perform time-critical OS upgrades for SQL Server, manage SQL Server installation and configuration on self-hosted EC2, administer MySQL on RDS, define and enforce data standards across engineering teams, review schema and data-access design
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC