Lead Database Administrator

Job description

Overview

Lead Database Administrator in Great Eastern plays a critical role in overseeing end to end management of large and diverse database environment supporting over 500 databases across multiple platforms including Oracle, ExaCC, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Yugabyte, MariaDB and on prem cloud based OCI.

The role demands strong technical leadership, people management, strategic planning, stakeholder management and vendor coordination.

To lead a team of DBAs, managing day to day database operations, planning enhancement to uplift performance, ensure compliance, safeguard the data by deploying relevant security measures to the core and supporting databases across the organization to achieve properly structured, optimally performing, stable, resilient and secure databases.

1) Technical Leadership and Team Management

• Lead and guide the DBA team on Day-to-Day operations and support multiplatform databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Yugabyte, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
• Serve as primary technical authority on database architecture, performance tuning, database recovery and automation related to database management
• Ensure compliance to patching and hardening to meet all the organizational and regulatory requirements
• Define clear objectives, conduct performance reviews, come up with skill building plans for the DBA team which consists of mid-level to senior DBAs
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, customer centricity and continuous improvement
• Able to resolve conflicts and ensure harmonious collaboration within and outside the team such as application team
• Drive database structural and tuning efficiency by working closely with application teams

2) Service Uptime and Availability and Security

• Ensure commitment to defined uptime SLA
• Ensure minimal disruption to business during planned activities by knowing how to leverage available technologies
• Database healthchecks are performed consistently in a planned manner
• Ensure all databases are patched/remediated in a timely manner to the required version for both functional and non functional patches with emphasis on Security patches and address all vulnerabilities received from Security team, to work very closely with Security team to ensure secure and robust database environments
• Ensure 24x7 availability of DBA for database recoverability purposes.
  
  Actively participate and be the key person in resolving DB related incidents
• Participate in key meetings called by Security, Service Management, inter teams discussions as necessary

3) Projects and Strategic Initiatives

• Lead and deliver critical database related projects such as version upgrades and migrations and capacity expansions
• Work very closely with Project and Solution team in projects and initiatives as required
• Plan and develop near and long-term roadmaps for database technologies aligned with Group IT strategies

4) Scripting and Automation

• Work closely with Tools and observability team on initiatives to drive automation across the database landscape
• Continuously work with Tools and automation team to ensure efficiency of the tools for proactive monitoring, timely alerting and reporting
• Evaluate the effectiveness of tools deployed across the database platform

5) Embrace and Adopt AI based enhancements

• Venture into Intelligent performance monitoring and optimization such as OEM with AI extensions to identify bottlenecks automatically instead to manually running AWRs, recommend other tuning such as indexing creation/removal, query tuning and partitioning, workload prediction
• Explore and identify AI driven governance and security

6) Governance, Compliance and Risk and Audit

• Ensure adherence to internal security policies and guidelines and external regulatory standards
• Adherence to change management policies and procedures, ensuring the DBA’s team compliance of the same
• Participate and front audits for database related audits, work closely with Risk & Compliance team to proactively manage audit, close findings and improve controls in a timely manner

7) Stakeholder and vendor management

• Act as primary person in charge for senior stakeholders regarding database health, strategy, incident and issues
• Collaborate with business partners, department heads, various tower leads, application portfolio directors as required
• Maintain good relationships with various vendors and database product vendors, ensuring SLAs and Contractual obligations are met.
  
  
• Collaborate at Group level as required, to receive and provide input with counterparts at the Bank
• Represent database domain in cross functional IT and business discussions

We are looking for people who

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer science, Information Technology or related fields
• Minimum 10-15+ years of experience of hands-on database administration with at least 5 years in leadership role
• Strong expertise in Database, mandatorily with Oracle 11g onwards, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle ExaCC, OCI, OEM, EBS, IBM DB2
• Postgres and Yugabytes will be an added advantage
• Oracle Certification is preferred such as OCP as well as any other certification on databases
• Excellent troubleshooting, performance tuning and incident recovery skills
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
  
  
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
  
  
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
  
  
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
  
  
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.
  
  

Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia.

With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers.

The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of AA- by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies.

Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932.

It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P.

Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.

Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees.

We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Required Skill Profession

It & Technology