Lead DBA

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced DBA Lead to manage a small global team responsible for supporting and optimizing our database environments. You will play a critical role in shaping the future of our database strategy and driving continuous improvement across our global platforms. This role combines leadership hands-on database administration and development expertise. You will oversee operations for PostgreSQL on AWS RDS Aurora and Microsoft SQL Server on Azure VMs ensuring high availability performance and security across our platforms.

As part of a software organization serving predominantly financial services clients you will play a critical role in maintaining compliance scalability security and reliability of our data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise proven leadership experience and a passion for continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Team Management:
Lead and mentor a small global team of DBAs fostering collaboration and professional growth.
Coordinate workload distribution set priorities and ensure timely delivery of database-related tasks.
Vendor and license management including a partner company providing 24x7 Database Monitoring and Support.

Database & Server lifecycle management:
Oversee the administration of SQL and NoSQL database platforms including PostgreSQL (AWS RDS Aurora) Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB.
Ensure high availability performance optimization backup/recovery processes and disaster recovery planning.
Implement and maintain robust security and compliance standards.
Planning and execution of database migration projects.

Platform Engineering & Automation:
Work closely with development teams to design efficient schemas optimize queries and stored procedures and champion automation across deployments monitoring and operational workflows.
Improve and refine CI/CD practices to streamline database change automation and integration with end-to-end application delivery.

Strategic & Operational Excellence:
Define and enforce best practices for database architecture performance and scalability across teams.
Evaluate and implement new database technologies and tools to improve efficiency.
Act as a point of escalation for complex database issues and provide expert guidance.

Required Skills Experience and Qualifications:

Proven experience as a Database Administrator and Team Lead in a global or distributed environment.
Strong expertise in PostgreSQL (AWS RDS Aurora) and MS SQL Server (Azure VMs) including Clustering and Always On.
Hands-on experience with database development including schema design query optimization and stored procedures.
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and integration of database changes into automated pipelines.
Solid understanding of high availability disaster recovery and performance tuning strategies.
Excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.
Knowledge of additional database technologies (e.g. MySQL Oracle NoSQL).
Exposure to cloud-native architectures DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code.
Exposure to Datadog for Database Monitoring.

About us

Were a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software high-value analytics and strategic consulting to corporations central banks financial institutions and governments. Founded in 1999 weve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

Over 2000 of the worlds leading corporations including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the worlds central banks trust ION solutions to manage their cash in-house banking commodity supply chain trading and risk.

Over 800 of the worlds leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the worlds financial market infrastructure.

ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe. Our ever-expanding global footprint cutting edge products and over 40000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.

ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities abilities cultures and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

The Role:We are seeking an experienced DBA Lead to manage a small global team responsible for supporting and optimizing our database environments. You will play a critical role in shaping the future of our database strategy and driving continuous improvement across our global platforms. This role co...