Senior Database Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer to play a key technical role within our Security Analytics and Reporting domain. This position focuses on designing optimizing and operating database-centric solutions.

The role is centred on a structured database environment that supports security reporting data correlation and operational insights. You will work closely with Security Engineers Analysts and Platform teams to ensure that security-related data is well-modelled performant and reliably accessible for analytics and reporting use cases.

This is a hands-on role with strong ownership of database design query performance and data integration from multiple upstream sources.

Your Key Tasks:

• Database Architecture & Design
  • Design and maintain robust database schemas optimized for reporting and analytical queries.
  • Ensure data models are scalable maintainable and aligned with security use cases.
• Performance & Optimization
  • Write review and optimize complex SQL queries.
  • Perform query tuning and database performance troubleshooting.
• Data Integration
  • Retrieve and integrate data from diverse sources including REST APIs into the database environment.
  • Ensure data consistency quality and reliability across datasets.
• Operational Ownership
  • Support database operations in Linux-based environments.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to ensure availability and access control.
• Collaboration & Guidance
  • Work closely with Security Engineers and Analysts to understand requirements and translate them into efficient data structures.
  • Contribute to best practices for database usage querying and documentation.

Qualifications :

For this senior-level position we expect:

• 810 years of relevant professional experience
• Strong expertise in database schema design optimization and SQL best practices
• Proven ability to write efficient complex SQL queries and perform query optimization
• Solid experience working with relational databases in analytics or reporting contexts
• Good working knowledge of Linux administration
• Strong Python skills particularly for retrieving and processing data from REST APIs
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools

Additional Information :

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire compensate and promote regardless of origin age gender identity sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time