Role: Principal Database Platform Engineer
Location: Sheffield, UK (3 days weekly from office)
Duration: 6-12 Month (Extendable)
We are currently seeking an experienced Principal Engineer whose main area of expertise is Database but is complemented with strong engineering skills.
As a Principal Engineer you will be at the forefront of our technology, influencing the strategy and direction of our services. This is a leadership role where you will be responsible for driving technical excellence across a diverse set of tooling, mentoring, and developing a team of talented engineers, and ensuring that our services are designed and built with availability, resiliency, safety, and security, in mind. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver, our next generation of products and services that meet business needs.
✓ Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain the long-term strategy for database infrastructure, ensuring alignment with the bank’s overall IT and business strategies.
• Function as a subject matter expert and advisor on all matters related to database technologies, providing guidance to senior leadership and IT teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and technical specifications.
• Co-Lead the design and architecture of the bank’s shared database solutions (DBaaS/PaaS), followed by their implementation.
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies and advancements in engineering practices, evaluating and recommending innovative solutions as appropriate.
• Support the Platform Lead and identify solutions to engineering gaps/challenges.
• Facilitate development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps/challenges.
• Act as key point of contact for engineering decisions from a technical and risk perspective.
• Look to innovate/improve processes, reducing hand-offs and automate processes.
✓ Experience, Technical Skills and Qualifications Required:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position.
INTERNAL
• Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.
• Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design.
• Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code.
• Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.
• Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions.
• Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer
• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.
• Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate and convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience of evaluating multiple technology solutions in order to define and design best fit for a particular use case.
Databases The EI Database Platform team is looking to ramp up the delivery and adoption of on-prem DBaaS solutions for the four main database technologies by 2026. We’re already well-established with Oracle DBaaS (Exacc), making good progress with PostgreSQL on containers, and currently exploring options for SQL Server and MongoDB. I’m after a Platform Engineer with a proactive, hands-on approach to help co-design and drive the successful rollout of these platforms.