Principal Database Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by PRACYVA
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Principal Database Engineer role requires over 10 years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior or principal position. The candidate must possess technical proficiency in various database technologies and demonstrate strong leadership skills in managing enterprise-level projects. The position involves collaboration with engineers and stakeholders to drive the direction of platforms and services while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead large, enterprise-level projects and deliver quality solutions.
- Utilize technical proficiency in database technologies, including relational, NoSQL, and distributed SQL.
- Perform infrastructure performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Implement microservices, infrastructure automation, and API development.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Evaluate multiple technology solutions to define the best fit for specific use cases.
- Communicate complex technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to guide platform and service direction.
- Ensure familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior or principal engineering position.
- Technical proficiency in database technologies and infrastructure components.
- Strong understanding of consumer use cases and database infrastructure capabilities.
- Experience in microservices, software development, and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps capabilities.
- Strong technical leadership and team-building skills.
- Ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
- Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical information.
- Experience in evaluating technology solutions for specific use cases.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Required:
- 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.