Principal Oracle Database Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

The Impact you will have in this role:

Seeking an experienced Principal Oracle Database Engineer with proven leadership in managing distributed teams, along with strong hands-on expertise in Oracle technologies across on-premises and AWS cloud environments, including RAC, Exadata, Data Guard, GoldenGate, RDS for Oracle, Oracle Database on AWS, and ZDLRA. The ideal candidate will also possess strong scripting skills in at least one programming language, with a demonstrated automation-first mindset.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead adistributed DBA engineering team(multiple direct reports)
• Operational leaderfor Database Engineering (incidents, escalations, stability)
• Serve as theday-to-day operations lead for Database Engineering
• Own and manageproduction escalations, major incidents, and resolution coordination
• Supportongoing delivery, releases, and engineering initiatives
• Resolvecomplex issues involving multiple dependencies
• Architect, design, and implement Oracle databases on AWS RDSto ensure data integrity, security, and nearcontinuous availability for critical financial applications
• Perform database migrationsfrom onpremises Oracle platforms toAWS RDS, ensuring performance, resiliency, and compliance postmigration
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performanceusing AWR/ASH, RDS Performance Insights, CloudWatch, and OEM to meet Tier0/Tier1 SLAs
• Supporting applications usingData guard,RAC,andGoldengatemicroservices.
• Develop, review, and optimize database codeincluding PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, materialized views, and complex SQL
• Implement and maintain database security controls, including encryption (TDE), data masking, redaction, finegrained auditing, and access governance.
• Design and support disaster recovery solutionsusing RDS automated backups, snapshots, MultiAZ, and crossregion strategies.
• Participate inproduction support, oncall rotations, and incident escalationsto meet enterprise SLAs.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12+ years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Handson experience withAWS RDS for Oracle, Oracle Database on AWSand AWS services (CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, S3, EBS, EC2)
• Strong knowledge ofPL/SQL coding standards, performance tuning, and database internals
• Experience withOEM, Grafana, Goldengateand related database tooling
• Familiarity withAgile development methodologiesand DevOps collaboration models
• Experience withCI/CD pipelinesusing Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, and Jira
• Proficiency inscripting and automation(Shell, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Solid understanding ofdata modeling, schema design, and performancedriven architecture
• Deep expertise in Oracle RAC, Exadata, DataGuard and Oracle ZDLRA.
• Strong analytical, problemsolving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.