Senior Supervisor, Database Administration

About the role

The Senior Supervisor, Database Administration is responsible for the day‑to‑day administration, availability, performance, security, resilience and lifecycle management of the bank’s database environments. The role ensures that critical banking applications, digital banking services and reporting systems run on reliable and secure database platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise administration, maintenance, monitoring and support of the bank’s database platforms and related infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, stability and optimal performance of databases supporting critical banking systems.
• Manage Oracle environments including RAC, Data Guard, Exadata and ODA.
• Administer relational and non‑relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB.
• Establish and maintain database administration standards, procedures, technical guidelines and operational runbooks.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations and provisioning across Development, UAT, DR and Production.
• Coordinate database changes with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity and business teams following change‑management procedures.
• Monitor health, resource utilization and performance; conduct SQL tuning and capacity planning.
• Design, implement and regularly test high‑availability, backup and disaster‑recovery solutions.

Required profile

• Provide technical leadership to the Database Administration team.
• Collaborate closely with IT Infrastructure, Application Development, Cybersecurity, IT Governance, Risk, Internal Audit, vendors and business stakeholders.

Required skills

• Oracle Database (RAC, Data Guard, Exadata, ODA).
• Microsoft SQL Server.
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB.
• SQL performance tuning and query optimization.
• Backup, recovery, high‑availability and disaster‑recovery design and testing.
• Capacity planning and performance monitoring.