Verisk Analytics - Jersey City, NJ
posted 3 months ago
As a Database Engineering Manager at Verisk, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing a globally distributed team of database engineers. Your primary responsibility will be to provide hands-on management, mentoring, and coaching to your team while driving organizational goals. This position requires effective communication of relational database and NoSQL engineering principles, best practices, architecture solutions, and infrastructure requirements to the firm's leadership, internal customers, team members, and other stakeholders. You will lead the team in performing all aspects of NoSQL and relational database cluster administration, which includes planning, installation, upgrading, patching, security, high availability, resiliency, data retention, tuning, support, and troubleshooting. Your expertise will be crucial in driving the architecture of systems to provide a highly scalable and available relational and NoSQL database server structure that aligns with Verisk's value proposition for both internal and external customers. Collaboration is key in this role, as you will work closely with application development and other infrastructure teams to test, troubleshoot, and optimize new and existing database-driven applications. You will monitor production, UAT, and other NoSQL and relational database environments across all applicable regions, actively pursuing any issues that limit performance, resiliency, and scalability while fostering security and database reliability. In addition, you will engage with senior management, peers, and internal customers to plan and prioritize projects and resource allocation. Proactive communication of statuses, issues, and escalations to senior management and stakeholders will be essential to your success in this role.