Database Engineering Manager

About the position

We are looking for a leading technical contributor to enhance and maintain one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as part of an agile scrum team. This role involves providing engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River. The team you will be joining is part of Charles River Development (CRD), which became a part of State Street in 2018. CRD creates enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in institutional investment, wealth management, and hedge funds. Together, we have created the first open front-to-back platform - State Street Alpha, launched in 2019. Join us if delivering next-generation infrastructure using emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain sounds like a challenge you are up for.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of database engineers to deliver high-quality and performant database solutions.
• Provide technical guidance, training, and professional development opportunities for team members.
• Drive the Agile process and create a culture of continuous improvement of processes and methodologies through the engineering organization.
• Fulfill the Scrum Master role by leading the team in their Agile development process and fostering a strong continuous improvement culture.
• Lead efforts to develop and design database architecture to support Charles River applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability.
• Create strategic planning for scalable database solutions to support cloud architecture and microservices.
• Collaborate with system and software architects to set standards for operations, programming, security, and deployment of the databases.
• Oversee data model review processes to ensure data model consistency and accuracy across business applications.
• Establish and enforce database security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and data masking that ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
• Design and develop high availability, robust disaster recovery, and data purging and backup strategies.
• Lead efforts to optimize performance through indexing, SQL query optimization, and other database tuning techniques.
• Monitor database performance metrics, analyze and identify bottlenecks, and recommend short-term and long-term solutions.
• Define performance test strategy and develop toolsets to generate synthetic datasets for effective and repeatable performance tests.
• Work with engineering, SaaS Operation, support, and Implementation teams to provide technical support to current customers.
• Support the sales organization and assist in the execution of PoCs for prospective customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of database systems.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in RDBMS and distributed data platform as a database engineering manager.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues.
• Proficiency in SQL and database design principles.
• Experience with cloud database services or NoSQL databases.
• Programming experience in Java, C++, C#, JDBC, Spring Boot, and Microservices is a plus.
• Experience with developing applications for the financial markets is a plus (Fixed Income, Trading, FX, Risk, Portfolio/Wealth Management, Market Data, FIX, etc.).
• 10+ years of experience as a Database Architect or in a similar role supporting enterprise applications with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a supervisory role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master’s degree is a plus.
• Proven experience with major relational databases such as MS SQL Server or Oracle, hardware sizing and configuration, operating systems, scripting, and database technologies.
• Strong understanding of database security best practices and data protection regulations.
• Ability to coordinate and lead cross-functional and organizational activities.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to clearly and succinctly summarize results for upper management.
• Demonstrated experience with project planning and backlog management.
• A minimum of 7 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired.

Benefits

• Generous medical care, insurance, and savings plans.
• Flexible Work Program to help match your needs.
• Development programs and educational support.