Lead Database Engineer

About the role

Amio Bank is looking for a Lead Database Engineer to manage and optimise its MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL systems, ensuring performance, security and availability while supporting business goals and compliance. The role also involves leading the database team and setting up standards and SLAs.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain all database environments built on MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Design, implement and optimise database solutions for high availability and performance.
• Develop, test and deploy data models, schemas, stored procedures and performance tuning strategies.
• Monitor databases, analyse performance metrics and troubleshoot issues.
• Lead database version upgrades, migrations and patch management.
• Ensure database security, backup, recovery and disaster recovery planning.
• Work with OLAP systems and complex analytical data processing environments.
• Establish database service SLAs and monitor operational reliability.
• Set and enforce database architecture standards, best practices and operational procedures.
• Mentor database engineers and provide guidance to engineering teams.
• Manage database capacity planning and scalability.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in database administration and engineering.
• Proven experience managing high-availability environments, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and database migrations.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, set standards and mentor team members.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Armenian and Russian; English is an advantage.

Required skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Database architecture, design, data modelling, query optimisation and performance tuning.
• OLAP systems, data warehousing and complex analytical data processing.
• Database monitoring, automation and scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Database security, access management and data protection.