Application Database Administrator

**Date live**:
05/29/2025
**Business Area**:
Global Payment Services
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000032871
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join us as an Application Database Administrator (Oracle, PostgreSQL) at Barclays, where you will be responsible for supporting the successful delivery of location strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
To be successful as an Application Database Administrator (Oracle, PostgreSQL) you should have experience in:
Sound exposure to work on Moderate to VLDB (Very Large Size Database)
Sound knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL RDBMS Architecture
Excellent knowledge on Oracle, Postgres SQL, PLSQL
Exposure to Oracle Golden Gate replication
Excellent knowledge on Oracle native utilities like Conventional export/import, Data pump export/import, SQL*Loader
Sound knowledge of database performance/SQL tuning and AWR
Working knowledge of Triggers, Package, Stored Procedures
Sound exposure to Physical data modelling
**Sound exposure to development tools**: SQL*Developer/ToAD/PLSQL Developer/pgAdmin
Sound exposure to database administration (managing users, tablespaces, profiles, resource groups, grants, etc)
Sound exposure to performance tunning
Exposure to JIRA, Any database source code version tool
**Domain skill**: Banking
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
Good technical exposure on AWS RDS, Oracle RAC
Unix, Shell scripting
Exposure to RMAN backup utility
Exposure to other database technologies like MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB is highly desirable
Preferred to have exposure to Jenkin
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based out of Pune.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.
Accountabilities
Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the ac