Cross-database Migration Subject Matter Expert

**Date live**:
06/26/2025
**Business Area**:
Global Payment Services
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000026059
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 a Cross-Database Migration Subject Matter Expert at Barclays, 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 a Cross-Database Migration Subject Matter Expert you should have experience with:
Excellent years of experience in database administration and migration, with at least few years in multi-database cross-platform migration projects.
Expertise in Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
Strong knowledge of cloud database services (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Cloud).
Experience with schema conversion, data replication, ETL, and performance tuning.
Proficiency in migration tools (AWS DMS, Ora2Pg, GoldenGate, SQL Server Replication, Liquibase).
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes for database automation.
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
**Certifications**: Preferred AWS/Azure/GCP Database Specialty, Oracle OCP, PostgreSQL Professional.
**Soft Skills**: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills for engaging with business and technical teams.
You may be assessed on the 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 in Pune.
Purpose of the role
To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.
Accountabilities
Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.
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