Senior Cloud SQL Administrator, Tangerine

Job description
Requisition ID: 228192

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

As Canada’s leading digital bank, Tangerine technology is at the heart of everything we do. We have redefined what digital banking is and we continue to evolve on what it can be, using technology to create innovative, forward thinking banking solutions with our clients’ needs in mind.
Are you ready to make the change and become part of an established disruptor with the backing of a highly engaged team? If so come join us and help redefine the Canadian banking landscape!

Reporting to the Director, Infrastructure Project Database Systems, you will design, install, monitor, maintain, and tune databases while ensuring high levels of data and system availability. You are also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software. You will be a part of a dedicated team of Database professionals in a flexible working environment, including flexible opportunities to work both remotely and in an office location. In this role, there are special working conditions, as required at times by project or business needs, which may include a range of circumstances, such as after-hours and weekend work; as well as providing rotational 24x7, on-call production support.

Is this role right for you?
• You are keen to assess and develop long-term strategic goals for databases in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
• You are willing to work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
• You excel at configuring designing database architecture to scale and adapt to changing Operational and platform technologies (e.g., automation, diverse platform, cloud, etc…)
• You are ready to plan and coordinate software patching and upgrades and facilitate data migrations between systems.
• You thrive at monitoring and tuning database operating parameters to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and availability.
• You take pride in responding to and resolve database access and performance issues.
• You are motivated to design, test, and implement backup and recovery strategies and contingency plans.
• You can implement corporate policy and audits; develop, publish, enforce, and maintain standards and procedures.
• You are eager to troubleshoot problems provide database problem resolution assistance to IT staff.
• You are comfortable Participating in a 24/7 after-hours Production Support rotation

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?
• You have 7+ years of experience as a SQL Server DBA
• You have gained 3+ years of SQL coding experience
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and administering highly available and resilient MS SQL Server database systems including hands-on experience with Always On Availability Groups and Disaster Recovery administration
• You have experience administering databases in on-premise, hosted, cloud, and hybrid platforms in a 24/7 real-time client-facing environment.
• You have deployed and administered SQL-Server administration in GCP or similar cloud platforms
• Experience migrating SQL Databases from on-premise to cloud platforms is a strong asset
• You are Expert at designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting database servers
• You have demonstrated ability in performance tuning and capacity management
• In an 24/7 Production environment, you have shown the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks independently
• You have strong problem solving skills and the ability to conduct research into database issues, standards and products as required
• You have completed a University or College Degree or equivalent experience

What's in it for you?
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. Read more