Lead Database Administrator

Goodman Masson is partnering with a new financial markets infrastructure venture under formation in Oman. Backed by prominent institutional investors, the business is building a greenfield platform from the ground up, and is now hiring at the build stage. This is a rare chance to help stand up critical market infrastructure from a blank sheet and then run what you have built.The roleAs Lead Database Administrator you own the data layer the platform runs on: the databases holding the register of ownership, the transaction history, and the audit trail. The database is the authoritative record of who owns what, so its integrity, availability, and recoverability are the operational core of the business. In the build phase you design and stand up the database estate from a blank sheet. In the run phase you operate the estate and the team you have designed.What you will doDesign the database architecture from first principles: platform selection, schema and storage design, high availability, replication and clustering, backup and point-in-time recovery, and the security modelInstall, configure, and operate enterprise database platforms across the estate, and own build standards, patching, and version currencyOwn high availability and disaster recovery for the authoritative register, and prove failover and restore on a defined cycleOwn performance monitoring and tuning, SQL optimisation, and capacity planning across the settlement and registry lifecycleOwn database security in the first line: hardening, encryption, privileged access, and vulnerability managementDesign the run-phase operating model, author the runbooks, and build and lead the database team

What you will bringDegree in computer science or a related disciplineSix to ten years in database administration, with substantial time in large financial institutions such as banks or capital marketsStrong expertise across enterprise database platforms including Oracle and SQL Server, with PostgreSQL and or MySQLDeep expertise in backup and recovery, high availability, replication, and clusteringStrong performance tuning and SQL optimisationDirect experience of database security, access control, patching, and complianceLinux and Windows administration, and scripting with PowerShell, Bash, or PythonFluent English, written and spokenAlso of interestExperience administering the data estate of a financial market infrastructure such as a central securities depository, central counterparty, exchange, or settlement systemFamiliarity with the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, particularly the operational risk and resilience principlesCloud database exposure across Azure, AWS, or GCPRelevant certifications such as Oracle OCP, Microsoft Azure Database, or PostgreSQLExperience designing recovery time and recovery point objectives for a regulated platform