Lead Database Administrator

Overview

Lead Database Administrator in Great Eastern plays a critical role in overseeing end to end management of large and diverse database environment supporting over 500 databases across multiple platforms including Oracle, ExaCC, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Yugabyte, MariaDB and on prem cloud based OCI. The role demands strong technical leadership, people management, strategic planning, stakeholder management and vendor coordination. To lead a team of DBAs, managing day to day database operations, planning enhancement to uplift performance, ensure compliance, safeguard the data by deploying relevant security measures to the core and supporting databases across the organization to achieve properly structured, optimally performing, stable, resilient and secure databases.

1) Technical Leadership and Team Management

• Lead and guide the DBA team on Day-to-Day operations and support multiplatform databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Yugabyte, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
• Serve as primary technical authority on database architecture, performance tuning, database recovery and automation related to database management
• Ensure compliance to patching and hardening to meet all the organizational and regulatory requirements
• Define clear objectives, conduct performance reviews, come up with skill building plans for the DBA team which consists of mid-level to senior DBAs
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, customer centricity and continuous improvement
• Able to resolve conflicts and ensure harmonious collaboration within and outside the team such as application team
• Drive database structural and tuning efficiency by working closely with application teams

2) Service Uptime and Availability and Security

3) Projects and Strategic Initiatives

4) Scripting and Automation

5) Embrace and Adopt AI based enhancements

6) Governance, Compliance and Risk and Audit

7) Stakeholder and vendor management

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Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

To all recruitment agencies : Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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