Added: 2025-05-18 13:55.00
Updated: 2025-05-22 03:54.04

Senior Database Specialist

Bioggio , Ticino, Switzerland

Type: n/a

Category: IT & Internet & Media

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Requirements: English
Company: Avaloq Group AG
Region: Bioggio , Ticino

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research-led approach and continual innovation are powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the worlds leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive, and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

The Database Competence Center covers all DBA technologies. We are responsible for the 24 x 7 operations for major regional and global banks.

Your key tasks

  1. Create and maintain all databases required for development, testing, education, and production usage on different Unix and Linux platforms.
  2. Perform capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases.
  3. Perform ongoing tuning of the database instances.
  4. Install & evaluate new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database.
  5. Plan and implement backup and recovery of the Oracle database.
  6. Control migrations of programs, database changes, reference data changes, and menu changes through the development lifecycle.
  7. Implement and enforce security for all Oracle Databases.
  8. Perform database re-organizations as required to assist performance and ensure maximum uptime of the database.
  9. Put standards in place to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security, and performance.
  10. Support and perform migration into the Oracle Cloud or other cloud providers.
  11. Provide technical support to application development teams.
  12. Assist with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.
  13. Troubleshoot problems regarding the databases, applications, and development tools.
  14. Ensure all relevant support documentation is up to date and ready for review and audit.
  15. Declare infrastructure components in Terraform for Oracle OCI, GCP, AWS, MS Azure, and the private cloud of our service provider.
  16. Use current technologies and tools for continuous improvement and automation development of system operations and processes.
  17. Set up, operate, monitor, and maintain systems for the realization of the offered services.

Qualifications

  1. 5+ years of solid Oracle DBA experience.
  2. Experience in Oracle Cloud (OCI).
  3. Experience in implementing and operating Oracle databases in Unix systems (AIX, Linux).
  4. Good knowledge of shell script programming.
  5. Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, git).
  6. Strong experience with CI/CD.

It would be a real bonus if you have

  1. MSSQL DBA experience.
  2. Exadata and RAC experience.
  3. Oracle APEX experience.
  4. Proven coding know-how.

Additional Information

We realize that managing work-life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives, and to support this, we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work-life balance and continue our fantastic culture in our global offices.

At Avaloq, we are proud to embrace diversity and understand that the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions. We are wholeheartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and an inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate, and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other traits that make us all unique. We have written this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please note that we will not accept speculative CV submissions from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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