Junior Database Engineer

Job description

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

About Infrastructure Services
Infrastructure Services is an area that has a significant level of business and technology exposure and requires rapid, structured and creative thinking to support the dynamic needs of the business. Infrastructure Services are expected to own problems, to take responsibility for the systems and to share in the commitment across IT to deliver excellent service to the business. Whether it's designing resilient, scalable, low-latency solutions to support business applications, or providing an end to end service model for the delivery of external connections to a Barclays client and an exchange venue, or managing datacenter strategy - Infrastructure Services is constantly working to maintain the firm's competitive advantage in the industry.

About Platform as a Service – Oracle Database
The Oracle database team are responsible for the delivery and management of the Oracle Database estate within Barclays plc.

Overall purpose of role
The Junior Database Engineer will be a technical member of the global Oracle database team, utilising their scripting and infrastructure knowledge and experience to proactively define and develop the environment and automation toolset.

Key Accountabilities
The Junior Database Engineer reports into the Oracle Product Manager.
· Automate database installs, builds, patching and operational processes related to the Oracle database estate
· Adherence to Barclays standards for change control, database security and database patterns.
· Automate solutions for Service Improvement initiatives
· Engineer internal projects and deliveries aligned with the Database roadmap
· Knowledge of audit and control tools, techniques and practices.
· Identify new technologies and services to transform the database environment
· Handover solutions to the wider database teams

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

Work with Oracle Product Manager and Oracle Service Manager to ensure project delivery meets the estate requirements.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

· Take responsibility for completing tasks, focusing on requirements and planning to meet client needs, which the job holder helps to identify, advise and recommend technical solutions based on experience and Industry knowledge
· Strictly follow ITIL standards.
· Demonstrate ownership skills in handling issues.
· React quickly and as necessary to live systems errors and service problems to limit downtime and resolve the problem
· Support the implementation of strategy and policy issues by involvement in change and/or advise to other technical areas and makes recommendations to improve procedures and working practices
· Improve knowledge of the systems processes and technologies, infrastructure and service development processes, both current and emerging technology
· Interface with other areas sharing technical knowledge and expertise and resolving issues as necessary

To lead the resolution of issues on during delivery.

Risk and Control Objective

· Risk and Control: All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Person Specification
· knowledge of Oracle 11g or 12c
· Experience in defining technical plans and procedures
· being familiar with scripting and automation ( Python, SQL, Shell )
· general understanding of Linux as a database platform
· Knowledge of source code control systems ( e.g. BitBucket, GIT)
· general understanding of infrastructure components that underpin Oracle databases ( Servers, Operating systems, Storage and networks)
· being a team player and customer focused as well as having service minded attitude.


The Benefits: Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed.

Barclays values & Diversity
Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We'll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day. To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website www.barclays.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.