- Provide database design for applications to be developed by NeSL including core applications and related interfacing with external entities responsible for the design, security, performance and scalability of the database stack

- Responsible for management and administration of database platform in terms of high availability, DR replication, performance tuning, capacity planning etc.

- Ability to provide guidance to management on the emerging trends in database technologies, specifically open source databases

- Work with vendors and external solution providers to provide requirements including technical and architectural requirements, design, review work items and undertake acceptance testing

- Work with external IT organizations of various stake holders

Experience and Skills :

- Around 7 to 10 years of professional experience in MySql with a good track record.

- Strong proficiency with MySql and its variation among popular databases.

- Hands on experience in Data sharding, upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.

- Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases.

- Data modeling to visualize database structure.

- Working with application developers to create optimized queries.

- Experience in Designing and coding database tables to store the applications data

- Experience in developing stored procedures, and functions

- Experience in performance tuning, security and availability of databases

- Capable of configuring popular database engines and orchestrating clusters as necessary

- Capable of troubleshooting common database issues

- Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling server resource usage and optimizing it.

- Banking and Finance domain knowledge (desirable).

- Good communication with inter-personal skills.

- Ability to work both independently and as a team member.