AVP, Database Engineer | Banking

Our global investment bank client is looking for a high calibre to join their database team as a AVP Database Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate resilient enterprise database platforms with a focus on availability, performance, and security.
• Continuously monitor and fine-tune database environments, performing capacity forecasting to support business growth.
• Design, execute, and validate backup, recovery, and disaster resilience solutions to protect critical data assets.
• Plan and deliver database upgrades, patches, and migrations, including remediation of aging platforms and technologies.
• Apply strong security controls, access management, and compliance practices aligned with internal and regulatory standards.
• Diagnose and resolve complex database incidents, providing senior-level escalation and root-cause analysis.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, cloud, and platform teams to enable stable and scalable solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to projects and stakeholders, translating functional needs into effective database designs.
• Drive automation, standardization, and documentation to improve operational efficiency.
• Participate in on-call support and conduct regional DR/BCP exercises to ensure service continuity.

Key Requirements

• Extensive experience managing enterprise databases such as Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL platforms.
• Strong background in performance optimization, high availability, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Hands-on experience supporting databases across Linux and Windows environments.
• Exposure to virtualization, cloud platforms, and container-based ecosystems is advantageous.
• Ability to automate administrative tasks using scripting and orchestration tools.
• Proven troubleshooting skills for business-critical systems under pressure.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.

“Sanderson-iKas” is the brand name for the following companies incorporated in Hong Kong: Sanderson Solutions International (Hong Kong) Limited (Business Registration no.53741924) and iKas International (Asia) Limited (Business Registration no.39818987)

Website: www.sanderson-ikas.hk