• Job Description

  Req#: 90317260

  Oracle Database Performance Specialist
  Knutsford

  As a Barclays Oracle Database Performance Specialist, you will work within the Database team to act as a central role to ensure Service is maintained to our Risk, Finance Treasury (RFT) Business Unit and application teams we underpin. This is an exciting opportunity working on Relational database platform technologies, being able to performance tune and pin point capacity issues across on premise and into public cloud. This role will support many strategic decisions and work with a wide range of Stakeholders in Barclays.

  Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

  Hybrid Working
  We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances
  Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

  What will you be doing?
  • Acting as a central contact for Risk, Finance Treasury (RFT) database performance, mentoring junior team members, and supporting stakeholders of the team
  • Leading on the performance and configuration analysis of databases supporting critical RFT applications, recommending enhancements / changes to improve database performance
  • Support the detailed database design and configuration for new or changed applications, partnering with RFT projects
  • You will support RFT database version upgrades including reducing database technical debt
  • Partnering with Database Product Management, proactively influence GTIS Database Service Offerings and Roadmaps, based on RFT strategy and requirements
  • Ensuring Issues / Actions are owned and managed, and interface into the Product and Change teams to ensure issues are resolved

  What we’re looking for:
  • Experience with Oracle 11g, 12.1, 12.2 and 19c, with specific experience and strength in features, usage of AWR/ASH Reports, optimisation and performance tuning
  • Good knowledge and ability to troubleshoot performance problems in database design/database code (PL-SQL)
  • Ability to identify and help troubleshoot/collaborate performance problems at the database/host/environment level (storage, OS, network and other layers)
  • Able to drive/identify best practices and share/document and guide technical resources on the specifics to help improve the estate

  Skills that will help you in the role:
  • Proven track record of tracking project/engagement delivery with multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to summarise/present progress on complex problems to management
  • Understanding of development practices, patterns and architectures
  • Ability to engage and explain problems to technical colleagues, and leadership, to drive improvements

  Where will you be working?
  You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

  Working Flexibly
  We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

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