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Role Overview: As a member of Point72's Technology team, you will play a crucial role in reimagining the future of investing by constantly improving the company's IT infrastructure. You will be part of a team of experts who are dedicated to experimenting with new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions and embracing enterprise agile methodology. Point72 encourages professional development, ensuring that you bring innovative ideas to products while satisfying your intellectual curiosity. Key Responsibilities: - **Technical Leadership & Strategy:** Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance database solutions, set the technology roadmap, and drive innovation through the adoption of advanced analytics, automation, and emerging platforms. - **Operational Excellence:** Champion continuous database service availability by proactively managing risks, leading incident resolution, and leveraging monitoring tools to predict and prevent performance issues. - **Strategic Project Delivery:** Oversee complex migrations, modernization initiatives, and proofs of concept that align with enterprise architecture and deliver measurable business value. - **Security, Compliance & Risk Management:** Embed security by design, translate regulatory requirements into technical actions, and conduct rigorous risk assessments to maintain compliance and resilience. - **Stakeholder Engagement:** Act as the primary bridge between global technology governance and local business needs, influencing solution design and representing the region in global forums. - **Team Development & Culture:** Build a high-performance engineering culture by mentoring others, developing talent pipelines, and fostering collaboration and innovation. - **Continuous Improvement & Innovation:** Lead automation, data-driven optimization, and competitive benchmarking to continually enhance service quality and efficiency. Qualifications Required: - Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. - Minimum 10 years of experience in database management, with a focus on automation, standardization, monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and disaster recovery. - Strong expertise in leading database technologies, including PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, and MySQL. - Strong expertise in public cloud data/database services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, Snowflake, and MongoDB Atlas. - Extensive experience in database automation and self-service design and implementation. - Extensive experience in performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring/observability tools. - Strong expertise in database infrastructure stack including compute, storage, and networking requirements. - Strong expertise in clustering, replication, failover, backup/recovery strategies, disaster recovery, and geo-redundancy. - Strong ability to lead geographically dispersed technical teams, set vision, and inspire high performance. - Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. - Strong communication and collaboration abilities. - Strong root cause analysis and decision-making under pressure. - Certification in database management or related areas. - Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins). - Knowledge of big data technologies and frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark). - Commitment to the highest ethical standards.,
