Oracle Developer

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Oracle Developer at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
 
To be successful as a Oracle Developer you should have experience with:

• Experience as a Senior Level Database Administrator, with a focus on Oracle and similar database technologies such as PostgreSQL or MS-SQL.
• Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
• Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus,) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
• Experience in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
• Recognized as a Oracle subject matter expert, serving as the technical escalation for complex database issues.
• Proven experience in executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams
• Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
• Expert knowledge of database administration on Oracle.
• Expert in multiple versions of Oracle – 11g, 12c, 19c.
• Expert knowledge of RMAN, Dataguard, Database Performance Tuning, OEM, plus third-party products such as Imperva.
• Understand and meet the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
• Responsible for debugging the code in case any bug is reported in the Oracle product and fixing the infrastructure/database related issues.
• Hands-on as DevOps on Ansible, Python, PL SQL coding.
• Focus on resilience, scaling, reliability, uptime, and robustness.
• Strong technical skills in areas such as Oracle system administration, networking, cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring tools.
• Expert knowledge of Real Application Cluster with Maximum Availability setup.
• Must exhibit SME expertise in solving database contention, Performance Tuning problems (Slow sql response, slow database response etc).
• Database, RAC, OEM, OID installation, configuration and integration.
• Database Upgrade, Migration with ZDLR and Patching.
• Expertise in Goldengate configuration, troubleshooting.
• Database Security policies, fine grained auditing.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
 
This role is based in Pune.