Vice President, Oracle Database Administrator
Summary
Senior Oracle DBA role (VP title) on BNY's Production Services Infrastructure Support team in Lake Mary, FL: administering mission-critical Oracle environments (19c, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Multitenant, Exadata), running GoldenGate replication including to Snowflake, tuning performance, leading upgrades/DR, and automating with SQL, PL/SQL, and shell scripting.
We're seeking a Vice President, Production Services Infrastructure Support to join our Production Services Infrastructure Support team in Lake Mary, Florida.
In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
- Administer and support mission-critical Oracle Database environments, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability.
- Manage Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Multitenant (CDB/PDB), and Exadata platforms across production and non-production environments.
- Install, configure, administer, and support Oracle GoldenGate replication solutions, including heterogeneous replication to cloud platforms such as Snowflake.
- Monitor and troubleshoot database and replication issues, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and adherence to SLAs.
- Lead database upgrades, patching, migrations, cloning, and modernization initiatives.
- Perform performance analysis and tuning using AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Monitor, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Support disaster recovery planning, testing, switchover, failover, and failback activities for business-critical applications.
- Develop automation solutions using Shell scripting, SQL, and PL/SQL to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, cloud, and engineering teams to deliver resilient database solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor junior DBAs, and contribute to operational excellence initiatives.
To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of Oracle Database Administration experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Database 19c and related technologies, including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, and Multitenant architecture.
- Minimum 3+ years of Oracle GoldenGate administration experience, including implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and upgrade activities.
- Demonstrated experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical production systems in a 24x7 environment.
- Strong expertise in database performance tuning, SQL optimization, capacity planning, and root cause analysis.
- Experience with GoldenGate replication to cloud platforms, including Snowflake, is highly desirable.
- Experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure, and GoldenGate Microservices Architecture is preferred.
- Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripting, and automation best practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to participate in on-call support rotations and lead critical incident response activities.
- Oracle certifications (OCP and/or GoldenGate Certification) are preferred.