Database Expert / DBA (permanent position)

Job ID: 26949 

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

Are you passionate about Data and Technology, and want to take the next step in your career? We are now looking for a motivated and dynamic person to join our CDW (Common Data Warehousing) AM Capability team in Nordea as Database Expert / DBA.

About this opportunity

Welcome to the Application Management team in Common Data Warehousing area. We are responsible for maintaining bank’s Common Data Warehousing solution using state of the art cloud solutions. We add value by providing expert application management capabilities and expertise in the data warehousing and data integration areas for many solutions in the bank based on cloud based technologies like Snowflake, and many other modern technologies. As Database Expert,  you’ll play a valuable role in taking part in an exciting and ambitious journey towards a modern, resilient target state.

What you’ll be doing:

• Create and manage all database objects
• Maintain and Deploy application codes.
• Hands  on Database Security Model (RBAC)
• Work on Data Masking Implementation & Support
• Access Management Users / Roles Management
• Monitor warehouse / storage usage
• Provide assistance to Users ,Mitigate performance issues
• Restore any data within time-travel period in snowflake
• Query Optimization for long running and impacting delivery
• Monitoring of CDW and related Semantic Layer flows
• Ad hoc User requests
• Support weekly, fortnightly and monthly patch releases to production
• Support and implement best practices for the application
• Discussion with stakeholders and dev community in various forums educating on snowflake best practices, attending project PIR’s, QRA’s, R2R’s and CAB meetings on regular basis
• Provide Operational support (incl. agreed on-call) for CDW & related Semantic Layer applications

You’ll join a team of experts with great experience and skills in the data ware housing and data integration area where we learn from each other and grow together as team and individuals. 

The team is primarily located in Gdynia / Gdańsk.

Who you are
 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us. 

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have good communication skills and are able to explain complex concepts in a clear and understandable way, and enjoys interacting with other people
• Are goal-oriented and takes responsibility for and focus on the big picture
• Are a quick learner that is interested in expanding your knowledge in the banking domain and all areas of software development.
• Should be expert in Snowflake Administration with Python knowledge
• Have experience in SQL Query optimization
• Have experience within databases(snowflake)
• Code deployments knowledge of Git hub and bitbucket, Jira.
• Handle all P2/P3 CDW Production issues/incidents/WO’s/CR tasks with zero escalations

Your experience and background:

• Professional experience working in Data Warehousing domain
• Professional experience working on Snowflake or as a DBA for relational databases
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices
• Excellent communication and analytical skills and ability to work well in a team environment
• A degree in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science or Information Systems

What we offer
 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.  

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility. 

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.
 

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges. 

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy. 

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. 

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think."

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 24/11/2024. We will ongoingly be reviewing applications and conducting interviews as we receive them, and might close the recruitment process before the posting end date. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application as soon as possible. Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving our customers and communities.

For candidates in Sweden: ​For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.

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