Lead Progress Database Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Progress Database Engineer in Consumer Technology as part of Auto Lending. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex or critical database management initiatives that typically involve multiple disciplines and business groups, including database architecture, design, integration and data modeling
• Provide the highest technical expertise for the planning, research, design implementation, maintenance, and control of server class database
• Manage installation, patching, configuration, maintenance and baseline security of OpenEdge RDBMS databases
• Monitor and analyze OpenEdge database performance metrics using Virtual System Tables and PROMON utility tool to proactively address potential issues
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization of OpenEdge Advance Business Language (ABL) queries
• Develop and implement robust backup and recovery strategies with OpenEdge tool utilities
• Diagnose and resolve OpenEdge database related issues promptly, collaborating with cross functional teams when needed
• Design and certify next generation database technologies
• Implement and enforce security protocols for OpenEdge database, ensuring compliance industry standards and regulations.
• Influence OpenEdge database design decisions, offering insights into schema design and optimization to app dev partners.
• Provide technical leadership and recommendation into the future direction of database technology

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of Database Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4 years of strong experience with Open Edge Progress Database Administration
• 4 years of experience with AIX
• 4 years of experience with Cron scripts, Shell scripts, automation scripts

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive hands-on cross server/cross OpenEdge Database migrations
• Hands on experience on OpenEdge database audit and archival processes
• Extensive hands on experience with OpenEdge AfterImage Recovery to minimize data loss and downtime in critical scenarios
• Strong hands on Progress Application Server for Openedge (PASOE) configuration, managing ,maintenance and upgrade
• Strong expertise on business requirements , planning and design of NFRs to capture critical monitoring and observability for application, business process and microservices
• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering - Alerting, Auditability, Monitoring, Recoverability, Performance, etc.
• Hands on experience monitoring and ops analysis tools such as Splunk, Grafana.
• Experience utilizing scripting languages to automate routine tasks and streamline operational processes
• Well-versed with batch processing tools - (i.e., Autosys, Cron jobs)

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work outside of normal business hours on occasion as needed
• Position offers hybrid work schedule consisting of at least 3 days per week onsite

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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