Senior PostgreSQL & Oracle Developer

Project description - VR 121382

Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients.

You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.

On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Database Engineer to join our technology team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the migration and optimization of our Client's application database schemas. This role is essential in ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of our Client's database environment, as they transition from on-premises Oracle databases to a cloud-based PostgreSQL infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in working with the database, a deep understanding of cloud database technologies, and a collaborative mindset to work effectively with our Client's DevOps and application development teams.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Migration

Take a significant part of the planned migration of our Client's database environment from Oracle to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

Develop and implement migration strategies, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime.

Collaboration and Process Improvement

Employ a range of techniques to analyze problems and evaluate multiple solutions against engineering, business & strategic criteria

Collaborate to achieve consensus on topics and issues and contribute to communities

Identify and resolve barriers to business deliveries implementing solutions which iteratively deliver value

Design solutions using common design patterns with a range of design tools & techniques

Conduct peer reviews to ensure designs are fit for purpose, extensible & re-usable

Deliver end-to-end first-class engineering solutions across a range of technology platforms

Improve delivery standards, working practices, tools & solutions and driving adoption of automation tools

Ensure stable and reliable production environments and high-quality service delivery to customers

Investigate production incidents & lead remediation, analyze services & components

Design & build solutions which are secure & controlled

Investigate & report on issues and potential risk events within designs and solutions Skills

Must have

Excellent technical skills in PostgreSQL

Strong understanding of relational databases

Ability to design and develop application/components including packages, store procedures, functions, triggers

Experience in working with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Shell scripting

Proficiency in data modelling and database design

Open to learn Google Cloud technologies

Data analysis general skills

Analytical thinker experienced in a range of problem-solving techniques & approaches

Team player who shares and collaborates, a keen listener and quick learner

Communicates clearly and influences using coherent, fact and benefit-based proposals

Enables experimentation and fast learning approaches to creating business solutions

Understands key elements of security, risk & control Nice to have

Experience in banking projects

Experience with Agile development environment