Sr Database Development Lead
Motorola Solutions · Posted Oct 1
Mission-critical communications, command center software, and video security solutions for public safety and enterprise
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About the role
Motorola Solutions builds and connects technologies in communications, software, video and services that help public safety, government and enterprise customers work safely and more efficiently. The IT organization's Digital Program team delivers software and platform solutions that support these systems and their data. This Sr. Database Development Lead role involves interacting with business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, designing and leading database development for the Digital Transformation platform, and improving the reliability, performance and data integrity of large distributed applications and databases.
What you will do
- Interact with various IT and business stakeholders, teams to understand various applications and data flow.
- Identify business and IT needs and translate them into the technical and functional requirements.
- Develop software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications data
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions and associated data.
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continuous improvement
- Provide support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications and databases.
- Keep applications, software, hardware and databases up to date.
- Partner with development teams to deliver the planned deliverables
- Meet with IT leaders to discuss project goals, solution quality, schedule and progress, and the overall client relationship.
- Estimate the work required to implement a module of a project and its data needs.
- Test your work and review team members’ work and give constructive feedback on improvements.
- Serve as the technical lead on multiple active project initiatives.
- Assist in the creation of design documents and key artifacts for the project.
- Leverage internal tools, standards, and processes for the development work.
- Help peers and junior team members debug code or resolve technical problems.
- Drive client satisfaction through repeated project delivery successes and strategic engagement.
- Complex Issue Triage (Across multiple technology platforms and vendors)
- Database performance improvement and data cleanup
- Establish best practices for performance and stability
- Conduct monthly reviews to review trends and change recommendations
- Review and maintain list of corrective actions
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline.
- 9+ years of software development experience using PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL databases.
- Extensive RDBMS database working knowledge on DDL, DML SQLs, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, views development in various databases.
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
- Expertise in various DB administration and development tools such as Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Workbench, Oracle Toad, SQL Plus, pgAdmin4, Flyway, and DBeaver.
- Experience in developing, testing/debugging database scripts/jobs in e-Commerce, Services, finance, billing and payment, user and account management, insurance, banking domains.
- Experience in developing, testing/debugging various database objects.
- Hands-on experience of database migrations and upgrades.
- Familiarity with responsive design/development best practices.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS.
- Exposure to lead the software development team and mentor them to build a high performing team.
- Should be able to manage work independently.
- Must be familiar with various types of testing, defect prevention activities & Quality Management.
- Hands-on experience in various AI tools like GH Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Cursor, etc.
- Well aware of CI/CD processes and having experience using DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Git, Confluence, version control, etc.
Benefits and support
- Referral Payment Plan
About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions is a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, specializing in mission-critical communications, command center software, and video security solutions. The company empowers communities and organizations by building and connecting technologies that enhance safety, operational efficiency, and situational awareness worldwide. Formed as the legal successor to the original Motorola following its 2011 corporate split, Motorola Solutions serves government agencies, public safety departments, and commercial enterprises across more than 100 countries.
- Industry
- Telecommunications
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- September 25, 1928
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Ventures
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