Data Engineering Manager (DBA)
Barclays · Posted Oct 13
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is hiring a Data Engineering Manager (DBA) in Bengaluru to support location strategy projects and evolve its digital landscape. The role focuses on Oracle database architecture and OCI cloud leadership, including RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, Exadata, Terraform, and CI/CD automation. The manager will lead database architecture strategy, high availability and disaster recovery design, migrations, security compliance, and mentor junior DBAs.
What you will do
- Define and lead database architecture strategy across on-prem and OCI environments
- Design high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures
- Drive cloud adoption and migration strategy (on-prem → OCI)
- Establish database standards, best practices, and governance frameworks
- Architect and manage: OCI DB Systems (Bare Metal / VM DB) Autonomous Databases (ATP, ADW) Exadata Cloud Service (preferred)
- Lead OCI landing zone design (networking, IAM, security architecture)
- Optimize cost, performance, and scalability in OCI environments
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform/OCI Resource Manager
- Lead advanced performance tuning and capacity planning
- Analyze AWR, ASH, ADDM reports for deep insights
- Design systems for high throughput, low latency, and scalability
- Implement partitioning, sharding, indexing, and workload management
- Architect and manage: Oracle RAC Data Guard (Active Data Guard) GoldenGate replication
- Design zero/near-zero downtime architectures
- Conduct DR drills, failover/failback testing
- Drive automation-first DBA practices
- Build frameworks using: Shell scripting / Python OCI CLI / SDK Terraform / Ansible
- Integrate database deployments into CI/CD pipelines
- Introduce self-healing and auto-scaling mechanisms
- Lead large-scale database migrations using: RMAN / Data Pump OCI Database Migration Service GoldenGate
- Modernize legacy databases to: Autonomous DB Cloud-native architectures
- Define and enforce enterprise-grade security architecture
- Implement: TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) Data masking, auditing, and access control
- Ensure compliance with standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS where applicable)
- Act as technical authority and escalation point for complex issues
- Mentor junior DBAs and lead cross-functional teams
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, and application teams
- Influence roadmaps and strategic decisions at leadership level
- Enterprise-level OCI database architecture blueprint
- Migration roadmap and execution plan
- Automated DBA frameworks (IaC + CI/CD)
- HA/DR design with tested failover scenarios
- Performance benchmarking and optimization reports
- Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
- Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
- Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
- Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Deep expertise in: RAC, ASM Data Guard, GoldenGate RMAN backup/recovery
- Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills
- OCI Cloud Expertise
- Hands-on experience designing and managing: OCI database services (DB Systems, Autonomous DB, Exadata) OCI Networking (VCN, DRG, Load Balancers) IAM and security models
- Experience with multi-region and hybrid cloud setups
- Strong scripting experience (Python, Shell)
- Expertise in: Terraform / OCI Resource Manager CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.) Git-based workflows
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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