Senior SQL Server Database Administrator

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem.  Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective.  Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day. 

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.  We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people.  Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job Information:

• Functional title: Vice President, SQL Server Database Administrator
• Department - Technology
• Corporate level - Vice President
• Report to - Director, Infrastructure DB Support
• Location - Iselin, NJ (Hybrid Onsite 2x per week)
• Expected full-time salary range between $ 140,000- $170,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.

Note: Disclosure as required by NY Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.

 

 

Job purpose

Provide lead support for the database team and operational support for the CLS internal Microsoft SQL database infrastructure and systems in the company’s 24x7 hosted environment. Provide remote and on-site support as part of the on-call support Rota. Work closely with other support teams to ensure that the database environments are fully supported and maintained in-order to meet the needs of the business. Oversee team resourcing, assign project work and provide technical leadership.

 

 

Essential Functions:

Strategic

• Ensure CLS internal database systems are managed to the highest standard by following industry best practice.
• Demonstrate leadership, inspire team members, create a positive and collaborative work environment, and demonstrate leadership by example.
• Identify database best practices to meet internal customer requirements that maximise the performance and reliability of the database management systems.
• Recommends performance and efficiency improvements for databases systems across the organisation
• Assists in the research and review of new database feature-functionality, supports proof-of-concept evaluations and enhancements to existing solutions.
• Demonstrate good problem management ownership and prevention of SLA breach under Incident / Problem Management processes.
• Actively contribute to the development of existing and new IT process and procedures to enhance service transition and service operation lifecycle stages.
• Demonstrate self-starter capabilities identifying areas of improvement and taking action in order to address.

 

Operational

• Provides Senior Operational Support for the Windows / SQL Server and Postgres database environment. Responsibilities include - Database monitoring, backup / restores, develop, and maintain daily automated checks/maintenance tasks, performance, and capacity management, creating optimisation plans and building new database instances, applying service packs and planning/performing database migrations. Manage and escalate as appropriate.
• Provides lead support for database team, managing team assignments, mentoring and developing database administrators. Provides technical leadership and represent team on design and solutioning meetings.
• Investigate and progress Incident, Service Request and Problem tickets. Manage and escalate as appropriate.
• Monitoring, Supporting, and deploying ETL jobs and SSIS packages.
• Configuring and managing RDS instances (AWS)
• Work with internal CLS teams (including ETL team and Quantitative Analysis Group) and external vendors to identify/propose solutions and support any fixes that are required as part of service improvement.
• Implements and maintains security policies and auditing compliance at the database level to ensure the protection of the firm’s sensitive data. Develops and adhe