Senior Vice President, Database Engineer

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Database Engineer to join our Structured Debt team. This role is in Pittsburgh, PA

You will lead the database strategy and engineering for high-volume, mission-critical financial systems, with a focus on Oracle security, encryption, cross-region replication, and fault tolerance. You’ll partner with application and platform teams to ensure data integrity, performance, and compliance, while modernizing our data ecosystem.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to impact on our organization in the following ways:

Architect and implement secure, scalable Oracle database solutions supporting high-throughput financial applications and reporting.
Design and manage cross-region replication and fault-tolerant configurations to achieve high availability and disaster resilience.
Enforce Oracle security best practices: encryption (TDE, data-at-rest/in-transit), access controls/least privilege, auditing, and compliance in secure environments.
Lead performance tuning and optimization: AWR analysis, TKPROF/SQL Trace, index strategy, partitioning, and query optimization.
Establish standards for versioned database development and change management; integrate schema migrations into CI/CD (e.g., Liquibase/Flyway).
Collaborate with engineering teams on data models, stored procedures, PL/SQL packages, and efficient data processing pipelines.
Implement robust monitoring and alerting for availability, performance, and replication lag; define database SLOs and error budgets.
Guide cloud and data platform integrations; experience with Snowflake or Databricks is a plus for analytical and batch workloads.
Maintain documentation and governance across environments; lead design reviews and drive remediation of technical debt.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.;9-11 years of experience in software development required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
Expert knowledge of Oracle database internals, PL/SQL, performance tuning, and operational excellence in secure, regulated environments.
Hands-on experience with Oracle encryption and access control; strong understanding of auditing and compliance requirements.
Proven design and operation of cross-region replication and fault-tolerant architectures.
Familiarity with CI/CD for database changes and versioned migrations; disciplined approach to rollback and recovery strategies.
Experience with Snowflake or Databricks is a plus, especially for analytical workloads and data engineering patterns.
Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills; ability to mentor teams and drive standards across applications.

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BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.”

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