Database Administration Manager, Kraków

OANDA is a global leader in online multi-asset trading services, currency data, corporate payments and FX services.

Everyone at OANDA is focused on our vision to transform how our customers can meet all their currency needs. From our roots in 1996 that provided free currency exchange information to launching a multi-award winning global FX and CFD trading business to our recent new venture of money transfer. OANDA is now a major global player.

Join us and: 

• Work on an award-winning platform that processes billions of dollars every day.
• Be on a team that’s responsible for company-wide top priority projects.
• Deliver reliable software on an agile team striving for continuous integration, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Contribute innovative ideas to improve the daily trading experience of thousands of customers.
• Improve yourself and your team through education and continuous learning.

Production Engineering team is looking for a passionate DBA Manager to lead a team of talented engineers to apply database development principles and practices to solve difficult operations problems. As an DBA Manager, you will be leading the relationship with our development teams, acting as the champion for reliability best-practices including observability, automation, high-availability, fault tolerance, and data lifecycle ownership. The perfect candidate for this role has a strong data-driven approach improving the performance of our products in on-premise and cloud environments.

• Champion a culture of shared data ownership across Production Engineering and Software Development teams into your passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation, and lead the adoption of automation, infrastructure as code, and configuration management tools in data and database management
• Lead modernization initiatives to push data warehouse towards best-in-class resilient distributed solution
• Contribute to approval process for database specifications to ensure all agreed standards and protocols are followed and data integrity is preserved
• Recommend technical developments to improve quality of the company applications software and supporting infrastructure to better meet company needs
• Conduct feasibility study and install and test complex databases and associated products to ensure they are suitable for use and meet company requirements
• Implement and provide input on the design of security measures to ensure required security standards; monitor database performance to notify security experts of any problems
• Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals
• Manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports team members and hold them accountable for achieving these, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team / personal objectives.
• Deploy a team of database engineers to development teams to champion best practices and to ensure our products are designed for reliability and high availability
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to set and maintain Service level Objectives (SLOs) and metrics that are representative of our customer experience
• Develop, manage and support a highly-skilled technical team in our offices around the globe (we can run follow-the-sun rotations!). Set priorities, mentor, direct professional growth, and lead implementation of new technologies and methodologies
• Attend and contribute to continuing education, conferences, and seminars to stay current with industry and community trends
• Enable the organization to make data-driven decisions by pushing monitoring, instrumentation, and observability as core tenets of our development practice.
• Set a great example and encourage others to espouse the culture and values of the company to other internal teams and the general public

Experience & Skills:

• Experience as a dedicated technical people leader
• Experience as an individual contributor in a related role: DBA, engineering, development, operations, site reliability engineering, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to manage large cross-functional projects, including establishment of goals (both financial and non-financial), scope, and strategy; ability to plan, organize, coordinate and implement strategic initiatives
• The best candidates will have both cloud-native experience, and strong on-premise, bare metal expertise

OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. 

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.