About BNP Paribas Solutions - Philippines Branch

Established in 2024, BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch is a branch of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. We provide support services, back-office operations services related to or which further the accomplishment of the corporation’s investment services, banking transaction processing, and equity investment.

About Business line/Function:

The APAC IT Infrastructure & Production team is responsible in services & system deployment and maintenance & support by setting up Database infrastructure architecture in APAC Region.

Position Purpose

As a Senior Oracle Database Administration, you will primarily be involved in capacity planning, optimization & upgrade; configuration & customization; disaster recovery; and offshore disaster recovery strategy planning. You will maintain and participate in regional disaster recovery drills as needed. 

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end system performance tuning to help to improve the response time acceptable for clients
• Provide high quality, balanced analysis and advice on a range of issues of considerable complexity within a specified SLA
• Take principal responsibility for the identification of key methodological or process issues in the team.
• Critically evaluates solutions based on logical assumptions and factual information. You will recommend appropriate solutions as needed. 
• Participate in identification and root cause analysis of repeating problems and escalation to the responsible party for recovery and future prevention.
• Provide Incident troubleshooting and support for the Databases infrastructure, provide assistance to 2^nd level of support in cases of critical issues. 
• DB’s performance monitoring and fine-tuning, problem management and recovery, and provisioning & usage control.
• Lead and provide direction on infrastructure database crisis.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Must have:

• Must have at least 10 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administration professional. At least 5 years’ experience in a multi-disciplined IT environment with a strong background in Service Delivery, Production Operational Support. 
• Hands-on experience rewriting code, managing Oracle RAC, troubleshooting RAC performance issues and Oracle Golden Gate.
• Strong knowledge in Oracle Partitioning and Parallelism with experience in Data Warehouse Architectures.
• Strong background with ITIL framework (Incident Management, Change Management)
• Must have an understanding of Business Continuity requirements
• Expert in PL/SQL, Scripting and python scripts  
• Strong Linux OS system administration understanding 
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with fellow team members both regionally and local 

Good to have:

• Experience working in a multi-cultural environment (SG, HK, JP, FR, UK, IN) is a plus. 
• Background working in Corporate and Institutional Banking.