Position Summary
Assured Guaranty is seeking a database engineer to be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining modern database systems to ensure their optimal performance, security, governance, and reliability. They will work closely with other teams to understand data requirements and develop solutions that meet business needs.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain database solutions using MongoDB, Snowflake, and Confluent Kafka.
- Design, implement, and maintain reporting platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Sigma
- Design, implement, and maintain data caching solutions such as Redis / ElastCache
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security of database systems.
- Monitor and optimize database performance, including query tuning and indexing.
- Develop and maintain database backup and recovery procedures.Collaborate with development teams to design and implement data models and database schemas.
- Manage database access and security, including user roles and permissions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues and provide technical support.
- Implement and manage Business Continuity Planning (BCP) to ensure database systems are resilient and can recover from disruptions.
- Oversee Change Management processes using ServiceNow to ensure smooth and controlled changes to database systems.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines using Harness or other similar tools to automate database deployments and updates.
- Stay up to date with the latest database technologies and best practices.
- Participate in on-call rotation for database support.
- Contribute to standards related to the adoption, implementation, and use of database technologies. This includes security, identity and access management, compliance, cost management, license management, performance management and monitoring.
- Work closely with IT security to ensure the adoption of database resources aligns with the company’s security posture.
Candidate Background & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is required
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in similar role
- Practical work experience in IDLC processes such as Incident, Problem and Change Management.
- Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Proven experience as a DBA with expertise in MongoDB, Snowflake, and Confluent Kafka.
- Strong understanding of database design, architecture, and performance optimization.
- Experience with database backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Proficiency in SQL and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Experience with cloud-based database solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETL processes, data streaming.
Compensation
Annual base salary for the position is expected to be from $130,000 per year to $160,000 per year. The actual salary will depend on various factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience and credentials, salary expectations of applicable candidates, and other applicable market conditions. This position also provides applicable employee benefits, as well as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
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What We Do
Assured Guaranty is the leading provider of financial guaranty insurance. We guarantee timely payment of scheduled principal and interest when due on municipal, public infrastructure and structured financings. Issuers use our financial guarantees to lower their cost of funds, broaden distribution and diversify funding sources. For more than three decades, our insurance subsidiaries have helped to lower the cost of borrowing for municipalities and other issuers across the United States by guaranteeing a wide range of tax-exempt and taxable, investment-grade, municipal bonds that are supported by either tax revenues or revenues from essential public projects or services. From schools to clean water, from transportation projects to hospitals and more, we help municipalities build sustainable public infrastructure and better serve their residents, including their underserved and at-risk communities.
We are also active in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and other developed countries, where we guarantee public-private partnership, local authority and regulated utility financings. In structured finance, globally, we guarantee asset securitizations and craft custom applications of our guarantees to assist our institutional clients in managing their portfolio risk and capital. For investors, our value proposition includes not only the security of our unconditional, irrevocable guaranty but also our experienced credit selection, underwriting and surveillance. Our business model has proven its resilience through multiple business cycles, and we have demonstrated our commitment to maintaining the financial strength to protect our policyholders for the life of their insured investments.
In addition, our subsidiary Assured Investment Management LLC provides alternative investment management and advisory services to institutional and other qualified investors through our investment arm and offers a variety of credit-focused strategies and structured finance solutions.
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