About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary :
We’re looking for a Highly skilled Database Engineer who brings expertise knowledge in Oracle database along with APEX development skills. You’ll help lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle of mission-critical DATABASE platforms (Oracle19c, Oracle APEX, OCI) and services, while contributing to engineering tools, Project workflows, hybrid cloud strategies with an automation mindset. This is a key role in a high-trust team that powers secure, compliant 
infrastructure for a global financial institution. Expect deep technical challenges, high visibility, and opportunities to influence platform direction.

Preferred Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years of experience in administrating medium to large databases in complex 
enterpriseenvironments.
Familiarity with Oracle DBA engineering and APEX development activities.
Experience in financial services or other highly regulated sectors.
Exposure to multi cloud strategy.

Key Responsibilities and Required Skills:
Experience with management of Oracle Databases
Experience with Oracle 11g, 12c, 19c, Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard.
Oracle APEX development and deployment Knowledge.
Experience with Oracle Multitenant (Containers and Pluggable databases), in addition to its features such asHybrid Columnar Compression.
Knowledge of Oracle engineered (Exadata) hardware platforms, networking, storage and subsystems.
Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
Experience with Installation/Upgrade/Patching of database software and related Exadata tasks.
Experience with backup/recovery design, DR implementation, monitoring implementation, 
performance tuning and optimization.
Experience with storage management, provisioning, and optimization.
Deep experience with the Linux operating system and shell scripting.
Good understanding of fundamental technologies like TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, Load balancer, NFS.

Experience working within a project management processes:
Partner with business, technical, and application partners to discuss the project requirements and to help plan and develop solutions for the Oracle Database architecture.
Ability to plan and complete projects based on high-level requirements with inimal or no guidance.
Methodical and accurate while delivering tasks, working within project deadlines.
Systematic approach to identifying issues and pursuing paths to resolution.
Experience installing and building new solutions or improving existing applications.
Participate in the design, configuration and implementation of secure and scalable enterprise Oracle 19c RDBMs.
Plan, coordinate and implement security measures (Encryption) to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.

Competencies:
Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritization and a pragmatic approach.
Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
Good communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both inwriting and verbally.
Ability to think strategically and evaluate options in the short, medium and long term. 
Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.

Additional Skills a Plus:
Experience with Golden Gate.
Experience with Delphix.
Knowledge of Oracle In Memory database.
Encryption technologies and experience a plus.
Understanding and execution of the IT processes of Incident Management, Problem.
Management, Change Management, and Configuration Management (Service Now).

Monitoring, Reliability & Incident Response
Integrate systems with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, OEM, and custom health scripts.
Support alerting, auto-remediation, and telemetry for performance and availability.
Participate in on-call rotations, DR testing, and RCA for high-impact incidents.

Soft Skills:
Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable in fast-moving, audit-heavy environments.
Diligent with ability to cross check / robust validation of outcomes and results.
Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration and contribution skills.
Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead by example in engineering practices and professionalism.
 

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.