Sr Lead - Database Development

Northern Trust

Full-time Computer Occupations
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Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted
June 05, 2026

Job Description

1. Primary DBA Ownership (Core Accountability)

β€’ Act as the primary DBA for all Data Protection databases across production, UAT, and development environments.

β€’ Own database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.

β€’ Serve as final technical escalation for database incidents, outages, and data integrity issues.

β€’ Define and enforce DBA standards, operational guardrails, and support models.


2.Database Architecture & Engineering

β€’ Design, build, and maintain enterprise grade SQL Server databases (on premise and cloud, including Azure SQL Managed Instance).

β€’ Own physical and logical database design, including:

o Schema design

o Indexing strategies

o Partitioning

o Performance tuning

β€’ Lead database strategy for new Data Protection services, integrations, and platform migrations.

β€’ Govern schema evolution to ensure backward compatibi...