WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

 Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

 We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that powers the technology behind one of Singapore’s longest established banks. As a Database Engineer at OCBC, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our systems and infrastructure are secure, efficient, and always available. You’ll be part of a team that’s driving innovation and transformation in the banking industry.

How you succeed
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology trends and advancements. You’ll work closely with our technology teams to design, implement, and maintain our infrastructure, ensuring it’s aligned with our business goals and objectives. You’ll need to be proactive, collaborative, and always looking for ways to improve our systems and processes.

What you do

• Manage databases by administering, installing, configuring, upgrading, and patching.

• Monitor and optimize database performance, utilizing advanced skills in database tool usage including capacity planning with a detailed analysis and recommendation.

• Perform database backup and complex recovery.

• Perform strong troubleshooting, diagnosing and recovery from complex database issues.

• Automate routine tasks using scripts and open-source tools.

• Provide strong technical assistance and advice to application teams. 

• Co-ordinate with internal IT and escalate to vendors for timely response/recovery.

• Gather requirements, design business and technical aspects, develop, test, implement, and write queries, stored procedures, and automation scripts for various database technologies.

Who you are

• Minimum requirement of 10+ years of experience in database administration, encompassing installation, configuration, backup/recovery, database tuning, and support for application design and development.

• Proficiency in physical database modelling, information engineering, multi-tier design and development, and open systems.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in database high availability and disaster recovery techniques and concepts.

• Experience in performance analysis (IO, CPU, etc.) and optimization (indexes, partitions, schema re-design, etc.).

• Familiarity with geo-redundant database architectures (Always-On, Active/Active, Master/Master, etc.) will be considered an advantageous skill.

• Relevant experience on Oracle, SQL Server, EDB Postgres, MongoDB are more suitable for the requirement.

• Having good interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Having good communication skills and able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Who we are
As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

What we offer:

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.