Senior Application Database Administrator

About the role

Experian is looking for a Senior Application Database Administrator to design and manage cloud-based databases that support business-critical applications. You will work with application developers, DevOps engineers and platform teams to make databases secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective, and report to the Director of Software Engineering.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, administration and optimization of cloud-based application databases to ensure performance and reliability.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to build scalable, secure and resilient database solutions.
• Guide database architecture, schema design, performance tuning and cloud-native best practices.
• Manage database automation projects, including infrastructure-as-code, deployment processes, monitoring and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term improvements.
• Establish and promote database standards, backup and recovery strategies, security controls and operational best practices.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in database administration, application database support or related technical roles.
• Experience supporting high-availability production environments, including replication, disaster recovery and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of modern application architectures such as microservices, cloud-native platforms or distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring team members and contributing to technical discussions, standards and database projects.

Required skills

• Enterprise relational database platforms and advanced SQL performance tuning.
• Cloud-native database services such as Amazon Web Services RDS, Aurora Postgres or Cloud SQL.