Principal Database Engineer

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
In-Office
HR Tech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role

Management Level

E

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Description:

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the configuration or development team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Principal engineers thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Technical Responsibilities

  • Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
  • Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
  • Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.

Professional Skills and Qualities

  • Agile Methodologies - Scrum
  • Efficiency improvement
  • Configuration management
  • Release readiness
  • Documentation / technical writing
  • Process, data, system engineering
  • Analytical - business, process, data, system
  • Lifecycle management
  • Problem solving

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Advanced Level

  • Database Development
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Engineering
  • Database Design
  • Data Modelling (Physical, Logical, Dimension)
  • Data access and persistence
  • ETL & Data warehousing
  • Database Administration - Performance Tuning, Partitioning, Indexing & QEP's
  • Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
  • SAST and DAST tools
  • Message queuing systems
  • Application architecture
  • Containers
  • Source code control
  • Automated Release and deployment
  • Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
  • Investigating and resolving issues
  • Devising permanent or temporary corrections and workarounds for faults
  • Capturing user feedback for subsequent analysis to inform future application development
  • Assists in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to applications
  • C# , PowerShell, JSON, XML, XQuery, XPath
  • SQL, T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, Tabular Model
  • SSRS, PowerBI, Service Broker
  • Query Store (IQP), Profiler, CDC, TDE
  • Replication, Log Shipping, Maintenance Plans
  • Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
  • Azure DevOps, TFS
  • Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
  • SQLPrompt, tSQL

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

  • 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives  
  • Business related certification expense reimbursement
  • Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
  • Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
  • Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

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