At our brand-new Shared Business Platform (SBP) in Bucharest, we offer a dynamic environment where career growth is actively supported through internal mobility, globally recognized certifications, and continuous professional development. We value work–life balance, offering flexible work arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives that help you thrive both personally and professionally.
Now, let’s explore this exciting opportunity so that you can be part of our mission.
Scor Tech (~200 employees across the globe) provides products, services, and support to all SCOR Group worldwide. Its 2 key challenges today are to successfully implement its new Target Operating Model (TOM), to be supported by an ambitious pluri-annual internalization plan to deliver innovative products and services to its clients.
The Tech & Data organization is an Agile matricial organization relying on 4 pillars:
- Data and System Engineering, made of the following teams: Data Center of Excellence, Products and Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture
- Management & Control (M&C) & Corporate Systems, made of teams supporting Crews and Transversal Functional Domains: Governance, T&D Operating Model Implementation, Security & Compliance, Financial Control, Sourcing & Vendor Management, Governance, and Processes
- Technical, made of teams dedicated to IT Operations, Network, Cloud, Workplace & Cloud Productivity Services
- Crews and Transversal Functional Domains
Crews are supported by Chapters (Software Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Operation) and both Technical and M&C teams are fully dedicated to the delivery of SCOR products, services and support.
As a member of Production team your responsibilities are:
Administration:
- Define database implementation guidelines
- Create databases with application Technical Owner and Functional Project Manager
- Deploy, manage and maintain database engines up to date (supported version) and secured (patched)
- Implement and manage (administration, automation, process definition, logical access policy enforcement, optimization, …) database engines and servers
- Create and maintain bespoke tools to facilitate database administration through standardize automation
Run:
- Ensure database availability and data consistency (backup policy, tested restoration procedures, journaling, cold restart post incident, …) as logical security (encryption of sensitive data, least required privilege access, …)
- Implement and maintain database monitoring tools
- Tune database engines for optimal use
Support:
- Assist developer and user as required (training, request tips, …)
- Provide database technical level 2 support on global scope of SCOR database engines
- Provide technical expertise and support to Project Managers engaging with database editors support
Development & Control:
- Provide databases and IT technologies watch
- Update and patch database engines to meet SCOR security guidelines and ensure continued editor support
- Perform technical tests to validate databases engines and tools implemented by SCOR Information Systems
- Define databases norms, standards and guidelines which projects should abide to during development and maintenance
Candidate Success Factors
- Accountability, reliability and thoroughness are key values required from an Observability Engineer
- Curiosity and willingness to learn from peers and past experiences
- Continuous improvement and service driven while keeping it simple
Objectives for the first year (or 2 years)
- Deliver Product(s) on time and in budget, in collaboration with Solution Owner
- Maintain Product(s) high level of availability and reliability
- Abide to and enforce SCOR Operation and Security practices
Key duties and responsibilities
Under the responsibility of DBA Manager, your mission and tasks will be:
- Maintain, configure, deploy and plan changes for SCOR secured Cloud Data Services through standardized automation
- Provide technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that current and planned technical solutions are compatible with business needs and strategic objectives
- Troubleshoot issues and participate in multi-discipline war rooms to resolve customer incidents as an L2 or L3 expert when circumstances require it.
- Provide 24/7 on-call L2/L3 support for production applications and services on weekly rotating basis.
- Support IT Functional teams with the development of processes to support business needs. Also expected to develop jobs to support pure technical processes.
- Identify and complete activities that introduce significant improvement to SCOR ecosystem (time savings, cost savings, system upgrades, reduces complexity,…)
- Identify and complete activities for strategic/functional projects
- Ensure adequate controls and control reports are available to comply with regulators and global governance
- Ensure compliance with IT technical policies
- Ensure compliance and deliver evidence as required to maintain ICS controls
Required experience & competencies
- 2+ years of experience supporting IT Production systems
- Fluent in English (written, spoken)
Hard Skills
- Traditional database engines such as: MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase or PostgreSQL as their DBaaS versions when available
- NoSQL database engines MongoDB or CosmosDB
- DBA tools such as SQL Sentry
- Databricks
- Database scripting languages, Liquibase
Soft skills
- Client-oriented (understand users practices)
- Willing to take initiatives
- Strong analytical and communications skills
- Team spirit and wish to collaborate with various stakeholders within SCOR IT
- Desire to work in a “multi-projects” approach and a multi-cultural environment
Required Education
Degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, or related analytical field; or equivalent experience
About UsAs a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience supporting IT Production systems
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
What We Do
SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, serves more than 5,000 clients worldwide, providing a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. SCOR delivers advanced financial solutions, analytics and services across all dimensions of risk in Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Investments. Reinsurance lies at the intersection of technical expertise and scientific progress. Models, data, and pricing and reserving tools are essential, yet they are never sufficient on their own. Sound risk decisions require expert judgment, experience and perspective. This is what we call the Art and Science of Risk. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry, where expertise grows through accumulation, transmission and practice. Across the Group, 3,600 experts based in more than 35 offices worldwide contribute to this collective intelligence. Actuaries, underwriters, risk management specialists, and Tech & Data experts transform data into insight, explore extreme scenarios, define the boundaries of insurability and help anticipate emerging risks. Together, they strengthen the resilience of SCOR, our clients and the societies we serve. This expertise is built through shared experience,continuous questioning and collective reflection. Like artists, we belong to schools of thought, learning first to observe, then to replicate, and ultimately to innovate. This ongoing transmission of knowledge enables SCOR to develop a distinctive approach, combining rigor, creativity and long-term vision in the service of risk mastery. This shared commitment underpins SCOR’s role as a global reinsurer. By turning risk into resilience and sustainable value, our collective of experts acts with responsibility and purpose. Together, we help protect the future, and shape it, for our clients, for society and for generations to come.
