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.
Job Description
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
Role Overview
- Core Purpose: Manages, secures, and optimizes our on-premises enterprise Teradata data warehouse platform to ensure high-performance data analytics.
- Collaboration: Partners with infrastructure teams, data engineers, and BI analysts to maintain hardware efficiency and database uptime.
Key Responsibilities
- Hardware & Space Management: Allocates Perm, Spool, and Temp spaces across physical nodes; monitors and resolves data skewing across AMPs.
- Performance Tuning: Uses Teradata Viewpoint and Visual Explain to optimize complex SQL queries and automates database statistics collection.
- Workload Management: Configures TASM (Teradata Active System Management) rules to balance local server resources and prioritize critical business workloads.
- Data Utilities: Troubleshoots infrastructure-level load scripts utilizing BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, and FastExport.
- Backup & On-Premises Recovery: Implements disaster recovery and backup strategies via Data Stream Architecture (DSA) integrated with on-premises storage systems (e.g., NetBackup).
- Security & Auditing: Manages user access, roles, and profiles, and monitors resource consumption using DBQL and ResUsage.
Who you are
Required Qualifications
- Experience: 10+ years of dedicated experience managing on-premises Teradata production environments.
- Architecture Knowledge: Deep understanding of physical Teradata MPP architecture (Nodes, AMPs, Parsing Engines, BYNET).
- Infrastructure & OS: Strong hands-on experience with physical storage, Linux/Unix server administration, and shell scripting.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
Preferred Skills
- Teradata Vantage Certified Administrator credential.
- Experience handling hardware upgrades, patches, or storage area network (SAN) integrations.
- Experience in Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres and MongoDB are added advantage
- Self-motivated and driven
- Good interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Banking experience is an added advantage
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of dedicated experience managing on-premises Teradata production environments
- Deep understanding of Teradata MPP architecture, including Nodes, AMPs, Parsing Engines, and BYNET
- Hands-on experience with physical storage
- Linux/Unix server administration experience
- Shell scripting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Teradata Vantage Certified Administrator credential
- Experience with hardware upgrades and patches
- Experience with SAN integrations
- Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB
- Banking experience
What We Do
OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker. OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services. OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang. OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
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