Job Summary:
The Database Engineering Manager will lead Clearwater’s database engineering organization, driving reliability, modernization, performance, governance, and automation across cloud-native environments. This role is responsible for guiding the strategic evolution of our database platforms, supporting mission-critical workloads, and ensuring our data systems achieve the highest standards of availability, scalability, security, and compliance.
You will oversee a dedicated team managing the 24/7 performance of databases that power our transaction processing, reporting, and reconciliation services. The ideal candidate combines deep database engineering expertise—especially in SQL Server—with modern cloud platform experience and a passion for building high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities- Define and own the strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap for Clearwater’s database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Lead modernization initiatives, including migration to cloud native or managed database services and adoption of IaC based automation.‑native or managed database services and adoption of metadata‑driven or ‑based automation.
- Drive standards for performance optimization, scalability, observability, and governance across all database environments.
- Oversee system health, incident response, performance tuning, and real-time monitoring for high-volume, low latency workloads.‑time monitoring for high‑volume, low‑latency workloads.
- Ensure SLAs, SLOs, RTO/RPO, and compliance requirements are consistently met.
- Streamline deployments, backups, patching, failovers, and capacity scaling through automation.
- Partner with software engineering, SRE, analytics, cloud platform, and security teams to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for performance, reliability, and architectural issues.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on prioritization, planning, risk management, and delivery commitments.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing database engineering team. Oversee recruitment, career development, performance management, and succession planning.
- Foster a collaborative, results driven engineering culture consistent with Clearwater values.‑driven engineering culture consistent with Clearwater values.
- 12+ years of experience in production database engineering, with deep technical expertise in SQL Server (performance tuning, indexing, high availability/disaster recovery, query optimization).
- 5+ years in engineering leadership, managing and developing technical teams.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, or similar).
- Expertise in real-time and batch data processing, pipelines, and modern data architecture.
- Strong knowledge of governance, compliance, observability, and cost optimization principles.
- Exceptional communication skills, including clear written, verbal, and incident communications.
- Proven track record of delivering complex technical initiatives under pressure.
- Experience with Snowflake, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, or other cloud native and nonrelational platforms.‑native and non‑relational platforms.
- Experience supporting largescale, high throughput transactional workloads.‑scale, high‑throughput transactional workloads.
- Hands‑on automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, PowerShell, or similar IaC tools.
- Exposure to data streaming or CDC based ingestion (Kafka, Qlik, etc.).‑based ingestion (Kafka, Qlik, etc.).
- Certifications: AWS Database Specialty, Microsoft SQL Server/Azure DBA, or equivalent.
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What We Do
CWAN was founded on a simple belief: investment professionals deserve modern technology that actually works for them. Not legacy systems that slow them down. Not fragmented data that creates confusion. But one comprehensive platform that gives you complete visibility and crystal-clear insights.
The result? Investment management that works as seamlessly as your investment strategy.
Since our founding in 2004, CWAN has been the trusted technology partner powering the world’s leading institutional investors — from insurance companies, asset managers, and hedge funds to asset owners like corporations, endowments, and pension funds managing over $10 trillion in assets.
Why Work With Us
We continue to grow, fueled by a strong foundation, an ambitious vision, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients, partners, and team members around the world.
What started as a bold idea in Boise, Idaho has rapidly transformed into a global presence. We’ve expanded our footprint significantly—now operating out of 24 offices
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