SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

 

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Role Description The candidate will be primarily responsible for day-to-day Database Administration of Oracle 19C Databases ensuring the highest standards of availability, resilience, integrity, security and performance.  We require motivated and enthusiastic people who will work as part of an energetic global team to support enterprise database processes. Our team's primary responsibility is to keep the Databases in optimum condition. This involves database creation, database access control, backups/recovery, monitoring, performance tuning/optimisation, troubleshooting, space management, upgrades and security patching. It also includes Application support, process improvement, compliance, On-Call and weekend support. Role Responsibilities: Perform day to day database administration of Oracle 19C databases (including DataGuard) on Linux VM platform. Pro-actively manage oracle database resources ensuring their availability, resilience, integrity, efficiency and compliance at all times. Troubleshoot critical database issues and pro-actively monitor the databases and their resources. Participate in user/schema creation, privileges assignment, RMAN backups/restores, exports/imports and disaster recovery tests. Contribute to performance tuning, database sizing/space management, load balancing and configuration management. Maintain the database infrastructure and plan for future capacity requirements. Perform database upgrades and security patching. Support Application teams with their projects and database related queries/issues. Provide expertise during critical issue response. Take part in critical engineering and multi-team projects. Partner with other infrastructure teams to perform maintenance and upgrades on database infrastructure and to troubleshoot performance, network and hardware issues.  Produce and maintain internal knowledgebase articles. Perform other job-related duties requiring the same general knowledge, skills and degree of responsibility as above. Qualifications and Skills Required years of experience in a similar position:  4+ years. A Qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Solid understanding of Oracle Databases and their architecture. Hands on 19C Oracle database implementation/admin experience in a multi-platform environment. Knowledge of Linux architecture, OS commands and tools, UNIX scripting. Demonstrated SQL and PL/SQL knowledge/skills. Experience with front-end database administration tools like Toad and SQL Developer. Experience with RMAN backups/restores, exports/imports, database upgrading/patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting, OEM. Show ability to support Application upgrade projects and deployments, as well as company-wide infrastructure projects as it impinges on database components. Strong technical documentation skills.     Knowledge of DataGuard, Oracle Key Vault, Python, Ansible automation tool are an advantage. Highly self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative as well as under direction. Keen attention to detail and proven analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

 

The following Interpersonal skills are required:

Good communicator (we work globally so strong written and verbal skills are an absolute requirement).     Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment (our team constantly interfaces with other technical teams in pursuit of common goals). Strong customer service orientation. Empathy with users, active listening, patience and understanding.
  Additional Requirements Willingness to work part of the week during US business hours. Willingness to provide on-call support during off-business hours including weekends on a rotating basis. Weekend and late night work may be required on occasion.

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

 

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.