DBA Team Leader (Oracle)

Location: Geneva, Switzerland; hybrid work. Full-time position with on-call rotation and occasional planned or weekend work required.

Company

EFG International is a global private banking and asset management group serving clients in more than 40 locations worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the DBA team, allocating work, setting priorities, and ensuring skills coverage and knowledge transfer.
• Own the operation and lifecycle management of Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Azure database services supporting business-critical banking applications.
• Define and enforce standards for database architecture, security, backup and recovery, monitoring, patching, performance, resilience, and regulatory controls.
• Ensure availability, capacity, recoverability, high availability, and disaster recovery, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Data Guard architectures.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management, including root-cause analysis, preventive actions, stakeholder communication, and senior escalation support.
• Drive performance tuning, migrations, upgrades, platform consolidation, cloud adoption, vendor management, and database strategy improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of database administration experience in complex, high-availability environments, ideally in financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Several years of technical leadership and/or people-management experience leading DBA or similar infrastructure teams.
• Experience managing mission-critical database platforms supporting core business applications and regulatory requirements.
• Advanced hands-on expertise in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server administration, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting.
• Practical experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL, plus heterogeneous database environments.
• Strong experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Data Guard, and high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures.
• Knowledge of database architecture, performance optimisation, capacity management, security, resilience, lifecycle management, scripting, and automation.
• Strong planning, vendor-management, risk-management, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent French and English, spoken and written; willingness to participate in on-call rotation and support work outside normal business hours, including weekends when required.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate degree and/or professional certifications in database technologies or cloud platforms.
• Experience with Azure SQL Database and other Azure data services, including hybrid and cloud migration scenarios.
• Experience in financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Additional language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, inclusive, and respectful working environment.
• Values include accountability, hands-on execution, passion, solution orientation, and partnership.
• Work involves collaboration with Application Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Project Management teams.
• Operational coverage includes an on-call rotation and occasional planned or weekend work for critical incidents and scheduled activities.

Hiring process

• Attach a cover letter to the CV when submitting the application.