Senior Database Engineer / Senior Consultant Specialist

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Own the health, performance, and reliability of a multi-database ecosystem across relational, graph, and cloud-hosted platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL and Cassandra databases, including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimisation, and high-availability configurations.
• Administer and develop on TigerGraph, including graph schema modelling, GSQL query development, and cluster management.
• Manage BigQuery datasets (good to have), including table partitioning, clustering, cost optimisation, and access control.
• Monitor database performance across all platforms, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, deadlocks, and slow queries.
• Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for all managed databases.
• Enforce data security policies, user access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with backend engineering and data teams on data modelling and query design.
• Maintain database documentation, runbooks, and capacity planning reports.
• Support data migration and transformation pipelines across systems.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 7+ years of overall IT experience, with strong Database Administration expertise.
• Hands-on DBA experience including performance tuning, replication, vacuuming, and partitioning.
• Hands-on experience with TigerGraph, including graph modelling, GSQL development, and cluster operations.
• Strong experience with Cassandra (data modelling, query optimisation, and operational support).
• Working knowledge of BigQuery (partitioning/clustering, cost optimisation, and access control/IAM) — good to have.
• Strong understanding of database security, access controls, backup strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Solid experience with GCP services such as Cloud SQL, GCS, IAM, and networking.
• Operational familiarity with Kubernetes/GKE (TigerGraph deployed on GKE) and exposure to CI/CD and/or Liquibase for database change automation (good to have)

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India