Lead Database Engineer

Posted:
8/23/2024, 2:19:41 AM

Location(s):
Telangana, India ⋅ Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Lead Database Engineers work across the end-to-end software development life cycle and apply modern software development practices when defining, designing, building, testing and delivering software and services to users. Lead Software Engineers effectively collaborate with cross functional teams including senior stakeholders to deliver on projects. You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing software development engineering in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards development activities, milestones, and timelines.

About The Role:
In this role as Lead Database Engineer, you will:

  • You will analyze, design, develop, test, maintain and implement database solutions within Thomson Reuters suite of applications.
  • Working with other disciplines, such as software, product, architecture, dev/ops, and performance, you will design the best product solutions.
  • You will use your expertise to provide technical leadership for an application development team.
  • Performing full life cycle SQL/NoSql code and model development, including researching technical options for features, providing guidance and feedback on the findings and building proof of concepts to confirm the best approach.
  • Create solutions utilizing the best data storage technology for the use case (i.e. RDBMS, NoSql, Data Lake, etc.).
  • Work with performance engineers to monitor system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance and availability.
  • Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
  • Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement, and determining differences between releases/environments.
  • Performs database code/script/package reviews.

About you:
In this role as Lead Database Engineer, you will:

  • 10+ years of developing for MS SQL Server or performing Database Engineering duties.
  • Experience with relational databases reaching over 10TB.
  • Heavy performance tuning experience and SQL optimization.
  • Experience with non-traditional methods of performance tuning.
  • Mentorship abilities required.
  • Ability to work shoulder to shoulder with development teams.
  • Responsible for tuning complex SQL queries, procedures and indexing strategies for better performance.
  • Identify missing indexes on the databases and implement it for better performance.
  • Analysis of long running, execution plans and provide recommendations to improve performance.
  • Should have experience in transaction replication in replicating large size tables from large databases.

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two companywide Mental Health Days Off. work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects across company. Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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What's in it For You?


You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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Thomson Reuters Corporation

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Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1977

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