Senior or Lead Data Engineer - OLTP, MySQL and Oracle, Golden Gate and DataGuard

PNC•Strongsville, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Senior or Lead Data Engineer within PNC's Lending Tech organization, you will be based in Miamisburg, OH, Pittsburgh, PA or Dallas, TX or Birmingham, AL, or Strongsville, OH. We are building and operating an enterprise-scale, high-volume transactional database that supports all lending payment transactions end-to-end. This role designs, builds, and maintains highly available, performant, and secure data stores and data movement patterns across MySQL and Oracle platforms, partnering closely with application engineering, SRE/operations, and security teams. You will be accountable for database architecture and implementation decisions that directly impact transaction integrity, latency, resiliency, and operational excellence. Level (Senior vs Lead) is determined by depth of scope and leadership impact. This role develops, supports and implements data services for multiple applications to meet business objectives and user requirements. It uses technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build and maintain technology solutions, working closely with users, developers, operations and business partners to define data service requirements and the data preparation process development. The position designs and builds data service infrastructure on multiple data platforms, according to key business processes and the overall workflow, and develops and implements data solutions for multiple applications to ensure its scalability, availability and maintainability. It also implements data migration and transformation activities/processes to ensure the accuracy and security of data solutions.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience designing and operating high-volume, enterprise OLTP databases supporting mission-critical transactions.
Advanced SQL and performance tuning experience across MySQL and Oracle (query tuning, indexing, partitioning, execution plan analysis).
Experience with operational best practices: backup/restore validation, patch planning, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and runbooks.
Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, and security with clear, structured communication.
A university / college degree, with 3+ years of relevant / direct industry experience. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Application Delivery Process
Big Data Management and Analytics
Business Intelligence
Data Analysis - Software
Data Architecture
Database Structures
Effective Communications
Problem Solving
Software Development Life Cycle

Nice To Haves

Oracle Exadata experience (engineering/tuning/operations on Exadata platforms).
Oracle Data Guard experience (HA/DR, role transitions, validation of primary/standby states).
Oracle Golden Gate experience (replication design/operations).
Understanding of enterprise MySQL deployment/replication patterns (e.g., primary/replica cross-site patterns).
Analytical Thinking
Competitive Advantages
Data Analytics
Data Engineering
Data Mining
Data Science
Machine Learning (ML)
MySQL
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Oracle

Responsibilities

Design and evolve an enterprise transactional data model for lending payment processing (OLTP), including schemas, constraints, indexing strategies, partitioning, and retention/archival patterns.
Define database standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and resiliency across MySQL and Oracle.
Implement and operate high availability and disaster recovery patterns; validate operational readiness (failover/failback, replication health, recovery objectives).
Drive performance engineering: query tuning, index strategy, execution plan analysis, contention/locking analysis, and workload management.
Implement automation for database operations (provisioning support, patch readiness support, backup validation, health checks, and runbook-driven execution).
Design and support replication/data movement strategies as needed for resiliency and/or cross-site requirements (preferred Oracle skills include Golden Gate and Data Guard).
Partner with security to enforce encryption-in-transit/at-rest, least privilege, auditing, secrets management integration, and vulnerability remediation for database platforms.
Work closely with application teams on schema evolution, release coordination, and safe migration approaches (including MySQL Oracle considerations).
Produce durable documentation: architecture diagrams, decision records, runbooks, and operational validation checklists.
Develops, supports and implements data services for multiple applications to meet business objectives and user requirements.
Uses technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build and maintain technology solutions.
Works closely with users, developers, operations and business partners to define data service requirements and the data preparation process development.
Designs and builds data service infrastructure on multiple data platforms, according to key business processes and the overall workflow.
Develops and implements data solutions for multiple applications to ensure its scalability, availability and maintainability.
Implements data migration and transformation activities/processes to ensure the accuracy and security of data solutions.

Benefits

Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
Dental and vision options
Employee and spouse/child life insurance
Short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
Pension and stock purchase plans
Dependent care reimbursement account
Back-up child/elder care
Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
A robust wellness program with financial incentives
Maternity and/or parental leave
Up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.