Database product development team leader

The role includes:

Combined responsibilities of a manager and technical leader, including the following: collaborating with existing team members around the world;  hiring local members of a team, if necessary;  understanding and helping to refine requirements for new products and/or maintenance of existing products, including functional and non-functional requirements, designing and reviewing logical and physical data models, specifying scalability, availability, and data integration strategies (such as RAC, Replication, Stand-by, Streams), as well as capacity planning; designing and/or maintaining database-tier portions of payments-related software applications; guiding those who are implementing the solution; ensuring a solution which is highly flexible functionaly, highly performant, and highly scalable.  Product solutions typically embody database support for high-volume, high-performance transaction-processing, business logic, and user interface components.   Some products are Oracle-only (UNIX), and some involved DB2 (mainframe /z or LUW), and SQL Server is the least frequently utilized database.  Development-oriented DBA work may be required.

Required competencies:
Ideally, a single candidate would have strong SQL, Extended SQL (e.g. PL/SQL), Performance Engineering, Data Modeling, light DBA, and Management Skills.  Data Modeling is the least important skill, the rest are very important but may not all be satisfied by 1 individual.  

Educated to degree level, the candidate will have 8 – 15 yrs IT experience overall with 6 – 12 yrs specialist enterprise scale database expertise. They should have core expertise as a Developer and/or DBA and/or Architect on Oracle OR SQL Server OR DB2, with experience in database architecture and design, development and deployment.  Experience of Database Performance tuning and SQL tuning, Data Modelling tools, and OLTP experience is required