Performance Engineer for Oracle Databases

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Your Team

The Performance Engineering team is responsible for the performance of our application across design, development and production. We are also responsible for large scaled performance tests and the analysis of them. Furthermore we deal with general, complex Oracle topics.

Your mission 

• Analysis of PL/SQL and SQL performance problems of our application on Oracle databases.
• Investigation of problems requiring deep Oracle knowledge.
• Customer consulting for Oracle and system performance problems in general. 
• Supporting teams with the design of new functionalities with regards to system performance.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

• Deep knowledge of Oracle databases especially with regards to system performance.
• 5 + years of experience in the design and development of high-performance PL/SQL applications.
• Oracle database profiling/performance monitoring experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with autonomous approach to learning.
• Well-developed technical communication skills.

Good-to-have skills:

• Experience in the design and development of high-performance PL/SQL applications.
• Unix and Linux know how.

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.