Database Engineering Manager, Associate / Vice President

Location: Shanghai, China

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and support enterprise database platforms to ensure stability, availability, performance, security, and resiliency.
• Perform and oversee database installation, configuration, upgrade, patching, backup and recovery, migration, capacity planning, and lifecycle management activities.
• Support high availability, replication, and disaster recovery solutions and ensure operational readiness through regular validation and controlled testing.
• Investigate and resolve database incidents, performance issues, locking/contention events, and service degradation, and drive root cause analysis and remediation.
• Partner with application teams, infrastructure teams, information security, and vendors on solution design, production readiness, controlled implementation, and operational support.
• Establish and maintain operational procedures, standards, access controls, backup policies, recovery documentation, and platform governance artifacts.
• Support database security hardening, audit readiness, access review, and compliance remediation activities.
• Provide secondary support across server and storage-related matters where coordination with broader infrastructure teams is required.
• Monitor platform performance and service indicators, identify risks and control gaps, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in project delivery, platform upgrades, technology refresh, migration, and environment optimization efforts.
• Engage with regional and global technology teams to ensure local database services remain aligned with enterprise standards and strategic direction.
• Support internal audit, regulatory review, risk assessments, and vendor governance activities as required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Solid experience in enterprise database administration, engineering, or production support within a controlled environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle database platforms is required, including installation, administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, upgrade and migration, and production support in enterprise environments; familiarity with other mainstream international database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Experience in backup and recovery, performance tuning, upgrade and migration, access control, and incident resolution.
• Familiarity with high availability, replication, disaster recovery, and resilience testing practices for database platforms.
• Good understanding of the interaction between database, operating system, server, storage, and infrastructure layers.
• Strong SQL capability and ability to analyze database performance and operational behavior.
• Experience working within formal operational and control frameworks, including change, release, incident, and problem management.
• Strong documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to support production issues, controlled changes, maintenance windows, and recovery activities as required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Experience in asset management, fund management, securities, banking, or other regulated financial institutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise database technologies and features such as Oracle RAC, Data Guard, ASM, SQL Server Always On, or equivalent.
• Experience with enterprise backup, monitoring, and performance diagnostic tools.
• Working knowledge of server, virtualization, and storage platforms as secondary coverage.
• Exposure to automation and scripting using Shell, Python, PowerShell, or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with audit, compliance, control documentation, and regulated technology operations.
• Relevant certifications such as Oracle, Microsoft, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or ITIL are a plus.
• For Vice President level candidates, demonstrated strength in governance, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional delivery leadership is preferred.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

About the Organization

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.​We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to join our Technology Infrastructure team as a Database Engineering Manager. As a Database Engineering Manager supporting a regulated asset management environment, you will be responsible for the operational stability, control, resiliency, and continuous improvement of enterprise database platforms. The role carries primary accountability for database administration and engineering, with secondary coverage across server and storage-related support. This role requires a disciplined and control-oriented professional with strong production support experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, information security, and regional/global stakeholders. You will play a key role in ensuring database services are delivered in a stable, secure, and well-governed manner in line with business, regulatory, and audit expectations.