Database Developer Senior

Location: Cleveland, OH

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s mission is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems while representing the Fourth District perspectives.

As part of the nation’s central bank, we are a team of mission-driven professionals who are committed to serving with excellence. Our core values are: Build Trust Every Day, Own Our Actions, Collaborate with Intention, and Be Open to Change.

For twenty-six years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

We are seeking a talented Database Developer to design, develop, and optimize database solutions within our cloud infrastructure. This role will focus on building robust database logic, stored procedures, and data layer components that power our enterprise applications in a modern cloud environment.

The ideal candidate will work as part of a cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with application developers, QA engineers, DevOps specialists, Site Reliability engineers, and product owners throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will participate in all agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.

Essential Responsibilities

• Design and implement database logic, stored procedures, functions, and triggers in cloud-based database platforms.

• Design and implement database structures via DDL such as tables, indices, partitions, constraints.

• Develop data access layers and optimize query performance for scalability

• Collaborate with application developers to ensure seamless integration between database and application layers.

• Partner with DevOps teams to implement database CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Work with QA engineers to develop testing strategies for database components and setting up test data.

• Analyze, plan, and execute data migrations as needed to support business objectives.

• Participate actively in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives

• Review code and provide constructive feedback to team members.

• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues in development and production environments with an emphasis on performance tuning and optimization.

Knowledge & Skills

• Deep understanding of relational database design concepts.

• Strong Oracle and PostgreSQL development skills: solid SQL and PL/SQL coding techniques; ability to create and maintain tables, constraints, triggers, views, stored procedures and functions, packages, and types; solid understanding of SQL tuning practices and indexing and partitioning strategies.

• Experience as an application or operational DBA and/or knowledge of Oracle and PostgreSQL database architecture.

• Experience with cloud data management and infrastructure, including the ability to provision, configure, and maintain necessary data infrastructure though pipelines and infrastructure as code.

• Working knowledge and practical experience with backing up and restoring databases.

• Experience with NoSQL and/or DynamoDB is desirable.

Education & Experience

Database Developer Senior

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of professional work experience or

• Two years of college or database development bootcamp certificate and 7+ years of professional work experience

Database Developer

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of professional work experience

• Two years of college or database development bootcamp certificate and 5+ years of professional work experience or

Database Developer Associate

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of professional work experience

• Two years of college or database development bootcamp certificate and 5+ years of professional work experience or

Location: Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, or Pittsburgh, PA

The expected starting salary range for the Database Developer Senior is between ​$111,400 and $153,100 annually, for the Database Developer is between $90,500 and $124,400 annually and for the Database Developer Associate is between $66,100 and $90,900 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.clevelandfed.org/careers

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions            

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time. 

Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected].

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions.  If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.  

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Data Analytics Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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