Senior Database Engineering Specialist, Cloud Migration and Platform Resiliency

Join Vanguard's Database Engineering team and play a key role in transforming our database platform strategy. As a Senior Database Engineering Specialist, you will help drive the modernization of enterprise database services, enabling scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based solutions across the organization. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, focusing on cloud database engineering, platform resiliency, modernization initiatives, and stakeholder partnership. You will help shape the future-state database ecosystem, guide cloud adoption efforts, and influence the design and implementation of highly available database solutions supporting critical business applications. We're seeking a hands-on engineer who thrives in complex environments, drives outcomes, and brings expertise across modern cloud-based database technologies and platforms.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support cloud-based database platforms that enable secure, scalable, and resilient business solutions.
• Lead and contribute to database modernization and cloud migration initiatives, helping transition critical workloads from on-premises environments to cloud-native platforms.
• Partner with application teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to define database architecture, platform standards, and long-term technology strategies.
• Drive improvements in platform resiliency, performance, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence across enterprise database environments.
• Provide technical leadership and consultation on cloud-based relational and non-relational database technologies, identifying opportunities to optimize scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Support complex production environments through advanced troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis while helping ensure platform stability and service reliability.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, automation opportunities, governance standards, and operational processes aligned with Vanguard's cloud strategy.
• Mentor engineers and operations teams by sharing technical expertise and enabling successful adoption of modern database platforms and services.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to strategic decisions regarding platform direction, architecture, and modernization roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering, database administration, data modeling, application development, business systems analysis, or related enterprise data platform roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong understanding of database architecture, logical and physical data modeling, performance tuning, and platform optimization.
• Experience supporting cloud migration, data modernization, and database transformation initiatives.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database, data integration, migration, and conversion issues.
• Knowledge of database security, governance, compliance, and data integrity best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and operational execution skills.

Preferred Skills

Expert-level experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational database technologies, including:

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• Neptune

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.