Lead Database Engineer
<p><b>A World-Class Team</b></p><p></p><p>BJs Wholesale Club is powered by more than 30,000 team members who make a real impact every day. Whether you're stocking shelves, solving problems or shaping strategy, your work helps families save on what matters most.</p><p></p><p> Were a team built on purpose and opportunity. Join us and be part of something meaningful.</p><p></p><p><b> Why Youll Love Working at BJs</b></p><p>At BJs Wholesale Club, our team members are at the heart of everything we do. Thats why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being and future both on and off the job. When you grow, we grow.</p><p></p><p><b> Heres just some of what you can look forward to:</b></p><ul><li><b>Weekly Pay: </b>Get paid every weekso that you can manage your money on your terms.</li><li><b> Free BJs Memberships: </b>Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.*</li><li><b>Generous Paid Time Off: </b>Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.*</li><li><b>Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: </b>Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.*</li><li><b>401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: </b>Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).*</li><li><b>Employee Stock Purchase Plan:</b> Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJs common stock at a 15% discount.*</li></ul><p></p><p>*Eligibility requirements vary by position.</p><p><b> Job Summary:</b></p><p>As a Lead Database Engineer in the Database Engineering and Operations team, you will design, build, maintain, and support enterprise database solutions across on-premises and AWS platforms. In addition to hands-on engineering, this role provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, and operational governance for database platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS.</p><p></p><p> The ideal candidate has deep database administration expertise and the ability to lead database initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, performance, and modernization across database platforms.</p><div></div><p><b> Key Responsibilities:</b></p><p></p><p><u>Technical Leadership</u></p><ul><li>Lead the design, implementation, and support of enterprise database platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS.</li><li> Define and enforce database architecture standards, best practices, and operational procedures.</li><li> Provide technical leadership and mentoring to database engineers and administrators.</li><li> Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud teams to support business-critical systems.</li><li> Lead database modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, automation, and performance optimization.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Database Engineering & Administration</u></p><ul><li>Perform database administration including database design, installations, upgrades, configuration, replication, backup & recovery, and performance monitoring.</li><li> Implement and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions such as Oracle Data Guard, SQL Server Always On, log shipping, and replication.</li><li> Ensure database availability, reliability, and service level objectives (SLOs) across environments.</li><li> Manage AWS RDS database services including provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and optimization.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Performance & Optimization</u></p><ul><li>Lead database performance tuning initiatives across platforms.</li><li> Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to connectivity, performance, deadlocks, blocking, replication, backup failures, and security.</li><li> Perform root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions to improve stability.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Automation & Platform Efficiency</u></p><ul><li>Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling using shell scripting or similar technologies.</li><li> Drive improvements in database deployment automation, monitoring, and operational efficiency.</li><li> Implement database monitoring frameworks and alerting systems.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Governance & Collaboration</u></p><ul><li>Work with engineering teams to ensure database standards, security policies, and compliance requirements are met.</li><li> Participate in capacity planning, platform roadmap planning, and technology evaluations.</li><li> Manage and prioritize multiple database projects across business units.</li><li> Provide leadership during incident management and critical production issues.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Operations</u></p><ul><li>Participate in on-call rotation supporting 24x7 production environments.</li><li> Drive improvements in incident response, reliability engineering, and operational processes.</li></ul><p></p><p><b> Required Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.</li><li> 810+ years of database engineering/administration experience.</li><li> 5+ years of Oracle database administration experience.</li><li> 3+ years of DB2 administration experience.</li><li> Experience supporting SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases.</li><li> Experience with AWS database services (RDS preferred).</li><li> Oracle OCP/OCM, IBM DB2 Database Administrator, or AWS Certified Database / Solutions Architect certifications are highly desirable and demonstrate advanced expertise in enterprise database platforms</li></ul><p></p><p><u>Technical Skills</u></p><ul><li>Strong expertise in Oracle 12c, 18c, 19c administration.</li><li> Strong knowledge of performance tuning, backup & recovery (RMAN, logical backups), upgrades, and security.</li><li> Experience implementing Data Guard, replication, and high availability solutions.</li><li> Experience managing SQL Server HA solutions (Always On, log shipping, replication).</li><li> Hands-on experience with DB2 and PostgreSQL administration.</li><li> Experience working with AWS RDS, Redshift, and cloud database services.</li><li> Strong shell scripting or automation scripting skills.</li><li> Familiarity with database tools such as OEM, SQL Developer, and monitoring tools.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Leadership & Soft Skills</u></p><ul><li>Proven ability to lead database engineering initiatives and mentor team members.</li><li> Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.</li><li> Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams.</li><li> Strong documentation and communication skills.</li></ul><p></p><p><u> Nice to Have</u></p><ul><li>Experience managing SAP databases on Oracle or HANA.</li><li> Experience with database migration to cloud platforms.</li><li> Exposure to DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines for database deployments.</li></ul><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><span> This is a hybrid role. Tuesday through Thursday are in-office days at BJ's Club Support Center in Marlborough, MA and Monday and Friday are remote days.</span></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p> In accordance with the Pay Transparency requirements, the following represents a good faith estimate of the compensation range for this position. At BJs Wholesale Club, we carefully consider a wide range of non-discriminatory factors when determining salary. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, education, experience, and qualifications. The pay range for this position is $128,500.00 - $164,000.00
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