Job Description
Full–time
Job Profile: Senior, Database Administration
Job Family: Database Administration
Compensation Grade: 11A
Business Title: LEAD DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Primary Technology: Elastic Search
Secondary Technology: SOLR, Cassandra, Hadoop/Snowflake/DataLake, Mongo
Responsibilities
• As a Lead Database Administrator you will be accountable and responsible for Support, Administer, Manage, Scale and Tune the multi-terabyte Database Systems that will enable S&P Global Market Intelligence to ingest, manage, process and serve-up Market Data Products (Research Content, Pricing, Ratings & Financial Aggregates) as well as our highly transactional and dynamic web based CIQ Pro, CIQ Classic and Risk Solutions Platform.
• Execute multiple project plans and performance requirements, ensuring team has appropriate resources to achieve project goals.
• Solve highly complex, non-routine problems and determine the best solution through cost/benefit analysis.
• Follow processes and operational policies in suggesting new methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Own the delivery of medium to large size projects where you will contribute directly as an individual and take help of few others in the team.
• Manage key database releases for QA, Pre-Production, Production and DR as part of the overall SDLC.
• Work with other teams with in operations and peer groups like Development and QA as a lead.
• Frequently interact with customers and/or functional peer group managers, involving matters between functional areas.
• Work with IT Server Management and other groups and make sure that all events, incidents and problems are resolved as per the SLA.
• Establish baselines and improve efficiency and quality of delivery by automating complex routine tasks.
• Contribute to best of breed product support tools including run books, monitoring, and knowledge bases to aid in the product support process.
• Suggest improvements to current processes and tools and drive the change.
• Willing work on 24/7 shifts
• Perform database backups/ refreshes in non-prod environments.
• Participate 24x7 on call tier 3 support on a weekly rotating schedule
• Contribute to process and troubleshooting documentation.
• Should be able to support virtualized environment
The Impact
• This is an extremely visible role as the database is the backbone of our flagship products. These products rely on data to allow our customers to find the companies, securities and markets they are interested in, to explore the relationships between entities, and to search using public identifiers (CUSIPs, ISINs, SEDOLs, Tickers, etc). This critical backend driven data allow our users to value their portfolios, monitor market moving events, understand their risk and maintain their back office systems.
• Help others contribute to the achievement of Database Administration and IT objectives.
• Work on issues of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
What’s In It For You
• This is the place to hone your existing database and leadership skills while having the chance to become exposed to fresh and divergent technologies (e.g. SOLR, Elastic Search, Cassandra, Hadoop/DataLake/SnowFlake, active-active Databases, and petabyte storage levels).
• As a critical member of the team, you will have the opportunity collaborate with a global team of database administrators and engineers who have recently graduated as well as other team members who are experts in their domain.
The Team
• You will be part of a world class Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)/DSE team supporting various product offerings of S&P Global Market Intelligence powered by various middle tier, database and OS technologies and used by tens of thousands of users globally. The team is responsible for ensuring Greater Reliability, High Performance, High Availability and Scalability.
• You will work with a global team of intelligent and ambitious professionals recruited from top industries. The team is responsible for the database support, administration, scalability, performance tuning, release and architecture of large-scale data processing, aggregation and retrieval systems.
What We Are Looking For
• We are looking for the kind of person who is not only a roll up the sleeves hard core database technologist, but also a passionate database team member who can lead by example and motivate their peers to excel.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering
• 6+ years of hands-on large scale database (SQL or NoSQL) administration, support and performance tuning experience
• 4+ years of hands-on Elastic Search administration, support and performance tuning experience
• Experience with technologies like SQL Server, MySQL, SOLR, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL is a Plus
• Experience with leading medium to large size projects is a plus.
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certified is a plus.
• AZURE/AWS/GCP Certified is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
• Excellent hands on experience with Elastic Search, Apache Solr and Tomcat
• Excellent hands on experience with Elastic Search, Replication, Optimization and Scalability options
• Extensive experience with monitoring, administration, performance tuning, architecture, scalability, and stability.
• Good knowledge in Shell Scripting is a must.
• Good understanding of Application Performance Monitoring tools like Datadog and AppDynamics or any other such tools is a must.
• Should be able troubleshoot problems involving Operating Systems (Linux), Network and Storage (DAS and SAN).
• Hands-on experience with SOLR, Cassandra, Mongo, DataLake/Snowflake, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and Oracle Exadata is a huge plus.
• Ability to break large complex task into multiple smaller tasks and integrate the outcome of the smaller tasks.
• Exceptional follow-up and follow-through skills
• Ability to multi-task and manage priorities effectively
• Provide mentorship, training and advice to a team
• Excellent communication skills, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.
About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 281624
Posted On: 2026-02-27
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Profile: Senior, Database Administration
Job Family: Database Administration
Compensation Grade: 11A
Business Title: LEAD DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Primary Technology: Elastic Search
Secondary Technology: SOLR, Cassandra, Hadoop/Snowflake/DataLake, Mongo
Responsibilities
• As a Lead Database Administrator you will be accountable and responsible for Support, Administer, Manage, Scale and Tune the multi-terabyte Database Systems that will enable S&P Global Market Intelligence to ingest, manage, process and serve-up Market Data Products (Research Content, Pricing, Ratings & Financial Aggregates) as well as our highly transactional and dynamic web based CIQ Pro, CIQ Classic and Risk Solutions Platform.
• Execute multiple project plans and performance requirements, ensuring team has appropriate resources to achieve project goals.
• Solve highly complex, non-routine problems and determine the best solution through cost/benefit analysis.
• Follow processes and operational policies in suggesting new methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Own the delivery of medium to large size projects where you will contribute directly as an individual and take help of few others in the team.
• Manage key database releases for QA, Pre-Production, Production and DR as part of the overall SDLC.
• Work with other teams with in operations and peer groups like Development and QA as a lead.
• Frequently interact with customers and/or functional peer group managers, involving matters between functional areas.
• Work with IT Server Management and other groups and make sure that all events, incidents and problems are resolved as per the SLA.
• Establish baselines and improve efficiency and quality of delivery by automating complex routine tasks.
• Contribute to best of breed product support tools including run books, monitoring, and knowledge bases to aid in the product support process.
• Suggest improvements to current processes and tools and drive the change.
• Willing work on 24/7 shifts
• Perform database backups/ refreshes in non-prod environments.
• Participate 24x7 on call tier 3 support on a weekly rotating schedule
• Contribute to process and troubleshooting documentation.
• Should be able to support virtualized environment
The Impact
• This is an extremely visible role as the database is the backbone of our flagship products. These products rely on data to allow our customers to find the companies, securities and markets they are interested in, to explore the relationships between entities, and to search using public identifiers (CUSIPs, ISINs, SEDOLs, Tickers, etc). This critical backend driven data allow our users to value their portfolios, monitor market moving events, understand their risk and maintain their back office systems.
• Help others contribute to the achievement of Database Administration and IT objectives.
• Work on issues of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
What’s In It For You
• This is the place to hone your existing database and leadership skills while having the chance to become exposed to fresh and divergent technologies (e.g. SOLR, Elastic Search, Cassandra, Hadoop/DataLake/SnowFlake, active-active Databases, and petabyte storage levels).
• As a critical member of the team, you will have the opportunity collaborate with a global team of database administrators and engineers who have recently graduated as well as other team members who are experts in their domain.
The Team
• You will be part of a world class Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)/DSE team supporting various product offerings of S&P Global Market Intelligence powered by various middle tier, database and OS technologies and used by tens of thousands of users globally. The team is responsible for ensuring Greater Reliability, High Performance, High Availability and Scalability.
• You will work with a global team of intelligent and ambitious professionals recruited from top industries. The team is responsible for the database support, administration, scalability, performance tuning, release and architecture of large-scale data processing, aggregation and retrieval systems.
What We Are Looking For
• We are looking for the kind of person who is not only a roll up the sleeves hard core database technologist, but also a passionate database team member who can lead by example and motivate their peers to excel.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering
• 6+ years of hands-on large scale database (SQL or NoSQL) administration, support and performance tuning experience
• 4+ years of hands-on Elastic Search administration, support and performance tuning experience
• Experience with technologies like SQL Server, MySQL, SOLR, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL is a Plus
• Experience with leading medium to large size projects is a plus.
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certified is a plus.
• AZURE/AWS/GCP Certified is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
• Excellent hands on experience with Elastic Search, Apache Solr and Tomcat
• Excellent hands on experience with Elastic Search, Replication, Optimization and Scalability options
• Extensive experience with monitoring, administration, performance tuning, architecture, scalability, and stability.
• Good knowledge in Shell Scripting is a must.
• Good understanding of Application Performance Monitoring tools like Datadog and AppDynamics or any other such tools is a must.
• Should be able troubleshoot problems involving Operating Systems (Linux), Network and Storage (DAS and SAN).
• Hands-on experience with SOLR, Cassandra, Mongo, DataLake/Snowflake, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and Oracle Exadata is a huge plus.
• Ability to break large complex task into multiple smaller tasks and integrate the outcome of the smaller tasks.
• Exceptional follow-up and follow-through skills
• Ability to multi-task and manage priorities effectively
• Provide mentorship, training and advice to a team
• Excellent communication skills, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.
About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 281624
Posted On: 2026-02-27
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Lead Database Administrator position is now open for candidates interested in the Database Administrator sector. This role in Gurugram offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Database Administrator is a plus.
