# Senior Database Engineer / Senior Consultant Specialist

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra, Maharashtra
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Join HSBC as a Senior Database Engineer / Senior Consultant Specialist and own the health, performance, and reliability of a multi-database ecosystem across relational, graph, and cloud-hosted platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL and Cassandra databases, including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimisation, and high-availability configurations.

- Administer and develop on TigerGraph, including graph schema modelling, GSQL query development, and cluster management.

- Manage BigQuery datasets, including table partitioning, clustering, cost optimisation, and access control.

- Monitor database performance across all platforms, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, deadlocks, and slow queries.

- Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for all managed databases.

- Enforce data security policies, user access controls, and compliance requirements.

- Collaborate with backend engineering and data teams on data modelling and query design.

- Maintain database documentation, runbooks, and capacity planning reports.

- Support data migration and transformation pipelines across systems.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of overall IT experience, with strong Database Administration expertise.

- Hands-on DBA experience including performance tuning, replication, vacuuming, and partitioning.

- Hands-on experience with TigerGraph, including graph modelling, GSQL development, and cluster operations.

- Strong experience with Cassandra (data modelling, query optimisation, and operational support).

- Working knowledge of BigQuery (partitioning/clustering, cost optimisation, and access control/IAM).

- Strong understanding of database security, access controls, backup strategies, and disaster recovery.

- Solid experience with GCP services such as Cloud SQL, GCS, IAM, and networking.

- Operational familiarity with Kubernetes/GKE and exposure to CI/CD and/or Liquibase for database change automation.

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- Cassandra
- TigerGraph
- BigQuery
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- GKE
- CI/CD
- Liquibase

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