Data Engineer - Oracle, MySQL, OLTP
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PNC
Birmingham, AL (In Person)
$107,529 Salary, Full-Time
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Job Description
- Position Overview
- At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve.
- Design and evolve an enterprise transactional data model for lending payment processing (OLTP), including schemas, constraints, indexing strategies, partitioning, and retention/archival patterns.
- Define database standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and resiliency across MySQL and Oracle. Build & Operate (Production Ownership)
- Implement and operate high availability and disaster recovery patterns; validate operational readiness (failover/failback, replication health, recovery objectives).
- Drive performance engineering: query tuning, index strategy, execution plan analysis, contention/locking analysis, and workload management.
- Implement automation for database operations (provisioning support, patch readiness support, backup validation, health checks, and runbook-driven execution). Data Movement & Replication
- Design and support replication/data movement strategies as needed for resiliency and/or cross-site requirements (preferred Oracle skills include Golden Gate and Data Guard). Security & Compliance
- Partner with security to enforce encryption-in-transit/at-rest, least privilege, auditing, secrets management integration, and vulnerability remediation for database platforms. Cross-team Collaboration
- Work closely with application teams on schema evolution, release coordination, and safe migration approaches (including MySQL ↔ Oracle considerations).
- Produce durable documentation: architecture diagrams, decision records, runbooks, and operational validation checklists. Required qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating high-volume, enterprise OLTP databases supporting mission-critical transactions.
- Advanced SQL and performance tuning experience across MySQL and Oracle (query tuning, indexing, partitioning, execution plan analysis).
- Experience with operational best practices: backup/restore validation, patch planning, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and runbooks.
- Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, and security with clear, structured communication. Preferred qualifications (Oracle focus)
- Oracle Exadata experience (engineering/tuning/operations on Exadata platforms).
- Oracle Data Guard experience (HA/DR, role transitions, validation of primary/standby states).
- Oracle Golden Gate experience (replication design/operations).
- Understanding of enterprise MySQL deployment/replication patterns (e.g., primary/replica cross-site patterns).
- Owns significant components of the database platform (specific schemas/domains, key performance areas, or HA/DR operational ownership) with minimal guidance.
- Responsible for technical workstreams (e.g., partitioning rollout, performance remediation, operational readiness) and drives them to closure.
- Improves runbooks/automation; contributes to production incident response and prevention.
- Owns end-to-end database architecture for the platform or a major program (e.g., enterprise transaction store modernization, MySQL→Oracle strategy, multi-site replication/DR patterns).
- Sets standards and is an escalation point for complex performance and replication/DR tradeoffs.
- Mentors engineers/DBAs, drives cross-team alignment, and influences roadmap decisions with measurable operational outcomes (availability, latency, stability).
- Establishes and enforces engineering rigor: design reviews, operational readiness gates, and evidence-based performance validation. What success looks like (first 6-12 months)
- Improved database performance and stability through measurable tuning and operational guardrails (reduced latency, fewer recurring incidents).
- Clear HA/DR posture with validated runbooks and repeatable failover readiness checks.
- Documented, scalable schema/partitioning/retention strategy for payment transactions that supports volume growth sustainably.
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for this position.- Job Description
- + Develops, supports and implements data services for multiple applications to meet business objectives and user requirements.
- Customer Focused
- - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions. +
- Managing Risk
- - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Qualifications
- Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.
- Preferred Skills
- Analytical Thinking, Competitive Advantages, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning (ML), MySQL, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Oracle
- Competencies
- Application Delivery Process, Big Data Management and Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis - Software, Data Architecture, Database Structures, Effective Communications, Problem Solving, Software Development Life Cycle
- Work Experience
- Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 3+ years of relevant / direct industry experience. Certifications are often desired. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.
- Education
- Bachelors
- Certifications
- No Required Certification(s)
- Licenses
- No Required License(s)
- Pay Transparency
Base Salary:
$42,000.00 - $172,250.00 Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.- Application Window
- Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 04/22/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.
- Benefits
- PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future.
- Disability Accommodations Statement
- If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, please contact us via email at AccommodationRequest@pnc.
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
- PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.
- California Residents
- Refer to the California Consumer Privacy Act Privacy Notice (https://content.
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