Senior Database Engineer

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer to play a key technical role within our Security Analytics and Reporting domain. This position focuses on designing, optimizing, and operating database-centric solutions.

The role is centred on a structured database environment that supports security reporting, data correlation, and operational insights. You will work closely with Security Engineers, Analysts, and Platform teams to ensure that security-related data is well-modelled, performant, and reliably accessible for analytics and reporting use cases.

This is a hands-on role with strong ownership of database design, query performance, and data integration from multiple upstream sources.

Your Key Tasks:

• Database Architecture & Design• Design and maintain robust database schemas optimized for reporting and analytical queries.
• Ensure data models are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with security use cases.

• Performance & Optimization• Write, review, and optimize complex SQL queries.
• Perform query tuning and database performance troubleshooting.

• Data Integration• Retrieve and integrate data from diverse sources, including REST APIs, into the database environment.
• Ensure data consistency, quality, and reliability across datasets.

• Operational Ownership• Support database operations in Linux-based environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to ensure availability and access control.

• Collaboration & Guidance• Work closely with Security Engineers and Analysts to understand requirements and translate them into efficient data structures.
• Contribute to best practices for database usage, querying, and documentation.

For this senior-level position, we expect:

• 8–10 years of relevant professional experience
• Strong expertise in database schema design, optimization, and SQL best practices
• Proven ability to write efficient, complex SQL queries and perform query optimization
• Solid experience working with relational databases in analytics or reporting contexts
• Good working knowledge of Linux administration
• Strong Python skills, particularly for retrieving and processing data from REST APIs
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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