Who We Are
At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.
We Align To a Set Of Values That Are The Core Pillars That Define Our Culture And Help Bring Our Brand Purpose To Life
- We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners.
- We deliver on commitments: We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
- We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
- We are inclusive: We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.
Who You’ll Work With
The Information Technology organization is the technological foundation of our business and works in collaboration with our partners from across the company. The team drives technology and digital transformation, partners with business leaders to design and execute new strategies through IT and operations services and ensures the necessary IT risk management and security measures are in place and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and principles.
About The Role
This position is responsible for the design and administration of enterprise database systems and to maintain databases perform optimally according to the service level objectives for Corebridge critical applications, verifying the performance, capacity and availability of all database resources. This role designs and documents process for database configuration, migration, upgrade, monitoring, query tuning, security compliance, troubleshooting, backup and recovery. The candidate must keep the current and future business objectives in mind; they are expected to bring design and maintain state-of-the-art database environments, especially in the following Database technologies: Oracle Exadata, IBM DB2 on Mainframe and Snowflake database.
Responsibilities
- Thought Leader and change agent that works on understanding the big picture business strategy and builds database systems and platforms that support the strategic business goals and roadmap.
- Design database infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability.
- Ensure database infrastructure is properly patched, monitored, and maintained thru automation. Work closely with the Enterprise Shared Services team and Enterprise architecture team to help shape a clear technology lifecycle strategy for all database platforms.
- Build/maintain strong IT control and secure database environment. Works closely with IT Risk and Compliance to ensure security and compliance standards are followed.
- Responsible for the stability and reliability of mission-critical databases running on Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, AWS RDS, and/or other database management systems used in the enterprise.
- Validate and optimize database asset counts, ensure compliance with the software asset management team for effective licensing positions.
- Develop, configure and install database management systems. Build pipelines for automated deployment of database instances.
- Apply security best practices to database environments. Evaluate, schedule, configure, and install database upgrades and patches.
- Determine backup strategies for database management systems. Design database backup processes based on business need. Assist DBA Operations diagnose and resolves backup failures. Perform test restores of database backups to ensure backups are recoverable in the event of database failure and/or disaster.
- Review and advice on System design for High Availability and DR/BCP capability.
- Proactively tune database system performance to ensure defined business requirements and service level agreements are met.
- Provide database technology stack guidance to application teams in choosing the right database technology fitting the application. Review database design specifications to ensure adherence to database standards and best practices.
Skills And Qualifications
- 8+ Years of in-depth experience in Database Technologies like Oracle Exadata, IBM DB2 on and Snowflake database.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related study.
- Strong skills in troubleshooting, performance tuning, security, backup/recovery and monitoring of large database management systems.
- Must have hands on experience with Windows, Linux & UNIX Platforms.
- Ability to independently run technical meetings and directly interface with the business.
- Experience with Cloud based database technologies like Amazon RDS, SQL Database and Oracle Exadata Cloud preferred.
- Experience in UNIX shell scripting, Perl, Python and other scripting languages/utilities preferred.
Work Location
This position is based in Corebridge Financial’s Houston, TX office and is subject to our hybrid working policy, which gives colleagues the benefits of working both in an office and remotely.
Estimated Travel
May include up to 25%.
Why Corebridge?
At Corebridge Financial, we prioritize the health, well-being, and work-life balance of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits and wellness program is designed to support employees both personally and professionally, ensuring that they have the resources and flexibility needed to thrive.
Benefit Offerings Include
- Health and Wellness: We offer a range of medical, dental and vision insurance plans, as well as mental health support and wellness initiatives to promote overall well-being.
- Retirement Savings: We offer retirement benefits options, which vary by location. In the U.S., our competitive 401(k) Plan offers a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay (subject to annual IRS limits and Plan terms). These Company contributions vest immediately.
- Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling services and resources are available to all employees.
- Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000.
- Volunteer Time Off: Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually to support activities that enhance and serve communities where employees live and work.
- Paid Time Off: Eligible employees start off with at least 24 Paid Time Off (PTO) days so they can take time off for themselves and their families when they need it.
Eligibility for and participation in employer-sponsored benefit plans and Company programs will be subject to applicable law, governing Plan document(s) and Company policy.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Corebridge Financial, is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and we comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment laws. All applicants will be considered for employment based on job-related qualifications and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. The Company is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. At Corebridge Financial, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to building a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a wide variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our colleagues are respected as individuals and valued for their unique perspectives.
Corebridge Financial is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees, including any accommodations needed on the basis of physical or mental disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to complete any part of the application or hiring process, please send an email to TalentandInclusion@corebridgefinancial.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
To learn more please visit: www.corebridgefinancial.com
Functional Area
IT - Information Technology
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Relocation Provided:
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