SrLead,DatabaseDevelopment

**_About Northern Trust:_** Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. 1\. Primary DBA Ownership (Core Accountability) • Act as the primary DBA for all Data Protection databases across production, UAT, and development environments. • Own database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management. • Serve as final technical escalation for database incidents, outages, and data integrity issues. • Define and enforce DBA standards, operational guardrails, and support models. 2\. Database Architecture & Engineering • Design, build, and maintain enterprise grade SQL Server databases (on premise and cloud, including Azure SQL Managed Instance). • Own physical and logical database design, including: o Schema design o Indexing strategies o Partitioning o Performance tuning • Lead database strategy for new Data Protection services, integrations, and platform migrations. • Govern schema evolution to ensure backward compatibility and reporting stability. 3\. Performance, Reliability & Capacity Management • Proactively monitor and tune database performance (queries, indexes, memory, IO). • Lead capacity planning and forecasting, including storage, compute, and growth modelling. • Design and test backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies in line with enterprise RTO/RPO expectations. 4\. Data Ingestion, ETL & Automation • Provide senior DBA oversight and hands on support for ETL and ingestion pipelines. • Ensure