Databases Expert

Job Title

Databases Expert

Reporting To

Head of Department, AI and Data Platform Competency Center

Location

Lyon

Contract

Fixed-term Contract, Duration: 36 months

Grade

4

Number of posts

1

Security Screening Level

Enhanced

Application Deadline

30 July 2026

Conditions applying for all candidates

• Only professional experience for which candidates can provide official proof of employment will be considered. Candidates may be requested to provide copies of such official documents prior to interview/testing.
• Subsequent extension to this post will be subject to the terms of the Organization’s Staff Manual, to satisfactory performance and to availability of funds.
• Tests/interviews will take place approximately 1/3 weeks after the deadline for applications. Applicants are kindly requested to plan their availability accordingly, in case they are short-listed.
• Selected candidates will be expected to report for duty approximately one to three months after receiving an offer of employment at the latest.
• This selection exercise may be used to generate a reserve list of suitable candidates that may be used to address Organization's similar staffing needs in the future.

Summary of Duties, Including Goals and Objectives of the Post

The holder of the post under the responsibility of the Head of the Application Support and Data Management is responsible for the design, implementation, support, and maintenance of all databases, datalake and ETL infrastructures of the Organization. In this role, they will drive innovation within the Data management, by assessing new technologies and studying opportunities to introduce them within our Infrastructure. The data concerned are related to Non-Criminal, Criminal and Infrastructure products.

Responsibilities

• Duty 1: Database Management Expertise
  • Manages the technical lifecycle of the databases used by the Organization.
  • Maintains current knowledge of database technology and recommends modifications of our standards as necessary.
  • Creates and proposes technical design documentation including database design models, mapping, and standards.
  • Defines operational procedures that will guarantee SLA and operational requirements.
• Duty 2: Datalake Management Expertise
  • Manages the technical lifecycle of the datalake, any data storage and data manipulation tools used by the Organization.
  • Maintains current knowledge of datalakes, data storage, and data manipulation tools technologies and recommends modifications of our standards as necessary.
• Duty 3: Data Governance
  • Participates in the definition of data governance rules (data life cycle, data security management, data quality).
  • Enforces the data governance rules through tools and operational procedures.
  • Organizes the data administration auditing procedures.
• Duty 4: Technical Referent
  • Provides database troubleshooting analysis skills (root cause analysis, alarm management, etc.).
  • Defines standards for database performance management, data processing performance management, monitoring management.
  • Enforces the data processing security requirement defined by the Organization.
  • Defines roadmaps to prevent technological obsolescence and security management of our environments.
  • Manages training of the data team around the DRP management.
  • Updates operational procedures around data management.

Qualifications, Competencies and Skills

Perform any other duties as required by the supervisor.

Education and Qualification Required

• University degree (3 to 4 years) in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent field is preferred.
• Internationally recognized certifications in Database field.
• ITIL Certification.

Experience Required

• Minimum of 7 years in IT, including at least 5 years in Database design and operations in a multi-datacenter and mission critical environment.
• Experience in Lakehouse or Datamart design and implementation.

Languages

• Working knowledge of English is required. Fluency in English is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in second official working language of the Organization (Arabic, French or Spanish) would be an additional asset.

Abilities Required

Computer Knowledge

• Good overall knowledge of operating systems and networks; accurate knowledge of databases.

General Competencies

• High level of human relations skills.
• Organized, methodical, efficient.
• Ability to listen and to coordinate.
• Proactivity, ability to suggest database infrastructure improvements and optimizations.
• Efficiency in emergency, critical situations.
• Ability to deal with several issues simultaneously.
• Ability to understand and deal with priorities, in coordination with the ability to understand business rules and therefore business impacts of technical issues.
• Teamwork and reporting.
• Integrity and commitment.

Technical Competencies

• Knowledge about relational database management systems. Expert level knowledge of at least two of the following: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of non-relational DBs like MongoDB and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of ETL tools (Talend, Nifi, etc.) and dataviz tools (Qlik, Tableau, Power BI).
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Advanced knowledge in the Hadoop technical stack (datalake).
• Knowledge of general high availability and data replication technologies.
• Knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
• General understanding of data governance issues (data lifecycle, data quality, data security).
• Knowledge of ITIL methodologies and practices (change management, problem management, incident management, DRP, crisis management).