Team Leader DBA

Location: Courbevoie / La Garenne Colombe

Context

Reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure & Workplace Services, this key role ensures we provide the most efficient, resilient and cost‑optimized database service to our business partners within Energy Management and B2B.

Your Mission

The Team Leader DBA is responsible for leading the Database Administration team and ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and operability of the database landscape across ENGIE Global Markets. The role oversees strategic roadmap execution, operational excellence and continuous improvement of database services while supporting business‑critical trading, risk and reporting platforms. The Team Leader acts as both a hands‑on technical expert and a people manager, coordinating workloads, defining standards and fostering a high‑performance culture within the DBA team.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, coach and develop a team of DBAs supporting GEMS business and IT applications.
• Organise priorities, manage workload distribution and ensure high‑quality service delivery.
• Conduct performance reviews and manage skills development plans.
• Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Database Operations

• Oversee day‑to‑day operations, monitoring and maintenance of all database systems (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MongoDB, Cloud PaaS DB, etc.).
• Ensure high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning and resiliency of database environments.
• Guarantee robust backup/restore processes and disaster recovery readiness.

Architecture & Roadmap

• Define and maintain database standards, architectures and lifecycle policies.
• Contribute to infrastructure roadmap construction, execution, automation and modernisation initiatives.
• Support application teams with database design, optimisation and migration.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with ENGIE cybersecurity policies, audit requirements and regulatory constraints.
• Implement and maintain database security, access controls, patching and vulnerability remediation.

Project Delivery & Business Support

• Participate in project planning and provide DBA expertise for application changes, new implementations and upgrades.
• Coordinate with Production, Application Support and Architecture teams to ensure smooth deployments.
• Provide L3 technical escalation support and problem resolution.

Hard Skills

• Strong expertise in one or more of the following: Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Knowledge of cloud database services (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, managed DB services).
• Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Understanding of performance analysis & tuning, high‑availability & clustering, backup, restore, replication, DR, monitoring and alerting tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps or Infrastructure as Code concepts.

Soft Skills

• Leadership and ability to develop team capabilities.
• Strong communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Problem‑solving mindset and resilience under operational pressure.
• Ability to prioritise, arbitrate and drive decisions.
• Client‑oriented, collaborative and proactive attitude.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications are a plus (Oracle OCP, Microsoft MCSE/DP, PostgreSQL certifications, Azure certifications).
• 10+ years in database administration within complex and high‑availability environments.
• 7+ years in trading or financial markets environments.
• Proven track record of delivering infrastructure or modernisation projects.

Languages

• English

Diversity & Inclusion

ENGIE S&EM is committed to fostering a gender‑neutral and inclusive environment where every individual’s potential can thrive. All our positions are open to people with disabilities. If you need any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please inform your recruiter — we will be happy to support you.