Senior Database Engineer / Specialist

We are looking for a Senior Database Specialist to join an enterprise technology environment, with a strong focus on database architecture, performance optimisation, automation and database ecosystem integration.

The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and enhancing automated database builds, monitoring capabilities and enterprise database solutions, while supporting performance, security, scalability and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Define and contribute to firmwide database strategies and technology roadmaps.

• Design and implement DBaaS patterns across physical and virtualised infrastructure.

• Develop database build standards, automation and build support.

• Drive database ecosystem integration across tooling, monitoring and security.

• Develop and maintain database security engineering standards.

• Develop and enhance automated database builds using Unix Shell, Perl, Python, SQL and PL/SQL.

• Develop and implement monitoring and control centre solutions covering availability, utilisation, capacity trends and overall database health.

• Design and implement database solutions aligned to existing enterprise architecture.

• Analyse database workloads and performance to identify bottlenecks and optimisation opportunities.

• Define safe concurrency limits and recommended scaling strategies.

• Analyse controlled load test results and workload versus performance.

• Identify and optimise high-impact queries, including query rewrites, indexing and execution plans.

• Eliminate inefficient polling patterns and improve processing architecture.

• Develop optimal data retention strategies and reduce database footprint and growth risk.

• Develop and implement database performance optimisation plans.

• Support balanced workload distribution across the database environment.

Required Experience & Skills

• Strong Senior Database Specialist / Database Engineering experience.

• Experience with database architecture, performance optimisation and enterprise database environments.

• Strong hands-on SQL and PL/SQL experience.

• Experience with Unix Shell scripting.

• Experience with Python and/or Perl for database automation.

• Experience developing/enhancing automated database builds.

• Experience with database monitoring, availability, capacity and health metrics.

• Strong understanding of query optimisation, indexing and execution plans.

• Experience identifying workload bottlenecks and performance issues.

• Experience with database security and enterprise standards.

• Understanding of source code control, modular programming and software release management.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• POS Application experience beneficial.

Ideal Candidate

A technically strong database specialist who can operate across database architecture, automation, performance engineering, monitoring and optimisation, while communicating effectively with senior management, business stakeholders and wider technical teams.