About the position
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.
RequirementsKey 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.
Desired Skills:
- SQL / PL-SQL
- Database Optimisation
- DB Automation
- Unix Shell
- Python / Perl
Desired Qualification Level:
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