KEY RESPONSIBILTIES
- 5 Plus years of experience in a DBA role.
- 3 Plus years of experience in a Senior DBA role.
- Relevant 3rd level technology qualification.
- Proven problem solving skills.
- The role will entail out of hours support responsibilities, shifts and weekend cover.
REQUIREMENTS
- Build and maintain database systems of high availability and quality.
- Manage and maintain backups of databases.
- Ensure databases are at optimal performance.
- Continuous review of queries from applications with a view to optimizing.
- Continuous review of indexing and statistics on key production databases.
- Continuous review and planning of data archiving strategies.
- Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to development teams accessing databases.
- Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards.
- Perform regular tests to ensure data security, privacy and integrity.
- Monitor database performance, changes and patching
Key Experience & Skills
- You should have worked in a fast paced eCommerce business.
- Intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and enthusiasm for tackling tough problems.
- Excellent debugging and problem solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of SQL DB data backup, recovery and security.
- Strong track record of database design, documentation and coding.
- Familiarity with entity framework generated queries and advantage.
- Ability to provide guidance/patterns/practices to development teams on how to construct data access queries from application code.
- Experience of SSIS, CDC and reporting tools such as Sharepoint/Looker and working with BI/Reporting teams to control access to data.
