Database Administrator / Database Engineer / SQL Developer

Role Description The Database Administrator / Database Engineer / SQL Developer designs, maintains, optimises, and secures database systems that support business applications, reporting, analytics, and operational processes. This role ensures that data is accurate, available, performant, protected, and accessible to authorised users while supporting the reliable operation of critical technology platforms. The position works closely with software developers, data engineers, business analysts, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity specialists, and application owners to design database solutions, develop SQL code, manage data integrations, and resolve technical issues. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining databases, writing queries and stored procedures, monitoring performance, managing backups and recovery, supporting migrations, and troubleshooting data or application incidents. The role also strengthens data reliability and operational resilience by implementing security controls, access-management procedures, data-quality checks, monitoring practices, and technical documentation. It identifies database bottlenecks, improves query performance, supports platform modernisation, and ensures database environments comply with organisational standards, privacy requirements, and business-continuity needs. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.Experience in database administration, database engineering, SQL development, data engineering, application support, or a related role.Strong proficiency in SQL, including writing complex queries, joins, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and performance-optimised database code.Experience administering relational database-management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, IBM Db2, or similar platforms.Ability to design database schemas, data models, tables, indexes, constraints, and relationships that support application and reporting requirements.Experience monitoring database availability, performance, capacity, replication, locking, query execution, and system resource utilisation.Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, restoration, disaster-recovery, high-availability, and business-continuity procedures.Experience troubleshooting database incidents, data issues, slow queries, failed jobs, integration errors, and application-performance problems.Understanding of database security, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, auditing, data masking, and secure credential management.Familiarity with data migration, ETL or ELT processes, data integration, APIs, batch jobs, and data-quality validation.Experience using database-development and administration tools such as SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, pgAdmin, DBeaver, or similar platforms.Knowledge of cloud database services such as Microsoft Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar platforms is advantageous.Familiarity with scripting, automation, version control, and deployment practices using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Git, CI/CD, or similar technologies is beneficial.Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.Relevant certifications in Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, or database administration are an advantage.