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Full time
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Business Analysis

Job ID

R200001402

Closing date

23/01/2026

Last Updated

24/12/2025Summary
In details, the position encompasses duties and responsibilities as follows:
We are looking for a hands-on DBA Lead who can assume a pivotal role of leading a small team of DBAs responsible for the commissioning and operation of a varied DB landscape.
The successful candidate will have proven experience in working with Agile technologies, and will have strong knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques. You will identify the pain points, repetitive tasks and inefficient coding and replace them with devops automation using the best practices is an absolute must.

Sybase (Sybase ASE, IQ & Rep)

and

MS SQL

expertise are essential for the role. Exposure to Oracle is a strong plus as is knowledge of open source technologies. The role does entail a weekend Out-Of-Hours cover as part of the DBA team roster.
The ideal candidate disposes of:

Provide technical direction and guidance, recommending improvements to the current infrastructure platforms where appropriate
Ensure regular and clear updates on systems performance, management and maintenance
Work closely to ensuring alignment with the DevOps capability within the internal development team wherever relevant
Organise available resources and tasks across the team to address platform delivery timescales and risks.
Co-ordination, mentoring and technical leadership of a team of DBAs
Co-ordination of life-cycle management through delivery of roadmaps and 3rd party support agreements
Attendance of problem management sessions, managing 3rd parties and technical reviews for existing and proposed infrastructure as well as small project activities
Drive automation and efficiencies using scripting and a DevOps approach wherever possible
Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis
Owner of the DB refresh process across all environments (dev/test/uat/prod)
Technical skills transfer to colleagues both UK and abroad
Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome
Develop and implement administration standards and procedures
Create gap analysis based on operational input on current DBA infrastructure performance standards

Skills:
Excellent communicator with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels
Thorough knowledge of the DBA concepts and best practices
Knowledge of IS Architecture concepts and strategies as part of the Enterprise Content responsibility
Solid understanding of Database design
Expert level on Sybase ASE, IQ and Rep server
Experienced with scripting using shell scripting(ksh, bash)
Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis
Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities
High work standards with a quality orientation
Working as part of a team whilst showing an ability to work on own initiative
Good customer liaison skills and awareness of business requirements.
Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members.
Attention to detail.
Good problem solving.
The ability to think quickly under pressure.

Education & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Qualified to degree standard or able to demonstrate reasonable experience in similar role

Essential:

Experience of leading medium sized teams
Subject matter expert in SAP (Sybase) ASE, RepServer & IQ
Strong experience with MS SQL
Strong experience with SQL programming
Thorough understanding of shell scripting (bash, ksh and pyton)
Strong experience with RedHat Linux
Experienced with Database replication
Experience managing Delphix data platform
Experienced with Database clustering, high availability and disaster recovery
Proven experience of migrating to and managing IQ workloads in SAP Hana Cloud
Familiarity with Azure SQL administration, tuning and optimisation, Azure security and Azure automation and scripting
Scripting of DB snapshotting automation (leveraging REST APIs, Pure storage)

Desirable:

Experienced with Oracle technologies
Good understanding of Kubernetes technology
Knowledge of open-source technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Project management experience
Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2022 administration)
Basic understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies
Basic networking skills LAN/WAN, TCP/IP