Job Description
Julie Rose Recruitment is looking for a Database Administrator to join a market leader within the loans market. The candidate must have a strong financial background.
Hours: 35 hrs working week Monday – Friday
Location: Dartford
Salary: Up to £45,000
Benefits: Pension, insurances and annual/quarterly bonus
Holidays: 23 days (rising to 28 following 5 years’ service)
Duties for the Database Administrator:
- Experience administering and optimising large SQL Server databases
- Experience creating, maintaining and optimising stored procedures, database and ETL processes (SSIS). Solid planning/organisational and relationship management skills
- Solid experience creating and managing data warehouses in SQL Server
- Proven ability in designing complex queries in SQL Server, with experience using large databases
- Having an understanding of core DPA principles and managing the access to and destruction of data accordingly
- Relevant exposure to a similar regulatory reporting environment and proven data analysis expertise gained within a related financial services organisation
- Data visualisation and creation of dashboards and dynamic charts with data from SQL databases using Excel, SSRS and other BI tools (e.g. PowerBI etc.) would be advantageous
- Proactively managing the system databases
- Managing database backup routines
- Ensuring that data archiving, anonymisation and other routines are designed, built and monitored
- Managing secure access to the SQL estate, and ensuring permissions are correctly assigned
- Setting up monitoring mechanisms for core processes to ensure proactive responses
- Ensuring that replication is managed effectively, for reporting and analysis purposes
- Responsibility for data migration, insertion and extraction as required
- Capacity planning for future growth
- Managing SQL upgrades and patches, with minimal downtime
Personal Specification for the Database Administrator:
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent communication skills (telephone and written)
- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
- Sound judgment
- Initiative
- Flexible
- Detail-oriented
Experience for the Database Administrator:
- 5 years + supporting MS and MySQL Server databases
- Financial services experience
- SQL Server 2014 and upwards experience
- Windows clustering and Windows Server experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Red Hat Linux experience is desirable