Database Administrator

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