Data Platform Engineer

Job content

• Implementation, support, and maintenance of a broad range of database technologies, (SQL, Mongo, Oracle), and the associated platforms and Business Intelligence services, owning the current and future state to provide secure, high performing, scalable services to the business.
• Requirements gathering and implementation of new infrastructure projects.
• Undertaking operational and automation activities to keep platforms operating at their best and aligned with industry best practice (infrastructure as code, monitoring, alerting, reporting, security, updates, standards) including database backup & recovery and replication of database systems over various sites.
• Identifying and developing opportunities to provide continuous service improvement and enhanced customer experience, by optimising the performance of our database systems and/or increasing their resilience.
• Working with our different domain-specific software development teams to optimize code and stored procedures ensuring integrity, performance and security of the database is maintained.
• Optimising performance of database systems.
• Investigating opportunities for data integration across platforms and data stores.
• Managing database security and ensuring appropriate controls are in place and adhered to.
• Providing support and up-skilling to others in IT and the wider organisation as an escalation point.
  
  

• Significant experience of implementing and managing various database technologies including SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Experience with DB Reporting and Integration services and Data Warehousing.
• Experience with underlying clustering and operating system implementation and support (Windows Server, Linux).
• Detailed experience with implementing and troubleshooting database replication technologies.
• Experience with Business Intelligence capabilities and solutions (e.g. Power BI, Spotfire).
• Knowledge of Cloud-based alternatives and offerings to compliment on-premises infrastructures.
• Experience with event streaming, message brokers and other event driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) and familiarity with Big Data concepts.
• Ideally, managing and operating solutions via command line utilities and working to improve automation and enlist modern practises (DevOps, CI/CD, Ansible, Kubernetes etc.).
• Ideally, experience backed up by vendor certifications (e.g. Microsoft, Linux).
  
  

• A practical individual who is also comfortable strategising and dividing their time between project work, support, and maintenance, and able to work both independently and within a highly collaborative team.
• Organised and initiative-taking, able to communicate clearly, and willing to take ownership and accountability for their work in current and future platforms and processes.
• Keen to use intuition to perform deeper analysis of problems outside of initial skills and knowledge.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with continual demands and changing priorities.