Database/Data Engineer

Data/ Database Engineer - RDBMS & NoSQL Hybrid - 3 days onsite | Financial Services | Contract / Permanent

We're looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to join a major financial services technology and data transformation programme.

This is not a traditional BAU DBA role. You'll work closely with application teams and Data Architects to design, engineer and deploy database solutions into production, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and

modern engineering practices.

What You'll Be Doing • Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions

• Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase


• Build and configure database environments across development through to production


• Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments


• Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines


• Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting


• Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery


• Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives


• Work closely with developers, architects and infrastructure teams

What We're Looking For • Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience

• Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase


• Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills


• Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git


• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems


• Strong understanding of database security, resilience and operational risk


• Financial services, banking, capital markets or another regulated environment is highly desirable

The Person You'll be a strong DBA who has evolved into a modern Database Engineer - technically hands-on, automation-focused and keen to replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, reusable engineering solutions.

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