Senior Microsoft SQL Developer - Fintech SaaS. Full Remote

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10 months ago
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This is a fantastic opportunity to join a ground-breaking Fintech SaaS company re-defining the way that financial advisers, platforms and private wealth managers report, communicate, and exchange data with their clients.
Ready to advance your career and join an industry leader with a constant mission to innovate?
Role Info:
Senior Microsoft SQL Developer
100% UK Remote
Up to £70,000
Plus Incredible Benefits Package including Life Assurance, Private Health Cover, Pension Scheme, and More…
Values: Innovative, Flexible, Responsive, Professional, Integrity
Product / Service: Fintech SaaS – Leading supplier of investment workflow and data distribution services to the UK financial advisory market. Our software integrates with most of the leading investment platforms and back-office systems in the UK.
Your Skills / Background: Design and Build of High Volume Database Architectures, TSQL, SQL, Performance Tuning.
Who we are:
We’re Sprint Enterprise Technology – a small, high-impact fintech company, doing big things in the UK wealth management industry, and we have the awards to prove it! Our mission is to bring about a more open and integrated wealth management industry by enabling the flow of rich and accurate data between systems.
We operate in a fast-paced, customer-first environment that embraces innovation. Our technology stack is Microsoft-based, running on a VMware virtualized private cloud, carefully managed by our own Infrastructure Engineers and our hosting partners. We run a network of SQL Servers, ensuring high availability and performance for our data-driven solutions.
Our product FINIO is the award winning data hub that connects investment platforms, discretionary fund managers with software providers and advisory firms for the flow of investment data. It helps the wealth management sector become more efficient, integrated and enables the flow of complex investment data that is increasingly required to power today’s software systems.
The Senior Microsoft SQL Developer role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Microsoft SQL Developer to work closely alongside our Chief Data Architect (ex Microsoft) and Head of Development to maintain and develop our current and future data centric financial technology solutions.
This is a fully remote opportunity within the fintech sector.
About you:
• An expert in the design and build of high performance / high volume database architectures
• Highly proficient in TSQL including Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, and UDF's
• Have in-depth knowledge of SQL Internal Architecture (Metadata, Indexes, Statistics etc.)
• Skilful in performance tuning (using all available tools / techniques), refactoring existing SQL, monitoring high availability clusters and patching live systems
• Experienced in SQL CLRs, SSRS, and Power BI
• As a key member of the team in a growing business, you must be a natural communicator
Additional useful skills and experience:
• SQL CLR's
• SSRS
• Power BI/SQL Reporting
• Power BI / on premise SSAS integration
• Experience of hybrid / full migration from on premise SQL to Azure
Why you’ll love this role:
• Work in a fully remote, highly collaborative environment in the fintech space
• Be part of a fast-moving, startup-style culture that values creativity and impact
• Engage directly with customers, making a real impact on their experience and satisfaction
• Enjoy a diverse, dynamic, and supportive work culture where your contributions make a real difference
What’s on Offer:
• Work from home (with funded meet ups from time to time)
• Flexible working (where practical)
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) plus ½ day for each year's service (to max 30 days)
• 2 days corporate social responsibility leave
• Holiday purchase scheme (buy/sell up to 5 days)
• Life Assurance (4 x salary)
• Contribution to Private Health Cover
• Subscription to a Wellbeing service and Employee Assistance Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme via Salary Sacrifice
• Salary Sacrifice for additional qualifying benefits (e.g. extra pension contributions, EV purchase)
Interested? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Leadership Team.
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