Senior SQL Database Administrator

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9 months ago
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Sellick Partnership are delighted to support our long-standing and regular clients with the recruitment of a Senior SQL Database Administrator.

The business are a well known socially focussed organisation based in Tyne & Wear who provide vital services to customers in the region.

The Senior SQL DBA will collaborate with cross-functional teams across the business to ensure scalability, security and reliability of the infrastructure database.

Responsibilities:

Optimise and develop SQL queries to extract, transform and load (ETL) data efficiently.
Ensure database reliability, scalability and security across the business.
Contribute to migrations and improvements with cloud and on-premise technologies.
Collaboration with stakeholders to analyse data requirements and to design physical and logical data models.
Translation of business needs into technical specifications for database structures.
Implementation of best practices.
Configure and maintain solutions such as SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, database clustering and mirroring to ensure business continuity.
Test and develop database recovery and backup procedures.What we are looking for:

Proven experience in data engineering and database administration in previous roles.
Proficient with SQL Server administration and Azure.
Experience with programming on-premise and cloud database solutions.
Experience with ETL processes and tools.
Knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and development methodology.Please apply before the 30th May to be considered for the opportunity.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website

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