Database Administrator Resilience

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Our client has been in business since 1765 and are the UK's largest Bank. Data resilience instils confidence and trust with customers, the Data Resilience team are expanding, and they are looking for a Database Administrator to join the team.

Role: Database Administrator (Resilience)

Contract: 6 Months (extension options)

Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office)

Rate: £750 per day (inside ir35 Umbrella)

As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience.
• Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached.
• Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks.
• Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps.
• Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications.
• Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained.
• Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures.
• Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases
• Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience.
• Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders.

About you

• 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable)
• Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5)
• Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies.
• Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild.
• Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures.
• Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation).
• Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory.
• Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Its great if you have:

• Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains.
• Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery.
• Experience in Data Mesh.
• Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW).
• Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.