DBA/Data Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in high volume, real time transactional environments with high concurrency and uptime requirements (e.g. logistics, e-commerce, financial systems)
• Strong hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in a production environment
• Advanced SQL skills including DML (complex queries, stored procedures, CTEs, window functions) and DDL (schema design, indexing strategies, triggers)
• Deep understanding of query performance tuning, execution plans, and indexing
• Knowledge of locking, blocking, and deadlocks
• Experience with performance monitoring tools (Profiler, Extended Events, DMVs)
• Knowledge of SQL Server Agent and automation
• Experience with SSAS and SSRS
• Strong understanding of database security and access control
• Experience managing backups, restores, and maintenance plans
• Knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions and business continuity planning
• Familiarity with MySQL and cloud based managed database services (e.g. AWS RDS, Azure SQL)
• Exposure to data warehousing and ETL processes, including supporting reporting and analytics workloads
• Experience supporting business intelligence (BI), reporting, and dashboarding solutions, including Microsoft Power BI
• Exposure to modern analytics and AI assisted business intelligence capabilities within platforms such as Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Copilot, or cloud AI/ML services
• Experience with monitoring tools

Responsibilities:

• Write, optimise, and maintain SQL code to support business and operational systems
• Develop and enhance stored procedures, views, functions, and advanced query constructs (including CTEs and window functions)
• Design and maintain database schema using DDL, including tables, indexes, constraints, and triggers
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and quality across all systems
• Support developers and analysts with efficient and scalable data access patterns
• Monitor and proactively improve database performance across live environments
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using execution plans, query analysis, and index/statistics optimisation
• Manage and optimise transactions, locking, blocking, and deadlocks
• Conduct real-time troubleshooting of performance issues impacting operations
• Use tools such as SQL Profiler and Extended Events to diagnose performance issues
• Investigate and resolve production incidents and perform root cause analysis
• Manage database security, including users, roles, and permissions
• Ensure adherence to security best practices, data protection standards, and compliance requirements
• Support SQL Server BI capabilities, including SSAS (cube preparation) and SSRS (report development and maintenance)
• Create, manage, and monitor SQL Server Agent jobs
• Automate routine database operations, including backups and maintenance tasks
• Implement and maintain database maintenance activities, including index and performance optimisation
• Support capacity planning and scalability improvements
• Design, manage, and test backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes
• Perform database server administration, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and storage management

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud
• Copilot
• ETL
• Support
• MySQL
• Network
• Power BI
• SQL
• Security
• SSAS

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We are The APC, the UKs largest independent parcel delivery network, with more than 90 locations nationwide and millions of parcels delivered every month. Headquartered in Cannock, we operate in a fast paced, high-volume environment where reliability, clarity, and continuous improvement are essential. This is a hands-on Database Administrator role focused on day-to-day database operations, performance optimisation, and continuous improvement. The role is remote, with one day working from Cannock per month, and is based in hybrid remote in Cannock WS11 8AA. The advertised pay is up to £60,000 per year.

last updated 38 week of 2026