Application Database Administrator

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering Oracle-to-DB2 database migrations.
• Strong DB2 administration experience within enterprise environments.
• Experience with DB2 installation, configuration, and ongoing support.
• Strong performance tuning and optimisation skills.
• Experience planning and executing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
• Expertise in database security, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Experience converting or refactoring Oracle PL/SQL procedures for DB2 environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience supporting business-critical production database platforms.
• Experience supporting IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) environments.
• Knowledge of large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with automation and database deployment tooling.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted or hybrid database environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle-to-DB2 migration activities, ensuring smooth transition and minimal business disruption.
• Install, configure, administer, and support DB2 database environments.
• Refactor and migrate Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures for DB2 compatibility.
• Develop and execute database migration strategies, plans, and validation activities.
• Perform performance monitoring, tuning, and optimisation of DB2 environments.
• Design and manage database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Support database security, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Troubleshoot database issues and provide root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and project teams throughout migration and deployment activities.
• Ensure database standards, operational procedures, and documentation are maintained.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• IBM
• Support
• Oracle
• SQL
• Security
• IBM Db2

More:

We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DB2) to support a major enterprise technology transformation programme involving large-scale database migration, optimisation, and platform modernisation activities. This is a hands-on role based in Derby with a hybrid working arrangement of 2 days per week onsite, on a contract running from October 2026 to May 2027. We require BPSS clearance to start and active SC clearance due to data migration activities commencing in November 2026. The rate is competitive market rates. This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of critical database environments during a significant upgrade and migration programme.

last updated 37 week of 2026