Senior Database Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven hands-on experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
• Strong T-SQL development and database performance tuning skills.
• Experience administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise database platforms.
• ETL/ELT development experience, ideally including SSIS.
• Experience supporting backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience working with business-critical data pipelines and production support environments.
• The ability to work across both operational support and engineering-focused project work.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Teradata would be highly beneficial, while exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or other large-scale data platforms would be advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• We will administer, support, optimise, and develop our database estate, with a particular focus on Microsoft SQL Server and Teradata environments.
• We will design and support ETL and data integration solutions that enable reliable movement of data across operational, reporting, analytics, and warehouse platforms.
• We will combine database administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, automation, data engineering, and project delivery in our day-to-day work.
• We will work closely with colleagues across data, applications, infrastructure, and analytics teams to support day-to-day operations and longer-term platform modernisation initiatives.
• We will ensure our business-critical platforms remain secure, resilient, performant, and available.
• We will contribute to the ongoing development of data pipelines and platform improvements.

Technologies:

• Azure
• ETL
• Fabric
• Support
• SQL
• SSIS
• Cloud

More:

We are partnering with a well-established organisation that operates at significant scale and relies on robust, high-performing data platforms to support critical business services. This Senior Database & ETL Engineer role is based in Bradford with hybrid working (2 days a week in the office) and offers a competitive salary, benefits, and an OOH allowance. It provides the opportunity to influence the reliability and future direction of our core data platforms while working across established technologies and modernisation initiatives. Our team values technical expertise, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and thoughtful problem-solving.

last updated 35 week of 2026