Lead Database Engineer - New Works, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money
Virgin Money
Verified Company
New Works, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
Route to Live Team, Data Platform

Salary Range:
Up to Circa £54,000 per annum DoE


Here is where we belong.

What do YOU get when you join Virgin MoneyRed Hot Rewards of course

  • 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if parttime).
  • Up to five extra paid wellbeing days per year.
  • A 35 hour working week.
  • 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
  • Market leading Pension.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness.
  • A digitalfirst colleague experience.
  • Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows).

All these benefits are available to colleagues from their first day. Have we got your attention?


Reporting to the Route to Live Manager, the role will involve engagement with, provide support, and present appropriate challenge to many roles across Digital & Innovation (D&I) function.

Liaising with management & consultants to provide technical advice and guidance for our non
- production database infrastructure, you'll engage with various stakeholders including Project Managers, Quality Assurance Managers & other technical staff.


You'll play a critical part in formulating and supporting changes to key technologies to support and drive forward the Route to Live Environment Support Strategy.


Day to Day you'll...

  • Actively promote Route to Live Support Model
  • Input to appropriate Testing related project documentation
  • Engage with Project to confirm environment requirements
  • Manage the test environment(s) roadmap and change management process
  • Identify trends and proactively deliver environment improvements to maintain and improve agreed level of environment availability
  • Plan and implement appropriate improvement initiatives into the test environments against agreed timetable
  • Conduct Defect/Issue/Problem investigation & resolution within their technical specialism, working with the relevant Service Centres to resolve
  • Support Senior database Engineers, offering support, guidance and be a technical escalation point to ensure all issues are resolved in a timely manner
  • Take ownership of technical issues, ensuring the correct stakeholders are engaged and involved to formulate and deliver a resolution

There are a few essentials you need to bring....

  • Significant experience as a DBA or similar working with and administering databases within large enterprise multiplatform environments
  • Proven Oracle knowledge covering 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 19c including Compression and TDE for 12c onwards
  • Expert knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery
  • Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues.
  • Qualified to an appropriate level in Oracle or MS SQL

The icing on the cake would be...

  • Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work independently and manage one's time
  • Mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback
  • Good track record of technical delivery
  • Strong working knowledge of Oracle Application Express
  • Linux and / or WINDOWS skills
  • Agile Project Delivery using relevant emerging toolsets eg TFS
  • Awareness of emerging Industry trends such as DBAS, SAAS, IAAS, PAAS
  • PL/SQL
We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the 'essentials you need to bring' section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don't let that put you off applying, we'd love to hear from you


Inclusion at Virgin Money

Now the legal bit


Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.


If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.
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