Database/Data Engineer

Data/ Database Engineer - RDBMS & NoSQL

Hybrid - 3 days onsite | Financial Services | Contract / Permanent

We're looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to join a major financial services technology and data transformation programme.

This is not a traditional BAU DBA role . You'll work closely with application teams and Data Architects to design, engineer and deploy database solutions into production, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and

modern engineering practices .

What You'll Be Doing

Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions

Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase

Build and configure database environments across development through to production

Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments

Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines

Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting

Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery

Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives

Work closely with developers, architects and infrastructure teams

What We're Looking For

Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience

Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase

Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills

Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git

Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems

Strong understanding of database security, resilience and operational risk

Financial services, banking, capital markets or another regulated environment is highly desirable

The Person

You'll be a strong DBA who has evolved into a modern Database Engineer - technically hands-on, automation-focused and keen to replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, reusable engineer...