Senior SQL Specialist


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Royal London - AMS

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16th January 2020

Location

Edinburgh

Type

Permanent

Start Date

2020-01-16

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Founded in 1861, we're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Our award-winning customer service and our mutuality means we can give customers that little bit more, and you can trust us to be there for you when it counts.

Senior SQL Specialist

Edinburgh

Contract Type - Permanent

Closing date - 02/02/19

At Royal London we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most trusted and recommend financial company in the UK.

We are the largest mutual life, pensions and Investment Company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £118.9 billion and latest ProfitShare pay out to members of £142 million. Group businesses provide around 9.0 million policies and employ 3,976 people (figures as of 05 Feb 2019).

We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Senior SQL Server DBA Specialist to join our group technology and change team in either our Edinburgh or Wilmslow office.

The main purpose of the role will to be responsible for the administration and support of all production, test, development and training environments through oracle. The SQL Server specialist will also be responsible for contributing to the wider business area and work closely with the Infrastructure Manager to define policies and set standards to improve efficiency over the estate.

What will you be doing

Providing technical consultancy in all areas of SQL Server technology

Ownership of all aspects of Royal London's SQL Server estate, co-authoring roadmaps and providing guidance to the architectural function

Assisting and supporting the Oracle estate would be highly advantageous

Enhancing services through innovation and leading solution designs. Identifying opportunities for improvement in services

Working closely with IT project managers to agree timescales for deliverables and implementation changes

Support and mentoring the wider DBA team

What we're looking for

Technical expertise in SQL Server

Strong T-SQL skills

Experience of DBMS best practice

Proficient in Windows Operating systems

Appreciation of the development life cycle

Proficient in the support and maintenance methods and licence management

Have an understanding of other software and hardware that use database systems and how they work

Experience of designing technical solutions

Skills that will help you in the role

Knowledge of other operating systems and RDBMs would be an advantageous

Excellent written and oral communications skills

Good mentoring skills and technical leadership skills

Comfortable working to tight deadlines and working autonomously

Willingness to work out of hours and on-call when required

Comfortable working in a team and support colleagues throughout the business

Excellent problem solving and decision making skills

What we offer

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 

Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It's what makes Royal London a great place to work.

Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.

Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills - whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for all our roles. We also welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break.

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