Job overview
Barts Health ICT is seeking an experienced and skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to lead on the Trust’s large SQL database environments and work as part of the ICT Server Team.
In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining, configuring, optimising, and developing the Trust’s database infrastructure. You will ensure the availability, performance, integrity, and security of all databases across the organisation.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in SQL Server database administration, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and database design. Experience with virtualisation technologies and their configuration is also essential.
Proposed interview date 29/06/2026 TBC
Main duties of the job
1. Review, develop, and promote efficiency and stability across the Relational Database Management (RDBMS) environment, ensuring databases are secure and protected.
2. Act as a technical lead and subject matter expert (SME) for database design, implementation, and optimisation across live and test environments.
3. Monitor and tune database environments to ensure optimal system performance, integrity, and availability.
4. Analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve complex database issues, minimising downtime and ensuring rapid restoration of services.
5. Develop and enforce policies and procedures for database management, security, and maintenance.
6. Lead technical delivery of database-related projects, ensuring completion within time, cost, and quality expectations, including risk identification and mitigation.
7. Perform software installation and configuration, working with third-party suppliers where required.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
8. Proven experience in a similar position within a large organisation, preferably over 5,000 users.
9. Significant experience (7-10 years) in managing SQL environments in virtualised environment.
10. Some experience (2-4 years) in managing SQL cloud services
11. Experience of supporting digital transformation projects (2-4 years) (migrating to the cloud, consolidating applications to one, consolidating application instances).
12. Experience (5years) in technical project management, including planning, execution, and monitoring
13. Proven track record in implementing security measures and managing IT costs through application lifecycle
14. Collaborations to improve service delivery and innovation
15. 5-7 years of experience in IT, with at least 2 years focused SQL Database Technologies
Skills
Essential criteria
16. Ability to devise, measure, and monitor SLAs/KPIs
17. Interpersonal and Organizational Skills
18. Develop, track, and report on service level agreements and key performance indicators
19. Produce metrics, analyse, interpret information, and produce regular reports on status and trends
20. Identify types of data, determine relationships among data entities and establish business rules and data integrity requirements
21. Ability analyses problems and establishes a technical fix
22. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with a range of people including executives, management, and individual contributors (clinical and non-clinical)
23. Able to convey information by email, telephone and face-to-face to staff of all levels
24. Resource management – ability to identify and plan work and supervise the workload of team members
Knowledge
Essential criteria
25. Ability to devise, measure, and monitor SLAs/KPIs
26. Interpersonal and Organizational Skills
27. Develop, track, and report on service level agreements and key performance indicators
28. Produce metrics, analyse, interpret information, and produce regular reports on status and trends.
29. Identify types of data, determine relationships among data entities and establish business rules and data integrity requirements
30. Ability analyses problems and establishes a technical fix.
31. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with a range of people including executives, management, and individual contributors (clinical and non-clinical)
32. Able to convey information by email, telephone and face-to-face to staff of all levels
33. Resource management – ability to identify and plan work and supervise the workload of team members
Qualifications
Essential criteria
34. Educated to a degree level or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
35. Professional Training Courses – MS SQL administration, Design, and implementation
Desirable criteria
36. Relevant training courses (e.g., VMware, Storage Management, Hypervisor).
37. PRINCE2 or similar.
38. Certifications: MCSA Database Administration, MSCE: Data Management, ITIL Foundation
Visa Sponsorship Information
This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.