ICT Senior Database Administrator
Applications close 07 June 2026
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced ICT Senior Database Administrator to join our ICT team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in maintaining and developing the database platforms that support critical clinical and non‑clinical services across one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals. In this role you will help ensure that our database environments remain secure, resilient, high performing and fit for the future.
This permanent role is based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London and is offered at Agenda for Change Band 8a, 37.5 hours per week.
Main Duties
* Maintain the availability, performance and security of Trust database platforms that support clinical and non‑clinical applications.
* Provide expert administration of SQL Server environments and other relational database management systems.
* Lead on database backup, recovery, patching and resilience to ensure service continuity and compliance with service expectations.
* Troubleshoot complex database issues and work closely with internal teams and third‑party suppliers to deliver timely resolutions.
* Support database‑related projects, system improvements and operational performance initiatives across the Trust.
* Promote best practice in database usage, security and governance with technical teams and business stakeholders.
* Help ensure that data is accessible only to appropriately authorised personnel.
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level, or equivalent (e.g. extensive experience in senior DBA role).
* MS SQL DBA qualification.
* ITIL Foundation qualification.
* Professional membership (BCS or UKCHIP level 2 minimum).
Experience & Knowledge
* Minimum 5 years technical DBA experience gained within a busy IT Operations department.
* Experience of troubleshooting technical and performance problems with SQL Server architectures.
* Experience of troubleshooting technical and performance problems with other RDBMS architectures.
* Demonstrable experience porting data from different environments to SQL Clusters (e.g. MS Access, Oracle).
* Significant experience in a role that required day‑to‑day line management including enforcement of SLAs.
* Knowledge of an environment that utilised SSRS, SSIS, HA SQL Server clusters.
* Experience of working in the NHS.
* Experience of project work using industry recognised methodologies such as Prince2 or ITIL.
* Significant experience utilising the ITIL framework in service delivery.
* Experience configuring and managing SQL in a public cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.
Skills and Abilities
* Strong negotiating and influencing skills – able to work positively as a team manager.
* Highly articulate – particularly able to express technical ideas to a non‑technical audience.
* Ability to reprioritise work streams as required by unexpected events.
* Ability to translate user / business requirements into technical plans or proposals.
* Technical expertise in all the core areas covered by the department.
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £66 274 to £73 496 per annum inclusive.
Contract: Permanent.
Working pattern: Full‑time, 37.5 hours per week.
Reference number: 271‑ICT‑7880914.
Job location: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.
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