DBA | Asset Management - £90,000 per annum - London
A leading asset manager is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to support and enhance its enterprise database platforms, ensuring stability, resilience, and performance across mission-critical systems used by investment, operations, and risk teams.
This role sits within the core infrastructure function and will take ownership of the SQL Server and Oracle estate, shaping database strategy, supporting system reliability, and ensuring regulatory and operational standards are met.
You will manage high‑availability SQL Server and/or Oracle platforms across both production and non‑production environments, ensuring optimal performance and uptime for critical trading and investment systems. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting complex database issues, leading root‑cause analysis, optimizing database configurations and queries for low‑latency high‑throughput workloads, coordinating environment refreshes and data replication across development, UAT, and production, and implementing robust backup, recovery, and disaster‑recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities & Required Expertise
* Manage high-availability SQL Server and/or Oracle platforms across production and non-production environments, ensuring performance and uptime for critical trading and investment systems.
* Troubleshoot complex database issues and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
* Optimize database configurations and queries to support low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
* Coordinate environment refreshes and data replication across dev, UAT, and production, ensuring consistency and availability across the stack.
* Implement and maintain robust backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery strategies; participate in failover testing and incident response processes.
* Apply patches, manage upgrades, and enforce configuration standards in alignment with infrastructure change controls and regulatory expectations.
* Develop automation scripts (e.g. PowerShell, T‑SQL) to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
* Work closely with application development, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant solutions.
* Maintain comprehensive documentation, technical runbooks, and operational procedures; contribute to audit readiness and risk reviews.
* Guide and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence and shared accountability.
Skills
* Extensive experience administering Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle in financial services, particularly within asset or investment management.
* Deep understanding of high‑availability architecture, clustering, replication, performance tuning, and storage optimisation.
* Familiarity with supporting platforms such as Endur or other front‑to‑back trading systems is a strong advantage.
* Demonstrated ability to operate within control-heavy, regulated environments, with a strong track record in documentation and compliance.
* Exposure to cloud-hosted database platforms and modern infrastructure tools is beneficial.
If interested please come back with an updated CV as soon as possible!
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Finance
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