Job Overview
We are a small team of three responsible for maintaining the SQL farm for King’s College Hospital (KCH) as well as the EPIC Cogito data warehouse for Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital (GSTT) used by the Business Intelligence teams. This role offers an opportunity for an experienced SQL database administrator with clustering experience to join us, become EPIC Cogito accredited, and support our SQL farm and Cogito estate across Denmark Hill and Waterloo sites. Some occasional out‑of‑hours work will be required to support overnight SQL ETL processes and late‑night Cogito software deployments.
Responsibilities
* Maintain the Microsoft SQL Database Farm.
* Support the EPIC Cogito databases and infrastructure and provide support to Caboodle business‑intelligence developers via code migrations, ETL support, and deployment of EPIC upgrades.
* Troubleshoot ETL issues and Cogito platform issues when required.
* Act as a training resource for developers, EPIC, and other Secure Data System support roles.
* Provide 3rd line support for Database Farm technical issues.
* Help define system requirements for new developments in conjunction with clinicians, clinical analysts, and project managers.
* Provide expert advice to other Trust system managers and the Trust in relation to procurement of high‑cost data systems.
* Develop software needed to support and complement the Trust’s databases.
* Provide expert technical documentation to support systems and system development.
* Demonstrate software solutions to other technical and clinical staff.
* Act as a technical liaison person for third‑party suppliers.
* Implement ICT policies and propose changes to improve service.
* Provide overtime/on‑call support during out‑of‑hours and escalating serious problems to senior team members.
Professional, Technical and Innovative Skills
* Ability to provide and present information ranging from simple to highly complex to an audience of any size with differing levels of understanding.
* Ability to analyse and form an opinion on solutions ranging from simple to highly complex when presented by several different suppliers.
* Ability to accurately produce written documents relating to standards and technical specifications.
* Stakeholder engagement – the ability to engage with local organisations and third‑party suppliers.
* Resource management – ability to identify resource needs.
* Ability to work with and deliver within a fixed project timescale.
* Willingness to ‘roll‑up the shirt sleeves’ and deliver.
* Communication skills – the ability to communicate clearly and effectively within the local organisation and external suppliers.
* Ability to manage and undertake formal testing activities.
* Ability to suggest and implement novel software and hardware solutions to particular clinical and non‑clinical IT related issues.
System Support
* Troubleshoot SQL farm and Cogito platform issues and resolve system issues quickly and responsibly.
* Installation and support of Database/Cogito systems software.
* Monitor the Database Farm and Cogito platform, identifying any issues and responding to them appropriately.
* Be the key contact for third‑party supplier’s support teams.
* Ensure that the good relationships that KCH and GSTT have with its suppliers are maintained.
* Ensure that the databases and services are running efficiently and effectively.
* Ensure that the procedures for the management of all Farm servers meet the needs of the system(s).
* Ensure that all databases are properly backed‑up and the disaster recovery procedures are effective and up to date.
* Regular health checks of the software and database.
For further information please refer to the attached job description and person specification document.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Mar 2026.
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