LocationSheffield, United Kingdom# Database Principal Engineer at N Consulting LtdLocationSheffield, United KingdomSalary£400 - £450 /dayJob TypeContractDate PostedFebruary 20th, 2026Apply Now**Job Title: Database Principal Engineer****Location : Sheffield****Job Type: Contract – Hybrid- 3 DAYS ONSITE****Key Responsibilities:*** Develop and maintain the long-term strategy for database infrastructure, ensuring alignment with the bank’s overall IT and business strategies.* Function as a subject matter expert and advisor on all matters related to database technologies, providing guidance to senior leadership and IT teams.* Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and technical specifications.* Co-Lead the design and architecture of the bank’s shared database solutions (DBaaS/PaaS), followed by their implementation.* Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies and advancements in engineering practices, evaluating and recommending innovative solutions as appropriate.* Support the Platform Lead and identify solutions to engineering gaps/challenges.* Facilitate development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps/challenges.* Act as key point of contact for engineering decisions from a technical and risk perspective.* Look to innovate/improve processes, reducing hand-offs and automate processes.**Experience, Technical Skills and Qualifications Required:*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant discipline.* 10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position.* Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.* Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning.* Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design.* Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code.* Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.* Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions.* Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer* Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.* Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.* Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.* Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.* Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate and convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.* Experience of evaluating multiple technology solutions in order to define and design best fit for a particular use case.
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