DBA | Asset Management - £90,000 per annum - London

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 will sit within the firm’s core infrastructure function and take ownership of the SQL Server and Oracle estate, playing a key role in 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. Troubleshooting complex database issues and leading root‑cause analysis to prevent recurrence will be key aspects of the role. You will optimise database configurations and queries to support low‑latency, high‑throughput workloads and coordinate environment refreshes and data replication across development, UAT, and production environments to maintain consistency and availability. Implementing and maintaining robust backup, recovery, and disaster‑recovery strategies, as well as participating in failover testing and incident response processes, will also be essential. Additionally, you will apply patches, manage upgrades, and enforce configuration standards in alignment with infrastructure change controls and regulatory requirements. Developing automation scripts using tools such as PowerShell and T‑SQL will help streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.

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.
• Optimise 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.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Finance

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