Full job descriptionData/ Database Engineer - RDBMS & NoSQLHybrid - 3 days onsite | Financial Services | Contract / Permanent
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to join a major financial services technology and data transformation programme.


This is not a traditional BAU DBA role. You’ll work closely with application teams and Data Architects to design, engineer and deploy database solutions into production, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and
modern engineering practices.


What You’ll Be Doing*Engineer and deploy Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database solutions
*Work with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase
*Build and configure database environments across development through to production
*Automate database provisioning, configuration and deployments
*Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines
*Support performance tuning, query optimisation and complex troubleshooting
*Engineer for high availability, resilience, security and recovery
*Support database migrations, upgrades and modernisation initiatives
*Work closely with developers, architects and infrastructure teams
What We’re Looking For*Strong hands-on Oracle and PostgreSQL experience
*Experience with at least one of Cassandra, MongoDB or Couchbase
*Strong database engineering, performance tuning and troubleshooting skills
*Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Python and/or Shell
*Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Git
*Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems
*Strong understanding of database security, resilience and operational risk
*Financial services, banking, capital markets or another regulated environment is highly desirable
The PersonYou’ll be a strong DBA who has evolved into a modern Database Engineer - technically hands-on, automation-focused and keen to replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, reusable engineering solutions.