Database Administrator

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Intrum. Home to a self-starting global team where you’re not only free to act on your ideas. Your decisions and actions actually matter. Discover how you can grow by making a difference and apply now for our exciting opportunity as a Database Administrator.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to advance their career within an expanding Financial Services business. In this role you will have direct responsibility for the maintenance of systems that have wide-reaching impact on numerous business applications. The role has scope to be involved in both short and long-term pieces of work

The successful candidate will interact with colleagues at all levels of the business and deal with users of IT services, IT teams, clients, suppliers and third parties. You will join a team of database professionals with vast knowledge and skill in Database design and maintenance

The role:

• You will provide advice and guidance on systems design, writing and optimizing SQL queries and using your experience to offer solutions to any SQL server related issues and provide support/be subject matter expert
• Use monitor tools (i.e. Spotlight) act upon incidents and service requests logged with the Service Desk, ensuring service tickets are resolved in a timely manner and with a high degree of expertise
• Refine physical database design to meet system storage requirements
• Install new applications and customize existing applications to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Manage security and disaster recovery of a database
• Install and test new version of database management systems (DBMS)
• Maintain database standards including adhering to data protection act and GDPR requirements
• Work directly on business-driven projects and change requests
• Write database documentation including procedures and definitions to the internal knowledge base
• Ensure the storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly (i.e. Ola Hallengren scripts, CommVault)
• Cloud/Azure and Azure backups
• Work closely with SQL developers

About You:

• Experience in Financial Services or heavily regulated industry
• Able to work effectively as part of a team or independently when needed
• Expert TSQL - 2012 – 2019
• Good understanding including troubleshooting of SSRS and SSIS packages
• SQL server replication
• Always On/Availability Groups knowledge
• Query optimisation and performance tuning
• SQL data migrations
• Installation and configuration of SQL
• Dev lifecycle/database progression: i.e. Dev/Test/UAT/Pre-prod/Production
• SQL server patching and upgrades
• PowerShell remote server management
• Awareness of anonymisation requirements & tools
• Ability to understand business complexity and application interdependencies
• Strong motivational skills to deliver tasks in difficult circumstances
• Self-motivated, proactive and customer focused with excellent organisational to work on improvement projects
• Experience of working in change control and third-party suppliers and partners
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise
• Strong analytical, written and verbal skills
• Comfortable managing small scale projects to time and budget if required.
• Knowledge of ITSM tools, e.g. ServiceNow
• Technical Documentation skills

About Intrum

As a multi-award-winning market-leading credit management company, Intrum has wide-ranging expertise in debt collection services, where we do business in 24 countries in Europe plus Latin America (Brazil). We have more than 10,000 experienced employees in our group.

Why Intrum?

Working for us means working for the international market leader. That not only sounds great. It also means working with the best people, the most exciting clients, the latest market innovations and the highest ethical standards.  Our business is about helping others. Helping individuals in debt get out of difficult situations. Assisting companies to get paid, so they can grow, employ and prosper. Which in turn is positive for the whole economy. You become an essential part of this circuit with us, which gives your job at Intrum a deeper meaning. Regardless of your role or title.

Our selection process. What to expect

We like to keep things simple, while at the same time ensuring the fit is right for you.

• We will firstly review your application to see if you’re a good match to the role
• If we feel there is a good match, we will invite you to a video or face to face interview and discuss the next stage of the selection process which will involve typically the potential line manager
• Our talent team will then be back in contact with you to gather your thoughts and provide feedback.

We offer a competitive salary and attractive benefits package, and we pride ourselves on rewarding success with our excellent bonus scheme and incentive package. We also have interactive subsidised events, colleague engagement teams, employee recognition and development programs.

We are an equal opportunities employer and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We will conduct credit, fraud, criminal record and reference checks as part of our pre-employment screening.  You should not be bankrupt, have any outstanding county court judgments on your credit file, nor have more than two registered defaults.

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