DBA and Middleware Manager

Babcock International; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension

Digital GP and DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal for staff

Professional Fees paid

10 days reservist leave

Holiday Trading and Be Kind Day

Wellbeing and development programme

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a DBA Manager to lead Oracle database and middleware services in a hybrid role based in Bristol/Stoke Gifford. You will guide a team, drive performance, security, and reliability, and help transition to an in-house function.

The role emphasizes leadership of technical teams, delivery of project plans, and collaboration with cross-functional groups to implement new digital solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience managing database and middleware environments in complex systems.
• Leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Familiar with Oracle technologies such as WebLogic, SOA Suite, Identity Management, and modern Oracle database platforms.
• Experience working with Windows and Linux server environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to optimise performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team to deliver high-performing Oracle database and middleware services
• Developing project plans, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery
• Driving continuous improvement through automation, optimisation, and best practice
• Managing system performance, security, and availability across critical platforms
• Collaborating with technical teams to deliver new applications and system improvements

Skills

Oracle databases

WebLogic

SOA Suite

Identity Management

Leadership

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Education

ITILv4 qualification or higher

Tools

Oracle Database

WebLogic

SOA Suite

Identity Management

Job description

DBA and Middleware Manager

Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: DBA Manager

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74272

Lead critical digital systems supporting national security

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Data Base Administration (DBA) Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a DBA Manager, you’ll lead the delivery and performance of critical Oracle database and middleware services that support defence and engineering operations. You’ll be responsible for ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and optimised, helping teams across the business deliver vital programmes with confidence.

Day-to-day, you’ll shape both technology and people capability. You’ll guide a team of specialists, support the transition to an in-house function, and play a key part in delivering new digital solutions. It’s an opportunity to grow your leadership skills while working on systems that directly enable national defence and infrastructure.

• Leading a team to deliver high-performing Oracle database and middleware services
• Developing project plans, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery
• Driving continuous improvement through automation, optimisation, and best practice
• Managing system performance, security, and availability across critical platforms
• Collaborating with technical teams to deliver new applications and system improvements

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires on site attendance in Bristol 2-3 days per week

Essential experience of the DBA Manager

• Experience managing database and middleware environments in complex systems
• Leadership experience managing technical teams
• Familiar with Oracle technologies such as WebLogic, SOA Suite, Identity Management, and modern Oracle database platforms
• Experience working with Windows and Linux server environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to optimise performance and reliability

Qualifications for the DBA Manager

• Relevant professional experience in database administration or IT infrastructure management
• ITILv4 qualification or higher - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain SC security clearance and also hold additional clearances as required for the role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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