Senior Database and Application Support Engineer

Foresters Financial; Bromley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Une forte opportunité chez un leader des solutions financières, recherchant un ingénieur senior en bases de données pour intervenir sur la maintenance et le développement de systèmes critiques. Dans ce rôle dynamique, vous participerez à des projets variés comme le dépannage d'incidents et le développement d'applications, tout en bénéficiant d'une flexibilité de travail à domicile après une période de formation. L'entreprise propose un salaire attractif accompagné d'avantages comme une assurance vie et un bonus annuel.

Benefits

Bonus annuel discrétionnaire

25 jours de congés annuels

Assurance vie

Qualifications

• Expérience solide en tant que DBA et/ou développeur systèmes.
• Expert en Microsoft SQL Server et administration de bases de données.
• Connaissance des concepts CI/CD et construction d'APIs.

Responsibilities

• Développer des vues, procédures stockées et packages SSIS.
• Gérer des incidents de 2ème et 3ème ligne pour les services technologiques.

Skills

Database administration

Microsoft SQL Server

Data analytics

SSIS

API development

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Posted:

02.06.2025

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17.07.2025

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The Opportunity

As our Senior Digital Solutions Engineer you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of application specialists and system technical experts. You will be involved in the end-to-end development and maintenance of our customer facing portal, internal systems, core administration systems and analytics.

You will be working with other internal IT teams to identify root cause, supporting technical and functional triage of incidents, being responsible for being the 2nd line and 3rd line for business critical applications and in responding to incoming incidents, queries and requests.

This opportunity is a mix of ensuring that both new and existing systems and services are running optimally end-to-end, analytics, and database administration. You will be involved in technical specifications, T-SQL development, deployment of SSIS packages or new releases, as well troubleshooting solutions.

Your day to day will include:

• Design and develop views, stored procedures and SSIS packages using Visual Studio.
• Providing advice, guidance and estimates to the development and technical process as required to ensure proposed solutions are operationally supportable.
• Undertaking 2nd-3rd line incidents and problem management for client-facing technology services, messaging / APIs, and business applications.
• Actively participating in the resolution of major incidents, post-incident reviews and change implementation reviews.
• Liaising with external suppliers of software and services, and other specialist teams within IT to resolve incidents.
• Responsibility for ensuring resolving complex application incidents and requests.
• Working with other IT teams to extend the DevOps framework and working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Systems design, development, code review, debugging, and support tests of bugs

Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times are flexible from 8.00am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home for 2/3 days a week.

What we require

• Solid experience as DBA and/or systems developer.
• Microsoft SQL Server expert, database administration, data movement, SSIS, and data analytics.
• Experience of development and deployment.
• Knowledge of concepts Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Passionate about providing quality service and willing to develop new skills.
• Experience of building APIs, RESTful services would be to an advantage.

What we offer you

• Basic salary up to £65,000 per annum
• Discretionary annual bonus dependent on your performance and company performance provided you are employed on bonus payment date.
• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance (based on pensionable earnings)