Senior Database Engineer - AWS

Experian Group; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design scalable database solutions. This role involves working with various teams to ensure data integrity and performance across applications. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases, along with excellent skills in database architecture and performance tuning.

Benefits

Personal Development Programs

Social Benefit Package

Work-Life Balance

Flexible Working Hours

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in database design and administration.
• Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms and managed database services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable database architectures.
• Lead database migrations and ensure high availability.
• Collaborate with developers and improve database performance.

Skills

Database Architecture

Performance Tuning

Data Modeling

Database Security

Collaboration

Technical Documentation

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer to design our data infrastructure. You will develop scalable, and secure database solutions that support our business applications and analytics platforms. Reporting into VP Architecture you will work with engineering, data science, and DevOps teams to ensure data integrity, performance, and availability across the organization.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement scalable database architectures for transactional workloads.
• Develop data models, schemas, and storage strategies that align with business requirements and performance goals.
• Define database standards, best practices, and governance policies.
• Collaborate with application developers and data engineers to improve queries, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.
• Lead database migration, replication, and backup/recovery strategies across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Monitor database performance, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Recommend new database technologies, and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to database administrators and data engineers.

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to accomplish their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Experience and Skills

What you'll bring:

• 6+ years of experience in database architecture, design, and administration.
• Expertise in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Experience with data modeling, normalization, and schema design.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS highly preferred) and managed database services.
• Proficiency in performance tuning, query optimization, and database security.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience creating technical documentation and communicating with stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal English.

Additional Information

You will get:

• Personal Development - career pathway for professional growth supported by learning and development programs and unlimited access to online educational training courses, learning materials and books.
• Work environment - excellent work conditions with friendly environment, recognized strong team spirit, and fun and quality recreation time.
• Social benefit package including life insurance, food vouchers, additional health insurance, monthly flex allowance and internet coverage, corporate discounts, marriage and childbirth / adoption allowance, Multisport card, Sharesave plan, Employee assistance program, а birthday gift and many other benefits!
• Work-life balance - 25 days paid vacation, 1 additional day off for your birthday and extra 3 paid days for participation in Social responsibility event.
• Opportunity for Flexible working hours and Home Office.

Experian is an Equal opportunity employer. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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