Senior Database & ETL Engineer - Hybrid Data Platform

Exalto Consulting; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Exalto Consulting is seeking a Senior Database & ETL Engineer in Bradford with hybrid working (2 days a week in the office). You will own and optimise our database estate, focusing on SQL Server and Teradata, while designing ETL/data integration solutions to move data across platforms.

You’ll balance operational support with engineering work, collaborating across data, applications, infrastructure, and analytics teams to deliver reliable, scalable data platforms and modernisation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong T-SQL development and database performance tuning skills.
• Experience administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise database platforms.
• ETL/ELT development experience, ideally including SSIS.
• Experience supporting backup, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience working with business-critical data pipelines and production support environments.
• The ability to work across both operational support and engineering-focused project work.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Teradata would be highly beneficial, while exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or other large-scale data platforms would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Administer, support, optimise, and develop the organisation's database estate (Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata).
• Design and support ETL and data integration solutions enabling data movement across platforms.
• Balance operational database ownership with hands-on engineering and data pipeline work.
• Collaborate with data, applications, infrastructure and analytics teams on day-to-day operations and modernisation initiatives.
• Contribute to platform reliability, security, performance, and availability.

Skills

T-SQL

DB performance tuning

Enterprise DB administration

SSIS ETL

Backup & DR

Data pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Hybrid teamwork

Tools

Teradata

SQL Server

Azure data services

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Exalto Consulting is seeking a Senior Database & ETL Engineer in Bradford with hybrid working (2 days a week in the office). You will own and optimise our database estate, focusing on SQL Server and Teradata, while designing ETL/data integration solutions to move data across platforms.

You’ll balance operational support with engineering work, collaborating across data, applications, infrastructure, and analytics teams to deliver reliable, scalable data platforms and modernisation initiatives.