Senior DBA Platform Engineer

MCS Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension

Health insurance

Wellness benefits

Job summary

MCS Group is partnering with an established software business to recruit a Senior Database / Data Platform Engineer for a new product development team in Belfast. You will own the database layer, optimise SQL and data pipelines, and help shape analytics for a security-focused product.

You'll work in a hybrid setup, spending at least two days in the Belfast office, with flexible hours and a supportive engineering team that values practical data solutions and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in database development, data engineering or a hands-on DBA role.
• Deep SQL knowledge and practical experience investigating and improving database performance.
• Experience building data pipelines, transformations and aggregations.
• An understanding of analytical workloads and how to make data solutions reliable in production.
• Programming experience, or clear aptitude and enthusiasm for developing those skills.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the database layer, writing and optimising SQL, improving data pipelines and designing efficient ways to handle analytical workloads.
• Working alongside software and ML engineers, you'll help turn complex data into a reliable foundation for customer-facing features.
• There's an existing prototype to build on, alongside scope to influence technical decisions as the product develops.

Skills

SQL expertise

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Analytical workloads

Programming aptitude

Tools

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

OLAP platforms

Azure

Parquet

Job description

Senior Database / Data Platform Engineer

Belfast | Hybrid - minimum 2 days in office | £70,000-£80,000

MCS Group is partnering with an established software business to recruit a Senior Database / Data Platform Engineer for a new product development team.

This is an opportunity to shape the data foundations of a new analytics and cybersecurity product, taking an existing prototype towards a production-ready release. You'll join a small team where your decisions will directly influence how the product stores, processes and analyses data.

The role

You'll take ownership of the database layer, writing and optimising SQL, improving data pipelines and designing efficient ways to handle analytical workloads. Working alongside software and ML engineers, you'll help turn complex data into a reliable foundation for customer-facing features.

There's an existing prototype to build on, alongside scope to influence technical decisions as the product develops.

What you'll bring

• Strong commercial experience in database development, data engineering or a hands-on DBA role.
• Deep SQL knowledge and practical experience investigating and improving database performance.
• Experience building data pipelines, transformations and aggregations.
• An understanding of analytical workloads and how to make data solutions reliable in production.
• Programming experience, or clear aptitude and enthusiasm for developing those skills.

ClickHouse will be central to the work, with PostgreSQL also in the environment. Experience with ClickHouse or another OLAP platform would be particularly valuable, although strong candidates from SQL Server, Oracle or other database backgrounds will also be considered.

Exposure to Azure, Parquet or querying data in object storage would be beneficial.

What's on offer

• £70,000-£80,000 depending on experience.
• Hybrid working, with a minimum of two days per week in Belfast.
• Flexible working hours.
• Pension, health insurance and wellness benefits.
• The opportunity to influence a new product within a small engineering team.

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation, if you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.