Senior DBA / Platform Engineer - ClickHouse, OLAP, Azure (Belfast, Northern Island)

Talent Focus Executive Search and Consulting; Belfast City District; Hybride; GBP 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Generous holiday allowance

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working

Résumé du poste

Talent Focus Executive Search and Consulting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is seeking a Senior DBA / Platform Engineer to own the data store core of a growing security software platform. You will design and run OLAP data stores built on ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and cloud object storage, joining a small, fast-moving engineering team to shape architecture from early on.

This role offers hybrid work with at least two days in the Belfast office, a chance to tackle billions-of-rows scale, optimize

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DBA, data platform or similar engineering role.
• Hands-on OLAP experience.
• Deep knowledge of the MergeTree engine family: partitioning, TTLs, materialised views, Distributed tables and sharding.
• ETL/ELT pipeline design and operation, both batch and near-real-time.
• Experience using Parquet and object storage (Azure Blob or S3) as a query tier.
• Strong query performance tuning and capacity planning skills.
• Excellent SQL and solid PostgreSQL competence.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Responsabilités

• Design, build and operate OLAP data stores, including schema design, partitioning, sharding and lifecycle management.
• Build and run ETL/ELT pipelines for both batch and near-real-time workloads.
• Tune query performance and plan capacity as data volumes grow.
• Use Parquet and object storage (Azure Blob / S3) as a cost-efficient query tier.
• Work with engineers across the team on system integration and platform decisions.
• Hold the platform to a high standard of quality and reliability so clients get a superior experience.

Connaissances

OLAP systems

MergeTree engine

ETL/ELT pipelines

Parquet/Blob storage

SQL proficiency

PostgreSQL expertise

Performance tuning

Communication skills

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field

Outils

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Azure Blob Storage

Amazon S3

Description du poste

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (Hybrid, minimum 2 days per week in office)

Employment type: Full-time

The company

Our client is a growing data security and governance software company, headquartered in the US, with teams across the US, England and Northern Ireland. Their platform helps organisations understand, classify and secure their data. That reduces their financial and regulatory risk and helps them make better business decisions.

The opportunity

Our client is extending their platform from compliance and data governance into cybersecurity. We’re looking for a Senior DBA / Platform Engineer to own the data store at the core of it.

You’ll design and run high-volume analytical data platforms built on ClickHouse, PostgreSQL and cloud object storage. You’ll join a small, fast-moving engineering team and help make key technical decisions from early on. If you enjoy hard data problems at billions-of-rows scale and want real influence over a new product’s architecture, this role is for you.

What you’ll do

• Design, build and operate OLAP data stores, including schema design, partitioning, sharding and lifecycle management.
• Build and run ETL/ELT pipelines for both batch and near-real-time workloads.
• Tune query performance and plan capacity as data volumes grow.
• Use Parquet and object storage (Azure Blob / S3) as a cost-efficient query tier.
• Work with engineers across the team on system integration and platform decisions.
• Hold the platform to a high standard of quality and reliability so clients get a superior experience.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years in a DBA, data platform or similar engineering role.
• Hands-on OLAP experience.
• Deep knowledge of the MergeTree engine family: partitioning, TTLs, materialised views, Distributed tables and sharding.
• ETL/ELT pipeline design and operation, both batch and near-real-time.
• Experience using Parquet and object storage (Azure Blob or S3) as a query tier.
• Strong query performance tuning and capacity planning skills.
• Excellent SQL and solid PostgreSQL competence.
• A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Production ClickHouse experience at billions-of-rows scale.
• Azure platform knowledge: managed identity, Private Link, storage account patterns.
• Lambda-style speed/batch architectures and re-runnable partitions.
• Experience with security event or observability data.
• ClickHouse statistical functions such as quantiles, entropy and windowed aggregates.
• Experience working in Agile teams.

What's on offer

• Health insurance and wellness programmes.
• Generous holiday allowance and paid time off.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working.
• The chance to shape a new cybersecurity product from the ground up.

Location and eligibility

This role is based in Northern Ireland. It’s hybrid, with a minimum of 2 days per week in our client's Belfast office. You must have the right to live and work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available.