Sybase DBA Lead - Commodities - London

Scope AT Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in London is searching for a DBA Lead to manage a small team of DBAs. You will be responsible for overseeing the DBA estate, ensuring efficient operations, and driving automation in a dynamic environment. The successful candidate must have strong expertise in Sybase, MS SQL, and scripting, alongside proven leadership experience. This role includes weekend Out-Of-Hours duty and requires a strategic mindset to tackle challenges effectively.

Benefits

Opportunity for skill development

Dynamic work environment

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Experience of leading medium-sized teams.
• Subject matter expert in Sybase ASE, RepServer & IQ.
• Strong experience with SQL programming.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and guidance to the DBA team.
• Organise resources across the team for platform delivery.
• Drive automation and efficiencies using Scripting.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of DBA concepts

Solid understanding of Database design

Expert level on Sybase ASE, IQ, and Rep server

Experienced with Scripting

Ability to perform risk analysis

Good problem-solving skills

Education

Degree in relevant field or equivalent experience

Tools

Sybase

MS SQL

RedHat Linux

Oracle

Job description

DBA Lead - Sybase - Commodity Trading - London

Summary

In details, the position encompasses duties and responsibilities as follows: We are looking for a hands‑on DBA Lead who can assume a pivotal role of leading a small team of DBAs responsible for the commissioning and operation of a varied DB landscape. The current DB estate consists of a mixture of Sybase, Oracle and SQL. The role will suit a DBA team lead managing a small DBA team and overseeing the DBA estate for a medium sized enterprise. The person taking over the role will provide mentorship to the team, articulate the DBA strategy and lead the team to deliver the strategy. The successful candidate will have proven experience in working with Agile technologies, and will have strong knowledge of Scripting methodologies and techniques. Ability to identify the pain points, repetitive tasks and inefficient coding and replace them with DevOps automation using best practices is an absolute must. The role does entail a weekend Out‑Of‑Hours cover as part of the DBA team roster. Sybase (Sybase ASE, IQ & Rep) and MS SQL expertise are essential for the role. Exposure to Oracle is a strong plus as is knowledge of open source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and guidance, recommending improvements to the current infrastructure platforms where appropriate
• Ensure regular and clear updates on systems performance, management and maintenance
• Work closely to ensuring alignment with the DevOps capability within the internal development team wherever relevant
• Organise available resources and tasks across the team to address platform delivery timescales and risks.
• Co‑ordination, mentoring and technical leadership of a team of DBAs
• Co-ordination of life cycle management through delivery of roadmaps and 3rd party support agreements
• Attendance of problem management sessions, managing 3rd parties and technical reviews for existing and proposed infrastructure as well as small project activities
• Drive automation and efficiencies using Scripting and a DevOps approach wherever possible
• Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis
• Owner of the DB refresh process across all environments (dev/test/UAT/prod)
• Technical skills transfer to colleagues both UK and abroad
• Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome
• Develop and implement administration standards and procedures
• Create gap analysis based on operational input on current DBA infrastructure performance standards

Skills

• Excellent communicator with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels
• Thorough knowledge of the DBA concepts and best practices
• Knowledge of IS Architecture concepts and strategies as part of the Enterprise Content responsibility
• Solid understanding of Database design
• Expert level on Sybase ASE, IQ and Rep server
• Experienced with Scripting using Shell Scripting(ksh, bash)
• Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis
• Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities
• High work standards with a quality orientation
• Working as part of a team whilst showing an ability to work on own initiative
• Good customer liaison skills and awareness of business requirements.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members.
• Attention to detail.
• Good problem solving.
• The ability to think quickly under pressure.

Education & Experience Requirements

Qualified to degree standard or able to demonstrate reasonable experience in similar role

Essential

• Experience of leading medium sized teams
• Subject matter expert in SAP (Sybase) ASE, RepServer & IQ
• Strong experience with MS SQL
• Strong experience with SQL programming
• Thorough understanding of Shell Scripting (bash, ksh and pyton)
• Strong experience with RedHat Linux
• Experienced with Database replication
• Experience managing Delphix data platform
• Experienced with Database clustering, high availability and disaster recovery
• Proven experience of migrating to and managing IQ workloads in SAP Hana Cloud
• Familiarity with Azure SQL administration, tuning and optimisation, Azure security and Azure automation and Scripting
• Scripting of DB snapshotting automation (leveraging REST APIs, Pure storage)

Desirable

• Experienced with Oracle technologies
• Good understanding of Kubernetes technology
• Knowledge of open‑source technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• Project management experience
• Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2022 administration)
• Basic understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies
• Basic networking skills LAN/WAN, TCP/IP