Lead Oracle DBA & Data Team Lead (Hybrid)

Ocuco; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocuco Limited, a leading eyecare software provider, is seeking a Lead Database Administrator at its Dublin HQ. This hands-on role combines technical ownership with people leadership, overseeing the day‑to‑day management and development of the Database Team, and ensuring reliability, performance and recovery across customer and internal environments.

Hybrid role with three days in the office each week. You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, coordinate with Development and Operations,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial Oracle DBA experience across Windows and Linux/Unix.
• 5+ years’ Oracle RAC experience.
• 5+ years’ experience working within an IT development environment.
• Excellent SQL and PL/SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience in Oracle database configuration and administration.
• Experience working with Azure SQL Database.
• Strong ability to diagnose database performance issues and implement effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Team coordination: Lead and coordinate the work of Database Administrators and Data Engineers, working closely with the Operations Director on team priorities, scheduling, resource planning, and workload management.
• People leadership: Provide day‑to‑day line management for members of the Database Team, including performance management, development and coaching.
• Knowledge development: Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the team and take ownership of a structured knowledge‑transfer framework to strengthen capability and continuity across the function.
• Database ownership: Take overall responsibility for customer and internal database requirements, ensuring high standards of reliability, availability, performance and service quality.
• Database administration: Manage database configuration, maintenance, recovery, preventative maintenance and performance‑tuning activities across hosted and remote customer environments.
• Performance and resilience: Diagnose database performance issues, implement effective solutions, and contribute to database recovery, resilience and capacity planning.
• Schema and scripting: Maintain database schemas across the product range, including database migration and maintenance scripts.
• Data management: Write, review and execute SQL, PL/SQL and T‑SQL scripts to manipulate, load, extract and transfer data, supported by a strong understanding of database structures and relationships.
• Technical collaboration: Work closely with Development, Operations and Support teams on database‑related requirements, changes and technical issues.
• Support enablement: Mentor Ocuco Support Engineers and promote consistent application of database best practices across database‑related support activities.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Oracle DBA experience

Oracle RAC

SQL & PL/SQL

Performance tuning

Tools

Oracle Database

Azure SQL Database

Windows

Linux/Unix

Job description

Ocuco Limited, a leading eyecare software provider, is seeking a Lead Database Administrator at its Dublin HQ. This hands-on role combines technical ownership with people leadership, overseeing the day‑to‑day management and development of the Database Team, and ensuring reliability, performance and recovery across customer and internal environments.

Hybrid role with three days in the office each week. You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, coordinate with Development and Operations,