Senior Lead Associate - Database
- The Database Level 3 Engineer serves as the principal technical authority responsible for the strategic evolution, optimisation, governance, and operational maturity of the organisation's database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Reporting to the Hosting Service Owner, the role drives platform resilience, performance optimisation, security enhancement, recoverability assurance, and technology lifecycle management to ensure database services remain robust, scalable, and aligned with business and technology priorities.
- The role provides technical leadership across the database estate, leading complex engineering initiatives, platform modernisation programmes, and risk reduction activities that improve database reliability, operational effectiveness, and long-term sustainability. Through proactive assessment of platform health, technical debt, security posture, capacity demands, and service performance trends, the Database Level 3 Engineer develops and delivers strategic improvement roadmaps that strengthen overall service maturity.
- Working closely with Architecture, Application Development, Hosting, Cloud, Cyber Security, Risk, and Service Management teams, the role translates business, operational, and security requirements into scalable database standards, engineering patterns, governance controls, and target-state platform designs. The position is accountable for establishing engineering best practices, defining operational standards, and ensuring database technologies are deployed, maintained, and evolved in accordance with enterprise architecture and governance principles.
- The Database Level 3 Engineer acts as the senior technical advisor and escalation authority for complex platform challenges, providing expert guidance on database architecture, performance engineering, high availability, disaster recovery, automation, and security controls. The role mentors engineering teams, strengthens technical capability across the function, and ensures service improvements are measurable, governed, and successfully adopted into operational practice.
- Success in the role is measured through improvements in database service reliability, performance, security, automation adoption, operational maturity, audit readiness, technical debt reduction, and infrastructure modernisation rather than through the execution of routine administrative or operational support activities.
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