- Location
- Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom · published · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Source
- Workable
Description
Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
In this role, you will take ownership of application-facing database services, supporting database configuration, migrations, data movement, performance tuning, and troubleshooting across critical business applications. You will act as the bridge between application and infrastructure teams, ensuring database solutions are designed, maintained, and transitioned effectively throughout the application lifecycle.
The successful candidate will have strong SQL Server administration experience, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a proactive approach to driving database performance, reliability, and continuous improvement in a complex enterprise environment.
- Works closely with application teams, BAs and vendors to understand database requirements, dependencies and application behaviour.
- Owns the application-facing database activities, including schema/database configuration, migration, data movement, compatibility and application connectivity.
- Leads application-specific SQL troubleshooting and performance analysis, identifying whether issues originate within the database, queries or application.
- Supports migration, testing and cutover, ensuring the database and application are transitioned as an integrated service.
- Defines requirements that need to be delivered by the infrastructure-aligned DBA.