Senior Database Developer

Credit Benchmark is a financial data and analytics company transforming how global credit risk is understood and managed. Founded by serial entrepreneurs and backed by leading investors including Balderton Capital and Index Ventures, we’re a fast-growing team of technology, finance, and data experts committed to making financial markets safer and more transparent. With headquarters in London and offices in New York and Bangalore, we bring a global perspective to the challenge of credit risk and capital management.

What we do

Credit Benchmark provides a unique, data-driven alternative to traditional credit ratings through our innovative Credit Consensus Ratings. By aggregating and anonymizing internal risk views from 40 of the world’s largest financial institutions, we deliver forward-looking, one-year Probabilities of Default and powerful analytics on over 125,000 entities—five times the coverage of traditional rating agencies. Our data helps global financial institutions and businesses make better-informed decisions, optimize capital allocation, and de-risk the critical decisions on which the financial system depends. From corporates to funds to public entities, we offer a uniquely comprehensive “view of the street” on credit risk.

The role/opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Technology in London, we are looking for a senior database developer with strong data architectural skills to take ownership of the design, integrity, and performance of the data platform that powers Credit Benchmark’s products. The majority of our development team is based in Bangalore, and you’ll be working closely with Product Owners and Operations teams across London, Bangalore, and New York.

This is a hands‑on role with real architectural weight: you won’t just implement schemas and queries against a spec, you’ll shape how data is modelled, structured, and evolved across our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on both green‑field projects and the enhancement of existing, mature systems with genuine ownership of database solutions and the scope to imprint your own thinking on how they’re built.

You will be working with our enterprise‑level SQL Server core data platform, with the opportunity to expand your horizons by contributing to work across our full stack — C#, Python, Node, React, R, and Machine Learning and by getting involved as we begin to bring modern data fabrics such as Snowflake and Databricks alongside our SQL Server core.

What we are looking for

• Someone who has grown from strong, hands‑on SQL development into thinking architecturally about data, schema design, data modelling, and the trade‑offs behind them, rather than someone who architects in the abstract without having built and run production database systems
• A strong SQL Server developer first, with the judgement and experience to take on architectural ownership of how CB’s data is modelled and structured
• Comfortable moving between deep, detailed development work and higher‑level design decisions about data flow, structure, and long‑term maintainability.
• Someone who wants ownership — of database solutions, of design decisions, and of getting them right — not just delivery against a fixed spec.
• Curious about where our platform is heading, including our early moves toward modern data fabrics such as Databricks alongside our SQL Server core.

What you’ll do / key responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance the data platform that powers CB’s suite of products
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting production database issues using Redgate monitoring/logs, with strong root‑cause analysis and performance diagnostics skills
• Analyse, design, and implement database solutions for given business and technical problems
• Enhance existing backend data platforms to deliver new business requirements
• Maintain existing database and reporting solutions across the full SQL Server suite, including SSIS/SSRS packages
• Build data pipelines using modern tooling such as dbt, alongside existing SSIS/SSRS where relevant
• Own schema and data model design decisions, applying sound data warehousing principles to both operational and analytical workloads
• Assess and evolve the data platform’s structure as CB’s products and data volumes grow, balancing performance, maintainability, and cost
• Contribute to decisions on how the platform incorporates modern data fabric capabilities (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake) alongside the SQL Server core
• Document data architecture, schema design decisions, and data flows to support long‑term maintainability, onboarding, and audit
• Work closely with mid‑and front‑end developers to design solutions end to end
• Partner with Product Owners and Operations teams across London, Bangalore, and New York to translate business and operational needs into