Experienced DBA/SQL Developer

2 weeks ago

United Kingdom CONTEXT World Limited Full time

Work opportunities at CONTEXT include customer-facing project-support roles; positions as analysts, responsible for the production, maintenance, and delivery of our core services; and jobs as developers dealing with the technical back-end of our systems.

CONTEXT tracks the business and consumer technology markets. Trusted by the world's leading technology companies and their customers to deliver actionable, fact-based business intelligence, CONTEXT data collection and management capabilities are unrivalled in their depth and scope. 

Manage company OLTP and OLAP servers. Responsibilities include maintaining the current database systems, supporting the design and implementation of changes to the databases, establishing policies and procedures pertaining to the management, security, maintenance, and use of the database management systems. The successful applicant will be involved in managing client enquiries and face-to-face client’s activities.

Main Tasks and Accountabilities

  • Data Insight / Data Mining

  • Recoverability - Creating and testing Backups

  • Integrity – Verify data integrity

  • Security - Defining and/or implementing access controls to the data. Updates and upgrades

  • Availability - Ensuring maximum uptime

  • Performance - Ensuring maximum performance given budgetary constraints

  • Development and testing support - Assist programmers and to efficiently utilise the database


Experience/Knowledge/Qualification required

  • Over 5 years of professional experience developing SQL software

  • Advanced PL/SQL or similar

  • Good experience SQL skills (experience with PostgreSQL / Greenplum is a plus)

  • AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch…)

  • Linux (shell, crons...), Ansible / Terraform, replication, pgWatch

  • Python is a plus

  • Computer Science degree or related


Character and Personal Qualities

  • Enjoy working in a team

  • Willingness to accept challenges

  • Ability and desire to work with complex, integrated solutions

  • Good problem solving skills with attention to details

  • “Think outside the box” & “Can do” attitude

  • Ability to work independently and with limited oversight


In 2019, CONTEXT was recognised as one of the UK's Best WorkplacesTM by Great Place to Work. We earned this award thanks to our longstanding convivial and growth-orientated culture.

As a global company, CONTEXT embraces the opportunity to welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Our company culture is very important to us and we recognise the richness that diversity brings. Therefore, we encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, ethnic origins, nationality, marital status, disability, pregnancy, parenthood, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. 

Please do get in touch at recruitment@contextworld.com if you are a qualified candidate who requires an accommodation in order to apply for this position.

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