Staff Database Administrator

Management Level

EQ Retirement Solutions is transforming the retirement and pensions markets with leading administration and technology solutions. With over 1200 employees globally, 189 years of knowledge and 11 million pension scheme members and policyholders, we are here to help people plan for a confident financial future by delivering innovative, reliable and customer-focused retirement services. Our teams are driven by a shared commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a real impact to the lives of our clients and customers.

Role Summary

EQ Retirement Solutions are looking for an Oracle Database Administrator within their Product & Technology department.

The main purpose of the role is to implement, configure, maintain and optimise Oracle RDBMS systems to ensure the availability, performance and security of core pension and retirement platforms. This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical expertise, alongside collaboration with product, development and support teams.

The role will also include cross-training to support MSSQL databases and contributing to the stability and scalability of critical technology services that underpin client and customer delivery. There may be a requirement to perform some activities outside of business hours where services may be impacted.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Manage Oracle databases across development, testing and production environments
• Configure and maintain database systems to ensure high performance, availability and security
• Monitor database health and proactively identify and resolve issues
• Analyse and troubleshoot database issues, providing end-to-end resolution
• Automate and improve routine database processes and maintain accurate documentation
• Support product and development teams with query optimisation and schema design
• Perform database backup, restore and recovery activities
• Support release deployments and scheduled maintenance, including out-of-hours work where required
• Provide on-call support for critical production systems as needed
• Share knowledge and provide technical mentoring to team members
• Cross-train and provide support for MSSQL database environments

The duties and responsibilities outlined above are to be regarded as broad areas of responsibility and do not necessarily detail all tasks which the post holder may be required to perform.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The ideal candidate will have the below skills, capabilities and attributes

• Extensive experience in Oracle Database Administration, including Oracle 19c
• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimisation
• Experience with backup and recovery tools (RMAN and Data Pump)
• Experience with Oracle upgrades and security patching
• Experience working with Oracle on Linux and Windows environments
• Experience supporting business-critical applications within a regulated environment (desirable)
• Experience with cloud migration (AWS and Azure)
• Experience with Puppet and Terraform (preferred)
• Relevant Oracle certifications (desirable)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across technical teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off – Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.