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Job Title: Senior Database Administrator
Agency: Barts Health NHS Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 66,274 – 73,496 £ / Year

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Job Summary

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Barts Health ICT is seeking an experienced and skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to lead on the Trust’s large SQL database environments and work as part of the ICT Server Team.

In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining, configuring, optimising, and developing the Trust’s database infrastructure. You will ensure the availability, performance, integrity, and security of all databases across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in SQL Server database administration, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and database design. Experience with virtualisation technologies and their configuration is also essential.

Proposed interview date 10/07/2026

Main duties of the job

  • Review, develop, and promote efficiency and stability across the Relational Database Management (RDBMS) environment, ensuring databases are secure and protected.
  • Act as a technical lead and subject matter expert (SME) for database design, implementation, and optimisation across live and test environments.
  • Monitor and tune database environments to ensure optimal system performance, integrity, and availability.
  • Analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve complex database issues, minimising downtime and ensuring rapid service restoration.
  • Develop and enforce policies and procedures for database management, security, and maintenance.
  • Lead technical delivery of database-related projects, ensuring completion within time, cost, and quality expectations, including risk identification and mitigation.
  • Perform software installation and configuration, working with third-party suppliers where required.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in a similar position within a large organisation, preferably over 5,000 users.
  • Significant experience (7-10 years) in managing SQL environments in a virtualised environment.
  • Some experience (2-4 years) in managing SQL cloud services
  • Experience of supporting digital transformation projects (2-4 years) (migrating to the cloud, consolidating applications to one, consolidating application instances).
  • Experience (5years) in technical project management, including planning, execution, and monitoring
  • Proven track record in implementing security measures and managing IT costs through the application lifecycle
  • Collaborations to improve service delivery and innovation
  • 5-7 years of experience in IT, with at least 2 years focused on SQL Database Technologies

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to devise, measure, and monitor SLAs/KPIs
  • Interpersonal and Organizational Skills
  • Develop, track, and report on service level agreements and key performance indicators
  • Produce metrics, analyse, interpret information, and produce regular reports on status and trends
  • Identify types of data, determine relationships among data entities, and establish business rules and data integrity requirements
  • Ability to analyze problems and establish a technical fix
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with a range of people, including executives, management, and individual contributors (clinical and non-clinical)
  • Able to convey information by email, telephone, and face-to-face to staff of all levels
  • Resource management – ability to identify and plan work and supervise the workload of team members

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to devise, measure, and monitor SLAs/KPIs
  • Interpersonal and Organizational Skills
  • Develop, track, and report on service level agreements and key performance indicators
  • Produce metrics, analyse, interpret information, and produce regular reports on status and trends.
  • Identify types of data, determine relationships among data entities, and establish business rules and data integrity requirements
  • Ability to analyze problems and establish a technical fix.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with a range of people, including executives, management, and individual contributors (clinical and non-clinical)
  • Able to convey information by email, telephone, and face-to-face to staff of all levels
  • Resource management – ability to identify and plan work and supervise the workload of team members

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to a degree level or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
  • Professional Training Courses – MS SQL administration, Design, and implementation

Desirable

  • Relevant training courses (e.g., VMware, Storage Management, Hypervisor).
  • PRINCE2 or similar.
  • Certifications: MCSA Database Administration, MSCE: Data Management, ITIL Foundation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 24 June 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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