Database Administrator Team Leader

at  Yorkshire Water

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• Salary of £51,868 - £64,835 depending on experience.
• A company car through company car lease scheme
• Annual incentive related bonus – Up to £1000
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the Data Scientist progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: Bradford/ Hybrid Working (1-2 days in the office a week)
Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Scientist to join the Data team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

WHAT WE DO:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The data team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.
The role will be managing a team of colleagues to maintain the company database of medium to high complexity, whilst driving the development polices, strategies and standards across the Database Administration Team.
Providing subject matter expertise to other technology teams, key customers and senior managers and leading activities to optimise database configuration and access, you will ensure the Database Administrators (DBA) resolve database capacity and performance issues in a timely manner and will be accountable for database recovery and back up.

WHAT SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• Excellent knowledge of integration with various infrastructures within an enterprise organisation.
• Strong working knowledge of ANSI SQL and be familiar with the ITIL framework with proven experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and other relational database systems.
• Experience in supporting mission critical production systems, with the ability to implement policies and procedures to ensure the security and integrity of the database(s)
• Experience with Windows Server environments and Linux environments and understand Linux system administration, scripting, and process automation.
• Knowledge and capability of delivering documentation, testing and release management principles.
• Advanced knowledge of database security, backup and recovery and performance monitoring standards
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of service continuity planning and IT Security.

Please refer the Job description for details