Location: Stockport

Salary & Benefits: £35,656 - £44,570. Annual discretionary personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (maximum amount when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot (option to use across range of benefits), private medical insurance, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Corporate Lab within the Motor Finance Value Stream (MFVS) within Group Transformation. As one of the five value streams within Retail & Community Banking Transformation, our vision for MFVS is to remain as the UK's market leader in Motor Finance, continually evolving to provide an outstanding multi-channel experience for all our customers now and in the future.

About the Team

We're looking for a highly motivated and self-organising individual to work in an established support team. Our team is an inclusive and diverse team with a great work ethic who enjoy delivering high quality support to the engineering feature teams, as well as focussing on moving forwards with automation and simplified database processes.

About you

We're looking for a motivated and proactive Database SME to provide excellent services at each stage of the agile delivery lifecycle - promoting best practices and standards via peer reviews within the engineering lab.

You're someone who continually develops themselves with industry standard methodology and tooling, with a good awareness of the future of databases and data storage. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Lex Autolease.

Want to know more about what you'll be doing?

• Provide SQL database code release support - acting as an SME for LBG teams

• You'll be responsible for monitoring the health of the databases- for example disk space, performance, resource capacity

• You'll be responsible for providing guidance to Service Delivery teams, including making SQL code recommendations

• Provide project support to initiatives within the Value Stream

• Ensure efficacy of database settings to enable best performance

• Help to plan future database infrastructure changes / requirements

• You'll be part of a team responsible for complex environment restores across multiple databases and domains

• Get involved in change control processes around database change

And as for your skills

• Experience of working with relational databases

• Experience of development and production database administration

• Good knowledge of database infrastructures

• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Server 2014 upwards)

• TSQL, SSIS, SSRS

• Able to work with multi-disciplinary teams across the software development lifecycle

• Be able to work "hands-on" alongside all other engineering disciplines

And if you've got any of these skills it would be an advantage.

• Experience of DevOps

• UrbanCode

• SQL Sentry

• Github Enterprise

• Cloud Database Administration / Services (Azure / AWS)

• Delphix

We deeply value diversity, and are proudly committed to being an equal opportunity employer. If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture passionate about making a difference.