We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Group IT organisation. This role will be responsible for maintaining, optimising, and modernising our enterprise database estate, which underpins key operational and claims platforms globally. The successful candidate will play a dual role:

Operational Excellence - ensuring stability, performance, integrity, and security of SQL database environments.
Modernisation & Transformation - supporting the migration from legacy SQL Server VMs to cloud data services, while helping introduce and operate modern data capabilities (e.g., managed relational platforms, distributed NoSQL, streaming, and analytics) to enable next-generation claims systems.
Manage, monitor, and optimise SQL Server instances across on-premise VMs and Azure environments.
Oversee performance tuning, index optimisation, query analysis, and capacity planning.
Support BAU change operations and production releases, including executing approved changes in production, troubleshooting incidents, and driving root-cause analysis.
Participate in an on-call rota to support business-critical services, responding to incidents and service alerts out of hours when required.
Maintain database availability, disaster recovery, and backup/restore strategies.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and audit requirements.
Lead and support the migration of legacy SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance / Azure SQL Database.
Contribute to database architecture design for cloud-ready and cloud-native applications.
Implement best practices for Azure monitoring, automation, scalability, and resilience.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to streamline database deployment automation and CI/CD.
Support the design, configuration, and optimisation of cloud data services for high-scale workloads (e.g., distributed NoSQL stores such as Cosmos DB, or equivalent).
Partner with data and engineering teams to enable analytics and reporting on modern platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, or equivalent).
Provide guidance on data modelling and performance (relational and non-relational), partitioning/sharding strategies, throughput and cost management, and operational best practices in cloud environments.
Work closely with Developers, Solution Architects, Infrastructure, Security, and the Claims Platform team.
Contribute to documentation, technical handovers, and operational readiness for new services.
Participate in continuous improvement activities and introduce modern tooling and automation.
Act as a technical SME for database practices, mentoring junior team members where applicable.
Enterprise DBA experience (SQL Server plus exposure to other data platforms)
Performance optimisation (workload analysis, indexing/physical design, capacity planning)
Azure managed relational experience (e.g., Azure SQL MI/DB): migration, operations, and tooling
Distributed NoSQL experience (e.g., Cosmos DB/MongoDB/DynamoDB): data modelling and operational tuning
Modern analytics/lakehouse concepts (e.g., Fabric/Synapse/Databricks), pipelines, and semantic models
Backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery (design, testing, and execution)
SQL replication experience (including migration to AVG)
Monitoring, diagnostics, and incident management (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
Comfortable working in controlled production environments (change management, release windows, safe script execution) and participating in on-call support.
Automation and CI/CD for data/database changes (PowerShell/Python; IaC where applicable)
Database security (access control, encryption, compliance/audit)

Founded in 1884 as a mutual insurance association, Charles Taylor began under the leadership of coal merchant Charles Taylor, whose astute management set the stage for growth. Today, we are a global leader providing insurance services and technology solutions with a team of c.4,000 experts across 120+ countries on 6 continents.
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