Database Administrator (DBA

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 29/06/2026 TBC 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 restoration of services.
• 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., The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band. Job description, The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

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., * 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 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 application lifecycle
• Collaborations to improve service delivery and innovation
• 5-7 years of experience in IT, with at least 2 years focused 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 analyses problems and establishes 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 analyses problems and establishes 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

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 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 application lifecycle
• Collaborations to improve service delivery and innovation
• 5-7 years of experience in IT, with at least 2 years focused 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 analyses problems and establishes 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 analyses problems and establishes 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

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together. We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.