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# Senior SQL Developer

- **Company:** Harvey Nash
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £33,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, Amazon Web Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Data Integrity, Database Queries, Database Security, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Microsoft SQL Server, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Performance Tuning, Standard Sql, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, SQL Server Integration Services, Transact-SQL, Database Optimization, Software Troubleshooting, Indexer, Sentry, Apache Kafka, Terraform
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5840202819

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server 2016+
 * Advanced query writing and optimisation
 * Execution plan analysis and performance troubleshooting
 * Deep understanding of indexing, locking and concurrency
 * SSIS experience
 * Service Broker / messaging systems (SSSB, Kafka)
 * Database security, roles and best practices

## Description

* Design and optimise complex T-SQL stored procedures, functions, views and triggers
 * Own performance tuning, including indexing strategies, execution plans, partitioning and statistics
 * Conduct deep root-cause analysis on production performance issues
 * Contribute to schema design, capacity planning and lifecycle management
 * Ensure data integrity, security and compliance best practices
 * Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture and DevOps teams
 * Act as a data leader and mentor within the wider team

Technologies:

 * DevOps
 * Kafka
 * PaaS
 * SQL
 * Security
 * SSIS
 * ASP.NET
 * AWS
 * C#
 * Cloud
 * ElasticSearch
 * Sentry
 * Terraform, We are a growing UK-based PaaS provider in the gambling and gaming sector. We are hiring a Senior SQL Server Developer to serve as the subject-matter expert for SQL Server in a high-traffic, 24/7, performance-critical environment. This is a remote role with occasional travel to Oxford. We offer a salary of £60,000-£80,000 plus quarterly bonus, and you will work in a collaborative engineering culture where technical excellence is genuinely valued.


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