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# SQL Database Administrator & Developer

- **Company:** Hired Online
- **Location:** Northampton, UK
- **Salary:** £45,991.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Databases, Data Validation, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Scripting, Git, Restful APIs, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5840642663

## About the Role

* Strong, demonstrable experience writing and optimising SQL - complex queries, stored procedures, and diagnosing why something is slow
 * Hands-on experience administering MySQL in a production environment
 * Experience working with large, business-critical datasets where accuracy genuinely matters
 * Confident manipulating and validating data within Microsoft Excel
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the judgement to know when something looks wrong
 * Excellent written and verbal communication - you'll be explaining technical constraints to commercial colleagues regularly
 * Comfortable owning your own workload and delivering with limited supervision
 * A genuine appetite to learn new tools and languages - our stack will keep evolving

Ideal

 * Python experience, particularly for data processing, automation or scripting
 * Experience consuming or building REST APIs is highly desirable
 * Familiarity with version control (Git) and working alongside a development team
 * Experience within the energy industry, or another regulated, data-heavy sector

## Description

* Design, build and optimise the database layer behind new energyengine products and features
 * Write, review and performance-tune SQL against large production datasets
 * Own the pricing data pipeline end to end - ingestion, conversion, validation and upload of supplier price changes into the platform
 * Automate and harden what is currently manual, reducing the time between a supplier issuing prices and those prices going live
 * Build the validation checks that catch bad pricing data before it ever reaches a customer
 * Administer business-critical MySQL databases: performance, indexing, backups, integrity and access control
 * Maintain supplier meter mappings and the data relationships that underpin accurate quoting
 * Work with our internal team and external development partner to specify, test and roll out new functionality
 * Partner with the pricing team day to day - understand how they work, then build the tools that make their job easier
 * Manage supplier relationships covering pricing feeds and meter mapping
 * Carry out data analysis to answer commercial and technical questions, and document what you build


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