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# Senior Database Engineer

- **Company:** Field Sales Solutions
- **Location:** Thame, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Cleansing, Information Engineering, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Database Models, DevOps, Document-Oriented Databases, Memory Management, Machine Learning, Query Optimization, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Transact-SQL, Data Ingestion, Azure Data Factory, Star Schema, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5951636864

## About the Role

* Strong experience developing in SQL from creating database models from scratch
 * Solid understanding of Data Warehousing (star schema, fact/dimension design)
 * Expert in writing efficient TSQL code
 * Proficient in query optimization, partitioning and index design.
 * Good understanding of data cleansing and preparation
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
 * Ability to collaborate across the whole BI team
 * Practical and proven experience in designing and deploying Azure Data Factory data pipeline.
 * Confident communicator, able to engage non-technical stakeholders and clients.
 * Highly organized, able to manage workload independently.
 * Understanding how SQL feeds PBI
 * Experience with Dev-ops and Source control
 * Translating business questions into SQL and explaining query logic clearly
 * Data engineering for machine learning modelling
 * Able to build solutions from ingestion to presentation
 * Good practice with exception handling
 * Understanding of vectoring data

## Description

We're looking for an ambitious and skilled database engineer to join our Business Intelligence function and play a key role in architecting, maintaining and troubleshooting internal database structures. You'll be part of the Database team, working closely with the reporting and QA teams to deliver top level data outputs for internal and external facing reporting, including 3rd party integrations., * Build and Refine queries, CTE's, stored procedures, views and functions

 * Create and Maintain tables, indexes, constraints, schemas and triggers
 * Diagnose slow queries using execution plans, cardinality estimates, IO and wait stats
 * Design optimized queries for CPU, IO and memory usage, reducing locking.
 * Checking job schedules, ETL Pipelines and data freshness
 * Build and Maintain ingestion pipelines
 * Enforce constraints, referential integrity and validation rules
 * Support compliance requirements
 * Document data pipelines, schemas, stored procedures, data flows and standards
 * Promote best practices
 * Plan for Scalability