Database and Middleware Manager in Bristol

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol (Hybrid Working Arrangements)

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Database and Middleware Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role:

• Lead the delivery and performance of critical Oracle database and middleware services that support defence and engineering operations.
• Ensure systems are secure, reliable, and optimised, helping teams across the business deliver vital programmes with confidence.
• Shape both technology and people capability.
• Guide a team of specialists, support the transition to an in-house function, and play a key part in delivering new digital solutions.

It’s an opportunity to grow your leadership skills while working on systems that directly enable national defence and infrastructure.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading a team to deliver high-performing Oracle database & middleware services.
• Managing system performance, security, and availability across critical platforms.
• Collaborating with technical teams to deliver new applications and system improvements.
• Developing project plans, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement through automation, optimisation, and best practice.

Essential experience:

• Strong experience managing Oracle database and middleware environments in complex systems.
• Proven leadership experience managing technical teams and specialists.
• Expertise in Oracle technologies such as WebLogic, SOA Suite, Identity Management, and modern Oracle database platforms.
• Experience working with Windows and Linux server environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to optimise performance and reliability.

Qualifications:

• Relevant professional experience in database administration or IT infrastructure management.
• ITILv4 qualification or higher – desirable.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

About Babcock:

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.