Database Engineer

Welcome to Moneycorp. Moneycorp powers global payments for corporates, institutions and high net worth individuals, combining worldwide reach with local expertise. With over 45 years of market experience, two banking licences and offices in 11 countries, our technology delivers 24/7 accessibility, while our people deliver award-winning service. In 2024, we supported $1tn+ of payment volume, reaching 190 countries in 130 currencies. Our 32k+ corporate clients benefit from our regulatory resilience with 63+ permissions globally, access to major payment rails, and our proprietary technology.

Moneycorp is a place where energy, commitment, and collaboration are core to our values of shared success. We’re restless in our drive to surpass the expectations of our customers and unlock opportunities to support them at every stage of their journey. The foundation of our success is our people, and nurturing a culture of belonging for all our colleagues is central to our journey as a global business.

Your Next Challenge: We are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to support mission‑critical database platforms within a regulated financial services environment. This role is accountable for the technical integrity, resilience, security and lifecycle management of database platforms supporting customer, transactional and regulatory workloads. This role is responsible for ensuring database availability, performance, security, and regulatory compliance for systems supporting customer, transactional, and regulatory reporting workloads. The DBA will operate within a strong risk and control framework, working closely with Technology, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams. A diverse and challenging DBA role offering the opportunity to work on a wide range of support and implementation tasks primarily working in a Microsoft Azure environment. The Moneycorp data environment also contains Oracle database instances hosted in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The successful candidate will be ideally placed to work in a data platform environment that is increasingly taking a cloud first approach. This role forms part of an on-call DBA rota and is expected to take ownership of database-related incidents outside of business hours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Regulatory compliance & controls: Ensure database operations meet regulatory and supervisory obligations for banking, payments and FX platforms operating across Moneycorp’s global footprint. Supporting compliance with applicable UK, EU and US regulatory and data protection requirements. Ensuring database controls support operational resilience, transaction integrity and regulatory reporting. Maintaining strong access control, segregation of duties and auditability across jurisdictions. Supporting internal and external audits with clear, timely evidence. Ensuring all database changes follow approved change and release processes with appropriate risk and regulatory impact assessment.
• Database operations & resilience: Administer Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, and production. Maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions to meet defined RTO/RPO and operational resilience requirements. Execute and regularly test backup, restore, and failover procedures. Performance tune production systems – ensuring maximum efficiency. Act as the technical lead for database-related incidents, owning investigation, resolution and post-incident review. Provide out‑of‑hours and on‑call support for incidents impacting critical financial systems.
• Security & data protection: Implement and maintain database security controls, including role‑based access control and least‑privilege principles, encryption at rest and in transit, auditing and logging of database activity. Protect sensitive financial and personal data in line with GDPR and internal data handling standards. Remediate vulnerabilities identified through security scans or audits. Own and enforce secure database configuration baselines across all platforms, ensuring continued compliance with internal security standards and audit findings.
• Performance & Stability: Monitor performance and capacity to ensure systems consistently meet SLA, latency and throughput requirements. Diagnose and resolve performance issues affecting customer-facing or regulatory systems. Perform proactive health checks and preventative maintenance. Own the overall performance posture of database platforms, ensuring configuration, indexing strategies, isolation levels and resource usage are reviewed and optimised proactively.
• Database Maintenance & Reliability: Define, implement and continuously improve database maintenance strategies covering backup, restore and periodic recovery testing, index and statistics management, integrity checking and corruption detection. Ensure maintenance activities are automated, auditable and aligned with platform scale and workload characteristics.
• Platform Lifecycle, Version and Patch Management: Own database version and patch compliance across all environments, ensuring platforms remain within vendor-supported versions and are patched in line with organisational risk appetite and board-approved tolerances. Monitor vendor roadmaps and end-of-support timelines, proactively identifying technology risk and upgrade requirements.
• Automation & controlled delivery: Develop automation and scripting where appropriate, ensuring controls, approvals, and auditability are maintained. Support controlled database deployments through CI/CD pipelines. Reduce operational risk through standardisation and repeatable processes.
• Collaboration & documentation: Partner with application teams to ensure secure, performant database designs. Engage with software and platform engineering communities throughout the development cycle to review code for efficiency and performance. Maintain comprehensive documentation covering architecture, procedures, risks, and controls.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Proven experience operating enterprise database platforms in production, regulated environments (typically 5+ years).
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability, resilience and audit requirements.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills with great attention to detail.
• Confident communicator, with the ability to liaise with technical colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
• Administration of SQL Server platforms in cloud environments, both deployed natively in the cloud and in an IaaS configuration.
• Operation of high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Ability to secure, harden and audit database platforms in line with regulatory expectations.
• Capability to monitor, tune and stabilise database performance.
• Ownership of database lifecycle management, including patching and upgrades.
• Experience providing BAU support and on-call incident response.
• Use of automation and tooling to reduce operational risk and improve reliability.

Ways of Working: Operates effectively within controlled release, CI/CD and change management processes. Works collaboratively across application, platform, security and risk teams. Maintains clear documentation and evidence to support audit and regulatory review.

Education: Degree in an IT-related discipline (desirable). Relevant certifications in database, cloud, security or technology risk are advantageous.

Skills & Competencies: Strong commitment to continuous learning, professional development and technical excellence. Delivers work to a consistently high standard, with attention to detail and accountability for outcomes. Professional, approachable and able to build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams. Self-motivated with strong personal drive; takes ownership and sees work through to completion. Proactive and resilient, remaining effective when dealing with ambiguity, pressure or complex incidents. Adaptable and flexible, responding positively to change and evolving priorities. Collaborative team player who contributes positively to shared objectives.

We're committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture where diversity thrives, and we empower our colleagues to drive meaningful change within our organization through Employee Engagement initiatives and value champion networks. Together, we want to build a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, as we believe this is the foundation of innovation, creativity, and collective success.

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