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Duties and Responsibilities will include

• Primary responsibility for operational uptime of databases used by the Bell & Clements Group.
• Support data solution architects in designing architecture solutions that are in line with long-term business objectives
• Developing data management projects that move a company closer to its future goals
• Support the design of data infrastructure that supports complex data analytics services
• Providing technical leadership and direction on data infrastructure architecture for the Software Engineering and Data Analytics teams
• Collaborate with the Software Engineering and Data Analytics teams to analyse, identify, design and implement processes and continuously support/improve them
• Building effective relationships with senior technical staff so that there is a common understanding of goals and challenges
• Meeting with clients, peers, data solution architects, or executive team members to engage in architectural and requirement analysis discussions
• Creating documentation that captures key data entities and creating an inventory of the data needed to implement solutions
• Translating business requirements into databases, data warehouses, and data streams
• Analysing, planning, and defining data architecture framework, including security, reference data, metadata, and master data
• Helping to maintain the integrity and security of the company’s database
• Partner with technical peers to provide technical thought leadership on high Level Architecture and Design, data modelling, Data strategy & adoption for Ingestion and Analytics Applications within the insurance domain
• Define technical principles, vision, and standards in partnership with your peers
• Ensure the design can scale to handle additional data demands
• Ensure key performance indicators of applications are baselined with respect to data loads and continuously monitored. Devise performance improvement plans working with the Software Engineering, Data Analytics and Infrastructure teams.
• Audit support and enforce GDPR compliance as needed.
• Work independently to configure and maintain the database servers and processes. Monitor system health and ensure high levels of performance are maintained optimally 24/7 securely.
• Manage and deliver migrations to the cloud environment using Microsoft Azure to agreed timescales.
• Leading the DataOps function you will ensure there are robust deployment pipelines and gates in place before any database codebase is released into production. Managing the manual deployments of database changes into UAT and Production until automated solution is deployed
• Participate in software engineering, data analytics, architectural, development operations and systems support projects as needed.
• Work with the Software Engineering and Data Analyst teams to provide database architecture guidance to ensure new solutions are designed correctly from the ground up and any legacy designed are re-engineered for optimal performance.
• Patch the database environments on the 3rd Sunday of every month, managing this remotely.
• User / Role management across databases