3626 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Principal Engineer, Databases
£40,000 - 70,000
Stanley Street, North West England
£40,000 - 70,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Database and Exadata/ExaCC platforms.
- Solid PostgreSQL administration skills in production environments.
- Practical experience managing MongoDB clusters at scale.
- Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Understanding of replication, clustering, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns.
- Familiarity with database performance tuning and query optimisation.
- Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Liquibase, Flyway, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Serve as the domains foremost technical expert, accountable for engineering excellence and long-term platform strategy.
- Define and maintain technical standards, patterns, and best practices across the domain.
- Lead complex design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
- Drive adoption of automation, DevOps tooling, and platform as a product principles across all engineering teams.
- Oversee the health, performance, and lifecycle of core platforms within the domain.
- Ensure capacity planning, resilience, backup, recovery, and disaster readiness are embedded into all services.
- Champion observability, monitoring, and proactive incident prevention.
- Identify opportunities to modernise legacy platforms, reduce technical debt, and introduce new technologies.
- Evaluate emerging tools, frameworks, and architectures relevant to the domain.
- Lead proof of concepts and guide engineering teams through adoption.
- Partner with cross-domain Principal Engineers to ensure cohesive enterprise-wide engineering standards.
- Work closely with product, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and uplift engineering capability across the organisation.
- Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards.
- Provide technical oversight for major changes, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.
- Act as an escalation point for critical incidents and complex technical challenges.
Description
We are looking for a Principal Database Engineer with deep expertise across enterprise-grade and open-source database platforms, including Oracle, Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. In this role, you will design, operate, and optimise mission-critical data services that support high-volume, high-availability applications. This position blends hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, ensuring our data platforms are secure, scalable, and performant. Join our team in Manchester, UK, and contribute to our innovative engineering efforts.
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