Description

Your Role
We are seeking a technically strong Technical Lead – Data & SQL Platforms to provide hands-on leadership across enterprise database environments, data modelling, integration enablement, and modern analytics initiatives. This opportunity will suit an experienced data professional who can guide technical direction, uplift capability across the team, and remain actively involved in solution design, database optimisation, and delivery.

The successful candidate will lead the design, maintenance, availability, integrity, performance, and security of SQL Server environments, while providing technical guidance to developers, DBAs, project teams, and stakeholders. The role will also play a key part in shaping and documenting the Enterprise Data Model (EDM) required to support integration between new application services and reporting platforms being implemented within DFR.

This position is ideal for a senior data professional ready to operate as a technical lead, combining deep SQL Server expertise with enterprise architecture, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and a willingness to work with emerging Microsoft data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Direction

Provide technical leadership across SQL Server, enterprise data modelling, integration, and reporting platform initiatives.
Lead technical design discussions and provide guidance on database architecture, data structures, integration patterns, and performance optimisation.
Mentor and support developers, DBAs, analysts, and project teams to uplift data platform capability and ensure best-practice delivery.
Collaborate with business, architecture, application, integration, and reporting teams to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
Contribute to technical standards, documentation, governance practices, and continuous improvement across data platforms.
SQL Server Administration & Support

Oversee the administration, maintenance, and support of Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, and production platforms.
Monitor and guide improvements across database health, performance, storage utilisation, backups, and recovery processes.
Support incident response, production troubleshooting, and on-call support requirements where required.
Ensure database security, access controls, compliance requirements, patching, upgrades, migrations, and configuration changes are effectively managed.
Database Development, Optimisation & Delivery

Lead the design, development, review, and optimisation of SQL code, stored procedures, functions, views, and database objects.
Drive performance improvement through query tuning, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and proactive database optimisation.
Identify opportunities to improve database utilisation, scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
Guide the development and optimisation of ETL processes, data integration solutions, and reporting data structures.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex data quality, performance, integration, and platform issues.
Enterprise Data Modelling & Integration

Development and documentation of the organisation's Enterprise Data Model (EDM).
Collaborate with business, application, integration, and reporting teams to define enterprise data structures and standards.
Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support new application services and reporting capabilities.
Ensure data models align with enterprise architecture principles, governance frameworks, and business requirements.
Support integration initiatives by defining data relationships, mappings, and transformation requirements.
Develop and maintain comprehensive data dictionaries and metadata documentation.
Reporting, Analytics & Microsoft Data Platform Enablement

Support reporting and analytics platforms by ensuring data is high-quality, accessible, well-structured, and aligned to business needs.
Work closely with BI and reporting teams to optimise database and data platform structures for reporting workloads.
Contribute to data governance, master data, metadata, and data quality practices.
Bring exposure to, or a willingness to develop capability in, Microsoft Fabric and related services such as Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, OneLake, pipelines, and analytics workloads.

Required experience

Demonstrated experience in a senior SQL Developer, SQL Server DBA, Data Platform Lead, Technical Lead, or similar database-focused role.
Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server administration, development, optimisation, and support within enterprise environments.
Excellent documentation, stakeholder engagement, technical leadership, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to lead technical discussions, influence solution design, and work collaboratively across business, architecture, application, integration, and reporting teams.
Desirable experience

Experience with Microsoft Fabric, or a genuine willingness to learn, including Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, OneLake, pipelines, and analytics services.
Experience supporting enterprise reporting and Business Intelligence environments
Experience with ETL tools and data integration technology
Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks and large-scale digital transformation programs

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate