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We’re passionate about creating positive experiences and fostering a workplace built on collaboration, efficiency, and continuous improvement. The organization scales we rely on our in-house software development expertise to maintain and improve our operational and customer-facing systems.\nPosition summary\nIn this role, you will be reporting directly to the Development Manager, with support from the wider Development team. Your primary focus will be to take ownership of organization's data layer by optimizing, designing, and architecting our database structures to meet both current operational demands and future scalability requirements.\nThe ability to audit complex legacy schemas, communicate technical improvements to stakeholders, and translate business requirements into highly performant data models is key. This role is accountable for ensuring data integrity, driving query performance optimization, and establishing the foundational database architecture that supports our high-traffic, customer facing and internal systems.\nKey responsibilities of the role\nArchitecture & design - Architect, design, and implement highly scalable, resilient, and secure database systems to support rapidly growing business needs.\nPerformance Optimization - Proactively monitor database performance, analyse bottlenecks, and execute advanced query optimization, indexing strategies, and server tuning.\nStructure Review & Refactoring - Conduct comprehensive audits of existing database structures and legacy schemas. Propose and safely implement structural improvements with zero to minimal system downtime.\nData Modelling - Lead both logical and physical data modelling efforts, ensuring strict data integrity, normalization where appropriate, and alignment with modern software design principles.\nHigh Availability & Security - Design and oversee robust data replication, clustering, disaster recovery protocols, and strict access controls to guarantee data security and maximum uptime.\nCross-Peer Technical Mentorship - Mentor and exchange expertise with the engineering team, elevating team-wide SQL capabilities and enforcing database interaction best practices.\nTechnology Adoption - Continuously evaluate and recommend new database technologies, storage engines, and caching strategies (e.g., advanced Redis implementations) to enhance product performance.\nProblem Solving & Communication - Utilize strong analytical skills to solve complex data challenges and communicate architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.\nRequired experience & technical skills\nTo succeed in this role you need experience with the following tools (or similar) and a demonstrated ability to learn to use new technologies quickly will be highly favoured:\nRelational Databases: MySQL / MariaDB or similar.\nDatabase Design: Advanced logical and physical data modelling.\nPerformance Tuning: Query profiling, indexing strategies, and execution plan analysis.\nCaching & In-Memory Stores: Redis or Memcached.\nLinux Servers: Database administration and shell scripting in a Linux environment.\nVersion Control: Git/GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket for managing schema changes. 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