Job Description
Vacancy Title: Lead Database Administrator
Location: Manchester
Salary: £90,000
The Company: Lorien are working with a leading technology driven organisation scaling its data operations to support mission critical platforms. They're looking for a Lead Database Administrator to own the technical direction, architecture, and roadmap for their database estate while mentoring a talented, growing team.
The Role: This is a senior technical leadership role combining hands on engineering with strategic influence. You will define standards, drive technical decisions, and lead the evolution of database operations toward modern DevOps practices. Acting as the lead technical authority, you will guide a keen but developing team, coaching them to work collaboratively and confidently. You will be at the centre of architectural decisions, ensuring environments are secure and scalable. The role spans infrastructure, automation, and reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD and operational maturity.
Skill RequirementsWe're looking for candidates with a blend of the following:
- Deep experience across relational and non-relational platforms (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
- Excellent understanding of how to define and implement database strategy
- Expertise in HA, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues
- Experience leading teams and mentoring junior engineers
- Hands on experience with CI/CD, automation, and IaC (Ansible, Terraform)
- Salary up to £90,000 + bonus
- Hybrid working model (Manchester based, 2 days onsite)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Opportunity to define database strategy and lead a high performing team
If you're ready to take ownership of technical direction and help shape the future of database operations, we'd love to hear from you. Interviews are being arranged over the coming weeks, send over your CV to be considered.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
