Lead DBA

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.

This is a senior technical leadership role combining hands‑on engineering with strategic influence. You'll define standards, drive technical decisions, and lead the evolution of database operations toward modern Dev Ops practices. Acting as the lead technical authority, you'll guide a keen but developing team, coaching them to work collaboratively and confidently. You'll 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.

• Deep experience across relational and non-relational platforms (Maria
  
  DB, MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, etc.)
• Excellent understanding of how to define and implement database strategy
• Expertise in HA, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery
• Proven ability ...