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.

The Role:
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 DevOps 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.

The Skill Requirements:
We'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)

The Benefits:

• 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.