Application DBA (1 year relevant experience required)

Join us as an Application DBA at Barclays where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. Youll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as:
? Strong experience in project data lifecycle management from data requirements through to deployment
? DB2 mainframe database skills
? Liaising with data modellers
? Job-specific technical skills

Additional experience in banking or financial services and experience in database programming languages such as PLSQL is highly valued.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this role, such as:
? Risk and controls
? Change and transformation
? Business acumen
? Strategic thinking
? Digital and technology
? Job-specific technical skills

This role will be based out of our Knutsford campus.

**Purpose of the role**
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

**Accountabilities**
? Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
? Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
? Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scriptingcoding disciplines.
? Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
? Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data-driven approach.
? Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organizations technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
? Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
? Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policiesprocedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
? Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
? Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
? Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
? Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
? Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
? Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.