Overview

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TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms.
• Building and continuously improving CI/CD Pipelines to ensure databases are deployed and configured using automation technologies.
• Establish consistent standards for ensuring High Availability and Fault Tolerant systems.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
• Troubleshooting data issues, providing consultancy in the area of data growth and ongoing maintenance.
• Proof of Concept work to enhance and support the work of the System Build team.
• Contribute to and evangelise community best practices.
• Establish yourself as the Subject Matter Expert for the Product area you are embedded within.
• Ensuring that systems are compliant (SOX, PCI etc.).
• Manage own workload.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Held a DBA role for three or more years working with SQL Server (2017, 2019, 2022)
• Experience with SQL Server migrations and upgrades.
• Advanced use of T-SQL (stored procedures, SQL Agent Jobs, Deployment automation)
• Experience of High Availability / Disaster Recovery technologies (Mirroring, Always On Availability Groups)
• Experience of Replication (especially transactional with centralised distribution)
• Proven experience of working with sensitive data in a secure manner.
• Understanding of DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies
• Familiarity with use of source control, especially around database projects (including branching, workflow, peer reviews etc.)
• Familiarity with either Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps Server or other CI/CD tooling
• Basic level of PowerShell scripting.
• Excellent troubleshooting/fault resolution skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and embrace industry developments and practices from both a Development and Operations background.

What’s In It For You / Benefits

• 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities

Additional Information

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and offer reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments, please contact ukrecruitment@transunion.com.

Interview & Hiring Process: Most recruitment processes are virtual; if an in-person interview is needed, your recruiter will inform you. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies.

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