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Albrighton, England, Gb

Albrighton, England, Gb

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of developers and business analysts tasked with shaping new and innovative ways for how Risk Division operates through automation. Responsible for liaising with the business teams to shape the scope of initiatives and to overcome challenges. In order to perform this effectively the role is responsible for creating and refining a framework in which costs, benefits, risks, issues, standards and quality can be measured. Responsible for delivery budgets ensuring all deliveries are within budget.

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Responsible for the end to end business design for the cloud platform part of which is the primary day to day contact with the infrastructure cloud service provider. Responsible for providing effective leadership for the business maximising the outputs and quality of the cloud platform to meet the needs of our customers. Additionally responsible to drive the cloud infrastructure strategy, working collaboratively with application areas and wider architectural teams within the bank and relevant 3rd parties.

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of 6 permanent staff and 27 augmented offshore resources delivering database lifecycle management activities including provisioning, patching, currency and decommissioning services to the Bank. Additional responsibility to create an automation function to streamline the core team responsibilities with the end focus of delivering DBaaS cloud offerings. Accountable for managing 3rd party vendors, negotiations of contracts and the delivery of new technical solutions to reduce the technology total cost of ownership. Ensure strong relationships with business areas, Senior Management and Executives

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

Primary role of leading a highly skilled support team made up of eight UK based and twelve offshore DBA’s. The core responsibility of the role was ensuring service stability for the SQL Server estate with secondary responsibilities to Oracle and DB2 platforms. Accountable for liaising with 3rd party vendors, negotiation of contracts and delivery of new technical solutions to reduce the technology total cost of ownership.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of 8 skilled DBA's accountable for the delivery of all DB2 artefacts ensuring delivery within time and budget. Contribute to the development and maintenance of the strategic roadmap and supporting policies for DB2. Assist with the 5 year financial plan and quarterly reforecast for software licenses and maintenance as required. Accountable for the liaising with 3rd party vendors, negotiations of contracts and the delivery of new technical solutions to reduce the technology total cost of ownership. Ensure strong relationships with business areas and key stakeholders, senior management and executives. Ensure a smooth transition of project delivery into business as usual support.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Assist with database design to implement logical data definitions. To provide appropriate physical database design, integrity, recovery and audit procedures to protect data held in line with regulatory requirements. Planning and co-coordinating technical support to GT and Business Systems applying technical expertise to maintain agreed service levels which includes 24x7 standby and callout support. Align database structure to meet new business requirements. Define procedures in line with agreed architecture and maintain and work to appropriate standards. Undertake or participate in technical evaluations of specific Items of database related software and make recommendations as required. Manage a small team of technical staff as appropriate. Provide technical expertise and guidance to less experienced colleagues, database developers and users