System Build Database Engineer

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What We'll Bring:

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.

What You'll Bring:

As a System Build Database Engineer you will be required to proactively lead or assist Product Delivery teams with troubleshooting issues within the Route to Live environments and to provide consultancy on Route to Live pipelines. There is no expectation of on-call out of hours support however on occasion you will be required to assist with supporting deployments out of core business hours.
 
Day-to-Day you will:

• 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.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
• Troubleshooting data issues, providing consultancy in the area of data growth and ongoing maintenance.
• Supporting product teams with general SQL queries and maintenance requests

Skills and Experience:

• 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, Replication)
• Familiarity with use of source control, especially around database projects (including branching, workflow, peer reviews etc.) / Good technical understanding of TFS/Azure DevOps Server and Octopus Deploy.
• Basic level of PowerShell scripting.

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

We’re happy to talk flexible working. We operate a hybrid model allowing you to explore the balance of work and hours from home and/or from our offices in Leeds or London.

• 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 so you can get involved in causes close to your heart.

TransUnion – a place to grow: 

If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying.  We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.

We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together

Flexibility at TU:

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond.  If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying.  Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.com

Interview & Hiring Process 

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this. 

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies.  If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.  

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TransUnion Job Title

Engineer, Development Ops