Senior Database Consultant | Contract | £800 per day | Outside IR35
Posted Today by Albion Blake
£800 Per day
Outside
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Database Consultant role is a contract position focused on supporting an Insurance client with key data and infrastructure initiatives across their database platforms. The consultant will work hands-on to optimize SQL database environments, troubleshoot performance issues, and implement best practices for database management. This position requires extensive experience in database consulting, particularly within the insurance sector, and involves collaboration with engineering teams to enhance database performance and stability. The role is remote and offers a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assessing and optimising existing SQL database environments
- Leading database performance tuning and optimisation initiatives
- Troubleshooting complex database performance issues and incidents
- Supporting database upgrades, migrations, and modernisation projects
- Improving database monitoring, stability, and operational efficiency
- Implementing and reviewing backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies
- Advising on database design, scalability, and best practices
- Collaborating with engineering teams to optimise query performance and database architecture
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience working as a Senior DBA or Database Consultant within Insurance
- Strong expertise with SQL Server or enterprise SQL database platforms
- Proven experience delivering database performance tuning and optimisation
- Experience supporting large-scale or complex database environments
- Strong understanding of database architecture, scalability, and optimisation strategies
- Experience implementing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
- Ability to troubleshoot high-impact database incidents and performance issues
- Experience collaborating with engineering and infrastructure teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills within complex technical environments
Salary (Rate): £800 daily
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Database Consultant – Contract - £800 per day Outside IR35 4-Month Initial Contract | Remote
We are currently supporting an Insurance client who is looking to engage an experienced Senior Database Consultant to support several key data and infrastructure initiatives across their database platforms. You'll be working alongside experienced engineering and infrastructure teams, helping ensure the organisation’s database environments remain secure, scalable, and high-performing.
What You’ll Be Working On
This is a hands-on consulting role where you’ll provide expertise across the organisation’s database estate. Key project areas will include:
- Assessing and optimising existing SQL database environments
- Leading database performance tuning and optimisation initiatives
- Troubleshooting complex database performance issues and incidents
- Supporting database upgrades, migrations, and modernisation projects
- Improving database monitoring, stability, and operational efficiency
- Implementing and reviewing backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies
- Advising on database design, scalability, and best practices
- Collaborating with engineering teams to optimise query performance and database architecture
What My Clients Looking For:
- Extensive experience working as a Senior DBA or Database Consultant within Insurance
- Strong expertise with SQL Server or enterprise SQL database platforms
- Proven experience delivering database performance tuning and optimisation
- Experience supporting large-scale or complex database environments
- Strong understanding of database architecture, scalability, and optimisation strategies
- Experience implementing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
- Ability to troubleshoot high-impact database incidents and performance issues
- Experience collaborating with engineering and infrastructure teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills within complex technical environments