Senior SQL Developer

Salary: £33,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server 2016+
• Advanced query writing and optimisation
• Execution plan analysis and performance troubleshooting
• Deep understanding of indexing, locking and concurrency
• SSIS experience
• Service Broker / messaging systems (SSSB, Kafka)
• Database security, roles and best practices

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise complex T-SQL stored procedures, functions, views and triggers
• Own performance tuning, including indexing strategies, execution plans, partitioning and statistics
• Conduct deep root-cause analysis on production performance issues
• Contribute to schema design, capacity planning and lifecycle management
• Ensure data integrity, security and compliance best practices
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture and DevOps teams
• Act as a data leader and mentor within the wider team

Technologies

• DevOps
• Kafka
• PaaS
• SQL
• Security
• SSIS
• ASP.NET
• AWS
• C#
• Cloud
• ElasticSearch
• Sentry
• Terraform

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We are a growing UK-based PaaS provider in the gambling and gaming sector. We are hiring a Senior SQL Server Developer to serve as the subject-matter expert for SQL Server in a high-traffic, 24/7, performance-critical environment. This is a remote role with occasional travel to Oxford. We offer a salary of £60,000–£80,000 plus quarterly bonus, and you will work in a collaborative engineering culture where technical excellence is genuinely valued.

last updated 32 week of 2026