Staff Database Administrator

Management Level F Business Unit - Database Platform Job Title - Staff Database Administrator Reporting to - Database Platform Manager Date - August 2026 Overview of Equiniti Group Equiniti (EQ) is a leading provider of technology-led financial and administration services, helping some of the world's largest organisations manage and engage with their customers, shareholders and investors. EQ delivers critical services across shareholder administration, employee share plans, customer remediation and payments, supporting millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our services underpin some of the most important financial interactions in the market. We work with many of the UK's and US's largest organisations, providing secure, resilient and innovative solutions that help our clients meet regulatory requirements, improve customer experiences and deliver trusted outcomes. EQ supports millions of shareholders globally and operates across multiple international markets. Technology is central to our continued transformation and growth. We are investing heavily in modern cloud platforms, automation and digital capabilities, including the migration of critical services from traditional on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Our technology teams play a key role in delivering secure, scalable and highly available platforms that support business-critical services for customers around the world. At Equiniti, you'll have the opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise platforms, challenging transformation programmes and industry-leading technologies while collaborating with talented teams across the UK, Central Europe, India and North America. We are committed to fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and professional development, empowering our colleagues to make a meaningful impact on both our business and our customers. Role Summary This is a hands-on Database Platform role requiring strong technical expertise alongside excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery, migration, administration and continual improvement of enterprise database platforms across both on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments. The role will include supporting strategic migration programmes from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, as well as the ongoing management and optimisation of database services hosted across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The successful candidate will ensure database platform operational readiness through effective monitoring, security, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery and capacity management practices. Working closely with application, infrastructure, cloud engineering and project delivery teams, they will provide technical leadership and support throughout the database lifecycle. The databases maintained…