Database Platform Manager

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p></p> <p><strong><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">About THG Ingenuity</span></strong></p> <p>THG Ingenuity is a fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, designed to power brands without limits. Our global end-to-end tech platform is comprised of three products: THG Commerce, THG Studios, THG Fulfilment.&nbsp;</p> <p>Each represents a single, unified solution, overcoming challenges and taking brands direct-to-consumer. Our client portfolio includes globally recognised brands such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Elemis, Homebase, and Proctor &amp; Gamble.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Database Platform Manager</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Company:&nbsp;</span></strong><span data-contrast="none">THG Ingenuity&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><strong><span data-contrast="none">Location:&nbsp;</span></strong><span data-contrast="none">Manchester (Head Office)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":40}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Reports to:&nbsp;</span></strong><span data-contrast="none">Director of Data &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Role Overview</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":320,"335559739":120,"335572079":6,"335572080":4,"335572081":12566463,"469789806":"single"}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">We are looking for a strong technical leader to run our database platform.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Our estate runs on Google Cloud Platform following a recent migration to self-managed services, and there is a real opportunity here to shape the next phase. How we consolidate and modernise the estate, where managed and cloud-native services earn their place, which new technologies are worth adopting, and how the platform scales with the business are all live questions. You will lead the thinking on them and work with stakeholders across the business to agree and deliver the roadmap.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">You will lead our DBA team, who own every database across the group regardless of the application running on it and who run the platform as a 24/7 service. You will work hand in hand with our Data Reliability Engineering team, whose Principal Engineer is your peer and whose focus is automation, fleet reliability and SLOs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">This role is weighted toward hands-on technical depth. You should be as credible in a design review or an incident bridge as you are in a planning session with senior stakeholders.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Key Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":320,"335559739":120,"335572079":6,"335572080":4,"335572081":12566463,"469789806":"single"}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Technical direction</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":200,"335559739":80}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":431,"335559991":259,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">The technical roadmap for the estate. We want someone genuinely interested in emerging database technologies who evaluates them on merit and can articulate the pros and cons clearly to a technical or non-technical audience</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":431,"335559991":259,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybr

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