Lead Database Administrator

Leads the operation, performance and resilience of the databases that power McLaren F1. It owns the technical direction and health of a database estate spanning on-premises, cloud and trackside environments. The postholder works with platform engineering, Racing IT, software engineers and data scientists to establish high engineering standards, improve platform efficiency through optimisation and automation, and develop database expertise across the team.

• Own the availability, performance and integrity of relational, NoSQL, streaming and timeseries database platforms.
• Partner with engineering teams to develop flexible data models, optimise queries and support future performance and capacity needs.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and database operations to increase efficiency, reduce latency and support scaling.
• Maintain robust backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities while supporting data protection and security requirements.
• Drive database standards and automation across provisioning, schema changes, patching and upgrades.
• Lead the response to database incidents, including root cause analysis and resulting platform or process improvements.
• Evaluate technologies and application use cases to identify solutions that balance performance and cost efficiency.
• Lead database projects from planning and budgeting through to high-quality delivery.
• Provide technical direction, mentor colleagues and communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.