Senior Analyst, Database Administrator

Job title:

Senior Analyst, Database Administrator

Company

Carnival Corporation

Job description

Job Description

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience, and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less, or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events, and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.

The Role

We are looking to recruit a Senior Analyst, Database Administration within our Technology Infrastructure team to take responsibility for the administration, support, maintenance, and continuous service improvement of our database technologies across the shore and ship estate. This entails design, development, and deployment across multiple technology stacks.

Setting the standard for how database technologies are operated by providing design and technical expertise, capacity management, reporting, and proactive and reactive operational support, as well as guidance, mentoring, and an escalation point for colleagues across the Technology department.

You Will

• Provide SME input to all database technologies for operational and project delivery purposes, proactively reviewing database platforms to identify opportunities for continual service improvement
• Proactively act as a senior escalation point, mentor, and guide to the rest of the Applications team, making decisions as needed to guide daily priorities. Support and build strong working relationships within Architecture, Security, and other Technology departments to ensure operational realities are considered throughout the technical lifecycle
• Responsible for the smooth running of the production and non-production database environments, which includes SQL Server and Oracle databases across varying versions, Installation of DBMS software and creation of databases
• Undertake reactive and pro-active maintenance of Carnival’s database estate, including incident resolution, fault-finding, resolving deadlocks, including problem management, database tuning and optimisation, tablespace management, patching, and capacity management
• Act as a technical lead in all Database-related activities on all UK and Global cross-brand activities as well as operational planning conversations, working closely with external partners and third-party suppliers as needed

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK08 and is offered on a full time, permanent contract basis}, with hybrid working in our Southampton office, 3 days per week.

About You

Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

• Previous background supporting enterprise-level production databases
• Experience with Oracle and Microsoft DBMS, SSIS and SSRS
• Ideally had experience with tools such as Business Objects, Tableau or Data Warehouses
• Demonstrated you have worked through change management experiences

Being part of our team has its advantages…

We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

• Home and office-based hybrid working, with 3 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• A friendly welcome with help settling in

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About Us

Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.

Expected salary

Location

Southampton

Job date

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:03:07 GMT

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