Harvey Nash
Senior SQL Developer
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Senior SQL Developer
Senior SQL Server Developer
Salary: £60,000–£80,000 + Quarterly Bonus Location: Remote | Occasional travel to Oxford
About the Role
A growing UK-based PaaS provider within the gambling and gaming sector is hiring a Senior SQL Server Developer with deep, specialist expertise in Microsoft SQL Server.
This is strictly a role for database specialists. We are not looking for generalist developers who have used SQL as part of a wider stack. You will be the subject-matter expert for SQL Server in a high-traffic, 24/7, performance-critical environment.
The Role
You’ll design, optimise, and own mission-critical SQL Server databases powering large-scale, high-volume systems.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Design and optimise complex T-SQL stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers
- Own performance tuning (indexing strategies, execution plans, partitioning, 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
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This is a highly analytical role suited to someone who takes pride in producing clean, efficient, and maintainable database code.
Required Experience
An ideal candidate will have:
- 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
- Experience with Service Broker / messaging systems (SQL Server Service Broker, Kafka)
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Preferred (Nice to Have) Experience
- .NET (.NET Core, C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework)
- AWS / Terraform / Cloudflare exposure
- Logging & monitoring tools (Elasticsearch, Rollbar, Sentry)
What’s On Offer
- £60,000–£80,000 salary
- Fully remote working
- Occasional travel to Oxford
- Work in a high-scale, performance-driven PaaS environment
- Collaborative engineering culture where technical excellence is genuinely valued
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