Database Engineer - Hedge Fund

Paragon are working with a world class hedge fund, to hire a Senior Database Platform Engineer for a key role within their Database Engineering team.

This position is focused on building and operating a modern database platform centred around automation, infrastructure as code, and declarative database management. The successful candidate will help drive the adoption of schema-as-code principles across SQL Server and Snowflake environments, ensuring deployments are version-controlled, auditable, and repeatable.

Key requirements:

• Strong SQL Server experience, including performance tuning, indexing, Always On Availability Groups, replication, and security

• Hands-on Snowflake experience, including data modelling, RBAC, Snowpipe, and cost optimisation

• Proven experience with Terraform

• Strong understanding of declarative, state-based database deployments using tools such as Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas

• Experience integrating database changes into CI/CD and GitOps workflows

• Python and/or PowerShell skills for automation

The role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale platform engineering initiatives, including automated provisioning, self-service capabilities, observability tooling, and migration of legacy database workloads onto a modern engineering platform.

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