ITCS Database Administrator: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We are a small team of 3 responsible for maintaining the SQL farm for King’ College hospital (KCH) as well as the EPIC Cogito data warehouse for Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital (GSTT) utilised by the individual Business Intelligence teams.

This an opportunity for an experienced SQL database administrator with prior clustering experience to join our team, become EPIC Cogito accredited and support our SQL farm and Cogito estate.

The role will require working across sites based in both Denmark Hill and Waterloo and also requires some occasional out-of-hours working to support overnight SQL ETL processes as well as some late night Cogito software deployments.

 

Main duties of the job

  • To maintain the Microsoft SQL Database Farm
  • To support the EPIC Cogito databases and infrastructure and provide support to Caboodle business intelligence developers via code migrations, ETL support and deployment of EPIC upgrades.
  • To troubleshoot ETL issues and Cogito platform issues when required.
  • Act as a training resource for developers, EPIC, and other Secure Data System support roles.
  • Provide 3rd line support for Database Farm technical issues.
  • Help define system requirements for new developments in conjunction with clinicians, clinical analysts and project managers.
  • Provide expert advice to other Trust system managers and the Trust in relation to procurement of high cost data systems.
  • Develop software which is needed to support and complement the Trusts databases.
  • Provide expert technical documentation to support systems and system development.
  • Demonstrate software solutions to other technical and clinical staff.
  • To act as a technical liaison person for third party suppliers.
  • Implements ICT policies and proposes changes to improve service.
  • On occasions where out-of-hours working is required to support either SQL farm or Cogito platform, the post-holder would be required to do overtime/on-call and escalate any serious problems to senior members of the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Education

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification
  • Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Masters degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification
  • EPIC accreditation

Previous experience

Essential

  • Significant Experience of working in a Hospital environment
  • Considerable experience of working with databases
  • Expert Experience of managing mission critical software

Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience working with various database formats

Skills/Knowledge/ Ability

Essential

  • Expertise in problems solving, able to analyse and interpret highly complex Database problems using own initiative and ability to support others to develop this skill.

Desirable

  • In depth specialist knowledge of NHS Information Technology procedures and expertise in NHS ICT system management
  • Expert knowledge of the key issues around system implementation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 22 March 2026

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