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About the Role

Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions. We are a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI, building high-performing, results-driven teams. Every role drives our mission forward, creating an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems supporting critical platform and business services.
• Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments.
• Lead platform improvement initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing production support.
• Monitor, optimise, and automate database operations to improve resilience, availability, and efficiency.
• Identify and address technical debt, capacity constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the data platform.
• Support the reliability of data pipelines and services by ensuring underlying storage and database layers are scalable, performant, and well-governed.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen platform stability.
• Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to share knowledge, improve standards, and evolve platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems.
• Proven ability to own services end-to-end and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and operability.
• Comfortable making technical decisions, balancing factors such as performance, scalability, security, cost, and long-term sustainability.
• Solid understanding of database design, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering principles.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management practices.
• Understanding of data platforms, data pipelines, and how data supports analytics and business services.
• Combines strong technical expertise with excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable working across engineering and data teams, contributing to platform evolution while continuously developing technical capabilities.

Location

• London

About the Company

• At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI.
• We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes at pace.
• We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.
• We believe diverse teams make better decisions, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels empowered to grow, contribute, and thrive.