The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.
A career in our Tax Technology Innovation practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients’ tax departments redesign, redefine, and redeploy tax to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You’ll focus on assisting clients incorporate increased automation in the tax reporting process, increase analytic capabilities through data integration, and create solid internal controls that will enable the Tax function to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
Our team develops complex software capabilities leveraging the latest in technology to meet today’s hard business problems. You’ll focus on providing highly customisable platforms across the tax practice through research, development, and integration to build adaptable enterprise capabilities. It’s our mission to identify, apply and drive innovation through the application of ground-breaking and unique technologies to set PwC apart from the competition.
PwC UK Tax Tech & Innovation is a multi-disciplinary technology unit in the Tax and Legal space. We are comprised of Architects, Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Testers, Machine Learning engineers & Tax / Legal SMEs.
We are currently looking for an experienced DBA/developer to help with managing our DB stack. We cover a wide range of technologies and have a substantial footprint in Azure and GCP.
Role
You will be the first DBA/database developer in our team which consists of many talented and highly experienced IT professionals. You can expect to be working with different database technologies and hosting platforms. You will be working closely with our DevSecOps team on improving our ways of working and promoting best practices. Big part of the role is education and consultancy within and outside of the team.
Responsibilities
- Administer MS SQL Server databases (user access, backups strategy, security strategy, audit, encryption)
- Design databases and infrastructure fit for purpose
- Support live systems
- Data quality assurance
- Manage deployment process of new versions of BI solutions
- Develop, support and maintain BI solutions (including database engine, ETL, cubes, SSRS reports, web application)
- Work with DevSecOps Team
- Identify and resolve performance problems
- Organise training sessions for team
Required skills
- Database platforms: SQL Server 2008R2 (or newer), Azure SQL, MongoDB or CosmosDB, MySQL or MariaDB 10.2 (or newer)
- ETL: Alteryx, SQL Server SSIS, Azure DataFactory
- Proficiency in programming languages: C#, F#, Powershell, T-SQL, MDX, Python
- Knowledge of distributed enterprise systems concepts and design (scalability, reliability, security, disaster recovery)
- Strong experience with MS stack including MS Azure
- Database, data warehouse development
- Git
- Experience with one or more of the Big Data solutions: HDInsights, Spark, Hadoop
Nice to have experience
- Database version control (e.g. Flyway)
- Elasticsearch or Azure Search
- Power BI, Tableau, D3js
- BI Development / consultancy
- Javascript, R, bash
- Azure Devops, Terraform
- SAP HANA
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.
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Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.