Overview Of Y TREE
We are a rapidly growing FinTech business that is re-defining how individuals and families connect and engage with their money. We provide our clients with control over their personal finances, enhancing their ability to achieve their financial and life aspirations.
We are harnessing sophisticated portfolio analytics, innovative behavioural psychology and cutting-edge UX/UI to create a revolutionary experience and transformational outcomes for our users. The business was founded in 2017 by three successful entrepreneurs and business-builders with diverse experiences and skill-sets in Technology, Corporate Advice and Investment Management and is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors.
Team Overview & The Role
The Platform Teams are responsible for all aspects of infrastructure systems and end-user support. We are aligned with the AWS 6 pillars framework to provide a robust operationally focused team that supports the growth and delivery of cross-company goals utilising our specific skill sets.
The right candidate will be a passionate Administrator with a can-do and positive attitude. As part of the Platform teams, you will play a vital role in managing, maintaining and supporting and improving our AWS/Office Data platforms as well as resolving support requests logged via the Helpdesk system.
Main Responsibilities
- Administer, manage, and monitor databases, in all environments.
- Manage and support data within data platforms in the cloud and on premise
- Design and implement best practices for database level, schema level and object level security.
- Implement high availability, reliable and secure data platforms.
- Manage the monitoring on the data platforms including
- Performance tuning.
- Own and review backup and retention policies.
- Work collaboratively with technology teams and users to implement solutions/improvements and issue resolution
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support deployment activities
Required Skills
- Strong experience in AWS cloud based data platforms
- Strong experience in PostgreSQL database administration (or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of data warehousing
- Strong understanding of managing and maintaining Postgres instances
- Experience with data platform maintenance (table partitioning, replication, encryption, recovery, clustering)
- Experience with MongoDB/DynamoDB and S3
Desired Skills
- Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Kafka
- Terraform
Personal Characteristics
- We nurture leadership potential, and try to provide opportunities and space for your professional growth - in whichever direction you want; either in leading teams and mentoring, leading technical ideas and their implementation, or both. We want you to be someone who is comfortable taking the lead when required.
- We would like you to be organised, structured and meticulous, with great time management skills.
- We want you to be eager to learn and passionate about technology; we strongly believe in people who are ready to develop themselves and who see this as their responsibility, while we are doing our best to give you the opportunities and guidance
- We are driving innovation in our area of personal finance, and our product is a reflection of our team. We want you to be an independent and critical thinker who can identify issues and challenges and build logical steps to overcome them
- Our community is where our power lies, so you must be an effective collaborator and confident working as part of a small team that is building a business.
- We strongly believe that continuous and timely feedback is important for personal growth, and we’re looking for someone open to giving and receiving feedback.
- This role requires a lot of interpersonal communication with our community so the ability to clearly articulate your thoughts and ideas plays a key role in success.
Location
- Central London (Hybrid - 2 days a week in the office)
Benefits
- The ability to hone your skills and cultivate your craft in a genuinely outcome-led, flexible, happy work environment.
- We have a hybrid working policy and the ability to flex your hours as you need.
- 25 days of annual leave per year. In our outcome-led environment, we prioritise work-life balance and understand the importance of flexibility for appointments - you won't need to take leave for doctor's appointments or attending your children's school plays!
- Regular team socials to help you switch off from work and get to know your colleagues in an environment away from your desk. We ensure socials are well balanced and offer a variety of activities to suit different needs so you always feel welcome.
- A welcoming, dog-friendly London office with appropriate spaces to cater for those with varying needs in the form of various breakout spaces and silent booths.
- Support for your mental and physical health in the form of online fitness classes and access to a gym group in London.
- Option for salary sacrifice scheme to help you save for the future.
- Family-friendly policies.
To learn more about Y TREE and our events please follow our company LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/y-tree/
At Y TREE we look to build diversity in our teams; diversity of thought, culture, backgrounds and perspectives. Please come as you are and let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you in your application process. Additionally, if you don't feel you meet 100% of the requirements please apply anyway if you feel you can demonstrate your suitability to the role. Please note, sponsorship is not available for this role 
