5 Database Developer jobs in Ireland

Job Description And Benefits
Entegro is at the forefront of Telecommunications technology, designing and deploying gigabit networks for future generations. We are proud to be industry leaders, working with communities, industry, and service providers, to empower and connect people, homes, and businesses, in urban and rural areas.

Entegro offers fully managed, out-sourced solutions or combinations of individual component services, as required. All backed by Entegro's commitment to quality, communication, and social responsibility.

The VBA Database Developer is a key technical role within Entegro, responsible for designing and delivering a bespoke Microsoft Access based application to manage circuit inventories during a complex network site consolidation programme. The role sits at the intersection of data management, automation, and operational delivery, ensuring that accurate, timely, and actionable information underpins Entegro's network transition activities.

The position requires a hands-on developer with technical expertise in Microsoft Access, VBA, and relational database design, coupled with an understanding of telecoms network concepts such as circuits, sites, and equipment inventories. The successful candidate will translate operational needs into a structured, maintainable database system that supports multi-user collaboration and real-time progress tracking.

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Earn a competitive salary that reflects your experience and dedication in our innovative workplace.
• Customisable Benefits Programme where you choose what perks you want each year: choose from Additional Annual Leave, Health Insurance, Pension and Fitness / Gym Membership.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to ensure expert support for your mental health & financial well-being whenever you need it.
• Death in Service benefits, for peace of mind and financial security.
• Constant Learning & Career Development via our Track For Talent development programme, with the option to further progress your capabilities across 3 areas: Technical, Business and Emotional.
• Collaborate with supportive colleagues in a professional and welcoming environment.
• Community connection, we frequently sponsor fundraisers, teams and causes that are close to our hearts.
• And finally, we recognise our teammates and celebrate our wins.
• Join our team and be part of shaping the future of network innovation

Please Note: Only candidates permitted to work in the EU will be considered for this role.

Responsibilities
You will work closely with network engineering and project management teams to define requirements, design the database schema, and implement forms, logic, and reports that support the consolidation of network sites. Your Access application will provide a single source of truth for circuit tracking, linking physical assets, logical connections, and migration milestones into a coherent, user-friendly tool.

In this role, you will take ownership of the full development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and prototype design through to delivery, documentation, and handover. The system you develop will become a critical enabler for Entegro's site consolidation programme, helping teams to visualise progress, identify dependencies, and maintain data integrity across multiple workstreams.

This position demands a technically capable developer who is comfortable working independently, managing deliverables, and liaising with end users to refine and optimise the solution as it evolves

• Design and develop a Microsoft Access application to manage circuit inventories through their migration lifecycle.
• Implement robust VBA logic to handle user interactions, data validation, automated workflows, and error handling.
• Design and maintain a relational database schema suited to multi-user environments.
• Develop intuitive forms, reports, and menus to support data entry, review, and reporting.
• Implement record locking and concurrency controls to allow simultaneous multi-user access via a shared network or SharePoint location.
• Ensure data consistency and referential integrity across all tables and relationships.
• Produce detailed technical and user documentation to support long-term maintenance and knowledge transfer.
• Liaise with stakeholders to capture functional requirements and align the database design with operational workflows.
• Support integration or import/export of data from external sources (e.g., Excel, CSV, SQL extracts).

Essential
Skills required

• Minimum 3 years experience developing applications using Microsoft Access and VBA.
• Proven track record in designing and maintaining multi-user Access databases.
• Strong understanding of form and report design, VBA programming, and SQL query optimisation.
• Experience building automated workflows and validation rules using VBA.
• Practical understanding of telecoms or network infrastructure environments, including circuit and site inventory management.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and manage deliverables to agreed timelines.

Desirable

• Experience integrating Access with SharePoint or SQL Server backends.
• Familiarity with network planning, circuit provisioning, or GIS data structures.
• Understanding of version control and deployment best practices for Access applications.
• Knowledge of reporting tools such as Power BI or Excel Power Query.

Attributes

• Methodical, structured, and detail-oriented approach to software design.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactive in identifying improvements, simplifying workflows, and ensuring data accuracy.
• Capable of balancing autonomy with collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

We're looking for a Senior Database Developer to play a key role in delivering robust, citizen-focused software solutions for government clients. With over 7 years of experience developing enterprise applications using Oracle, you'll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to support and mentor your team.

This is a great opportunity to shape the data backbone of critical public services—ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability at every level.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of views, code, stored procedures, triggers, packages
• Developing customised reports and system generated documents.
• Coding in adherence to the Department and Oracle standards.
• Performing preventative maintenance activities.
• Preparation and maintenance of technical documentation.
• Managing project source code and documentation.
• Effort estimation & quality control of code and other deliverables.
• Version control of application code.
• Database tuning and performance monitoring
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex database problems.
• Advising on Oracle features and on best practice and optimal approach in the use of PL/SQL.
• Conducting developer code reviews.
• Provision of mentoring and skills transfer to colleague as and when required.
• Management of DBA routine tasks e.g. roles, privileges, synonyms, schemas, objects, tablespaces across multiple environments.
• Writing database deployment scripts in compliance with release management standards.
• Development on multiple concurrent projects to strict deadlines.
• Data modelling and database design.
• Issue analysis, diagnosis and resolution.
• Writing complex PL/SQL for Oracle 19c Databases

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Essential Skills
Technical Skills~

• Designing and building Oracle database schemas and ensuring their stability, reliability, and performance.

• Oracle PL/SQL coding including but not limited to~

• Oracle Built-in Packages/Bulk Collect/lnsert/Array Processing/ Ref Cursors o Dynamic SQL —literal and bind variables

• Application Tuning
• Creation of scripts to generate views, procedures, functions, triggers, indexes, constraints and packages

• Data Definition and Transaction Control Language, SQL tuning and Oracle query optimisation using cost based optimiser and other query optimisation tools

• Demonstrate experience in administering a Jenkins instance in order to build windows executables.

• Oracle database design & implementation of logical and physical data model.
• Build and maintenance of largescale databases in a development environment.

• Other technical skill requirements include~

• Understand Excel spreadsheets manipulation using only PL/SQL (read and write)

• Ability to manipulate binary files (BLOB) in PL/SQL
• Programmatically read and write Json and XML using only custom PL/SQL (and explicitly not using the built-in Oracle packages/objects)
• Knowledge of JavaScript, application processes and Ajax
• Understanding of APEX Themes, CSS, and UI customization

• Toolset Experience

• Oracle

• Oracle ORDS
• Developing Oracle APEX reports
• Linux
• Jira
• Confluence

Consultancy Skills~

• Strong client-facing skills, with the ability to build trust and communicate effectively
• Ability to lead and mentor, fostering a culture of learning and knowledge sharing
• Collaborative team player
• Self-driven and disciplined

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in application development
• Public sector experience preferred

Benefits
At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV's and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.

Job Title: Principal Data Analyst- Financial Modeling
Job Requisition Number:

Location: Dublin and/or Letterkenny

Workplace / Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

Business Segment: Optum

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About The Role

As a leader within our Network Pricing team, you'll help drive effective drug pricing decisions within our provider networks to meet client and pharmacy contract guarantees through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis and reporting. As you do, you'll find that you can make a real impact while enjoying the resources, backing and opportunities that you'd expect from a Fortune 5 leader.

Ready for a challenge? You will need all your leadership skills and creativity as you manage and develop provider networks that achieve performance objectives. As a result, there is a high level of visibility and accountability for results.

About The Team
The team primarily supports the network contracting team but will also work on complex analysis related to the overall business strategy for OptumRx. Working with Finance, Network Contracting, Client Contract Management, Legal, Regulatory, and Operations teams. Primarily working with databricks for data extraction and Power BI for visualizations. Some SLT reporting is done in excel where preferred. The team meets regularly to discuss their priorities and will collaborate on different projects, depending on scope._

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What You'll Do

• Leading delivery of reporting & dashboarding projects from individual contract line items to global book of business views. Ensuring the solutions are robust, sustainable and scalable; engaging with IT, broader team and Senior Leadership as required
• Owning the development of the required data pipelines to support our reporting and partnering with IT as required
• Lead the development of new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging requirements.
• Direct analytics projects with segment-wide and/or enterprise-wide impact
• Influence senior management decisions that impact business direction

What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant experience in financial modeling/analytical roles (e.g. business analysis, financial analysis, data analytics)
• Demonstrable experience leading or owning projects, with accountability of work for senior and/or management level team members
• Technical experience in Python or SQL and MS Excel
• Data visualization experience with Tableau or Power BI
• Strong communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines

If you don't meet every single requirement, don't let that hold you back-we're just as

excited about potential as we are about qualifications and experience, and you could be

exactly who we're looking for.

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About Us
UnitedHealth Group is a Fortune 10 global health care leader committed to helping people live healthier lives and improving the health care system for everyone. The organization operates through two complementary businesses (learn more about UnitedHealth Group):

• UnitedHealthcare, which offers health benefits and insurance services (learn more about UnitedHealthcare)
• Optum, which provides care delivery, technology, and data-driven health solutions (learn more about Optum)

Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd, with offices in Dublin and Letterkenny, serves as a strategic innovation and technology hub, driving transformation in health care through advanced analytics, software engineering, and clinical expertise (learn more about Optum Ireland).

Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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What We Offer

• Opportunities for professional development
• Inclusive and supportive team culture
• (Other benefits: e.g., health insurance, wellness programs, etc.)

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How To Apply
Click "Apply" and submit your CV or LinkedIn profile. If you need any accommodations during the application process, please let us know - we're here to help.

Interview Process
Should you application be shortlisted the process will be as follows:

• Recruiter Call (within 10 working days of application)
• Initial Call from Hiring Manager
• Technical assessment
• Final Interview
• Technical Interview
• Business Fit/Meet the Team

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Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application
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All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.