The Riverside Group

Progress OpenEdge Database Administrator Job Description Job Title: Progress Open Edge Database Administrator Contract Type: Fixed term contract 18 months Salary: £47,596 Per annum (£52,606 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role) Working Hours: 35 Hours per week Working Pattern: Monday-Friday/Hybrid Location: Liverpool The difference you will make as a Progress Open Edge Database Administrator You will own the stability, performance, security, and lifecycle of Progress OpenEdge databases and the Pro2 replication estate. You will design, build, tune and operate mission-critical Progress environments (PASOE/AppServer-backed) and ensure robust data movement into downstream systems (e.g., SQL Server/Snowflake) through Pro2 for analytics, integration, and reporting. You will be the subject-matter expert for OpenEdge database internals, after-imaging, backup/recovery, and replication patterns, enabling high availability, business continuity, and secure-by-design operations. About you We are looking for someone with Proven experience, including proutil, rfutil, dbanalys, AI/BI management, storage areas, and index maintenance Pro2 expertise: Proven experience deploying and supporting Pro2 replication at scale (thousands+ tables, near real-time SLAs), including trigger management, agent tuning, and conflict handling Performance tuning: Deep understanding of locking, latching, buffer management, scatter/clustering, and workload profiling Backup/DR: Online backups, AI roll-forward, PITR, replication to secondaries; evidence of DR testing and RTO/RPO accountability Why Riverside? At Riverside, we're a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we've been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives. We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us. Working with us, you'll enjoy: Competitive pay & generous pension 28 days holidays plus bank holidays Flexible working options available Investment in your learning, personal development and technology A wide range of benefits Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside: We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues. Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role they will be guaranteed an interview. This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview. Applications Core OpenEdge Database Administration Environment ownership: Install, configure, and patch OpenEdge RDBMS (v12+) on the Microsoft Windows platform; maintain PASOE/AppServer where relevant Operational excellence: Manage database startup parameters, AI/BI areas, storage areas, extents, and block/record settings for performance and resilience Backup & recovery: Design and run probkup/prorest strategies (cold, online, incremental); manage AI archiving, roll-forward recovery, and DR runbooks Performance engineering: Baseline and tune buffer pools, latch/lock contention, schema & index design, scatter factor, stats, index rebuilds, and system-level parameters Capacity & lifecycle: Forecast growth, plan storage and upgrades, and lead version uplift programmes (including PASOE migrations, 12.x+) Monitoring & observability: Implement and maintain monitoring (e.g., ProTop/OpenEdge Management), alerting, and trend analysis; track latency, I/O, and replication health Security & compliance: Enforce least privilege (OpenEdge users/roles, SQL-92 permissions), encryption (at-rest/in-flight), audit trails, data masking where needed; align with GDPR and internal security standards Automation: Script routine operations (PowerShell), implement idempotent provisioning (Ansible/Terraform where applicable), and codify DBA runbooks Incident/problem management: Root cause analysis, major incident support, post-incident reviews, and resilience improvements Documentation: Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, DR playbooks, replication maps, and "How we run" service documentation Pro2 Replication (OpenEdge RDBMS Targets) Architecture & setup: Design and implement Pro2 topologies (real-time/change-trigger based or batch), ensuring schema mapping, key strategy, and target platform alignment (SQL Server/Oracle/PostgreSQL) Build & configuration: Configure Pro2 components (replication agents/services, brokers, queues), table inclusion/exclusion, transformation rules, and load initial data (seeding) Change capture: Manage trigger-based CDC, maintain trigger health and performance; monitor replication tables, queues, and latency Operations & reliability: Operate Pro2 in production - monitor lag, detect/clear bottlenecks, handle restarts, manage conflict detection/resolution and retries Performance tuning (Pro2): Optimise commit sizing, batching, parallelism, indexing on targets, and network throughput; reduce replication-induced overhead on source Schema evolution: Coordinate schema changes with Pro2 mappings, versioning, and backward compatibility; automate migration steps DR & failover: Align Pro2 with wider HA/DR strategy (e.g., AI shipping, OpenEdge Replication to warm standby, regional failover); test and document failover and backfeed processes Data quality & reconciliation: Implement data checksums, row counts, exception queues, and reconciliation jobs; work with BI/data teams to validate downstream data integrity Knowledge, Skills and Experience Essential: OpenEdge RDBMS: Proven hands-on Progress DBA experience, including proutil, rfutil, dbanalys, AI/BI management, storage areas, and index maintenance Pro2 expertise: Proven experience deploying and supporting Pro2 replication at scale (thousands+ tables, near real-time SLAs), including trigger management, agent tuning, and conflict handling Performance tuning: Deep understanding of locking, latching, buffer management, scatter/clustering, and workload profiling Backup/DR: Online backups, AI roll-forward, PITR, replication to secondaries; evidence of DR testing and RTO/RPO accountability Scripting & automation: PowerShell; familiar with CI/CD for infra-as-code and runbook automation OS & platforms: Windows Server Networking & security: TLS, certificates, firewalling, least privilege, key management, and audit requirements Tooling: ProTop or OpenEdge Management; experience integrating with Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk/ELK for logs is a plus App server awareness: PASOE/AppServer basics, session model, broker/agent settings, and connection pooling impacts on DB Stakeholder collaboration: Partnering with application teams (ABL/4GL, REST, PASOE), data/BI teams, SecOps, and SRE/Platform Compliance: Understanding of GDPR, data retention, and secure data handling in production Additional qualifications OpenEdge Replication (warm standby) administration experience SQL-92 engine tuning and JDBC/ODBC connectivity patterns Target DB depth: Tuning on Microsoft SQL Server Cloud: Running OpenEdge in IaaS; exposure to backup object storage (e.g., S3/Blob), cloud networking, and managed monitoring stacks Automation stack: GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps pipelines Languages: Progress ABL/4GL familiarity for reading code paths impacting DB; Python/Go for ops utilities Certifications: Progress OpenEdge or vendor training; cloud/platform (Azure) certifications Experience of the OpenHousing Housing Management System Job Info Job Identification 5962 Job Category IT Posting Date 05/08/2026, 07:19 AM Apply Before 06/05/2026, 10:55 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Estuary Blvd, Liverpool, L24 8RF, GB

The Riverside Group in Liverpool is looking for a Progress OpenEdge Database Administrator to manage the stability and performance of OpenEdge databases. You will ensure effective data movement for analytics while also driving compliance with security standards. Ideal candidates will have proven experience with OpenEdge and Pro2 replication, alongside strong skills in performance tuning and disaster recovery. Working conditions offer flexibility with 35 hours per week and a competitive salary.

The Riverside Group is looking for a Production Adoption Trainer to manage the implementation of Salesforce across various stakeholder teams. Your role will involve delivering training sessions, overseeing user acceptance testing, and ensuring effective management of change within a complex organization. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a proven track record in stakeholder management, change adoption, and delivering technical training. The position offers competitive pay and generous benefits.

Job Title: Production Adoption Trainer Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £35,786 Per Annum (£39,552 after 12 months successful performance) Working Hours: 35 hours per week Working Pattern: Monday-Friday (Hybrid) Location: Liverpool The difference you will make as a production adoption trainer In this role you will ensure the Salesforce platform processes and daily use by colleagues is successfully implemented and effectively managed across all stakeholders and the Salesforce Eco-system. Ideally you will be a strong communicator, providing clear training and overview of the solution. You will support the business teams with user acceptance testing and playbacks of solutions, providing a foundation to successful adoption. About you Experience of managing and delivering change and adoption for Salesforce Experience of delivering classroom and virtual training Experience of successfully managing business change within a large, complex multi-site organisation. Excellent stakeholder management with a track record of building strong working relationships and the ability to communicate at all levels across the business. Responsibilities Manage the bridge between the Salesforce Squad and business colleagues, ensuring successful implementation of product change within daily user activities. Collaborate with key stakeholders including the Project Manager, Business Managers, People Services, IT and Communications to ensure the business change is planned and delivered effectively and on time. Produce a Business Adoption Plan that aligns with the overall project plan and creates business confidence that everything is prepared and ready for adoption of the new solutions and products. Identify, plan and manage implementation activities required to ensure a smooth transition, working with key operational stakeholders to identify the required changes to processes, procedures, systems and behaviours. Act as a conduit between change, delivered products and the business, ensuring strong relationships based on trust are built, maintained and leveraged. Form a partnership with the business to provide a safe, effective and constructive feedback loop back to BT teams, ensuring a constant conduit supporting incremental improvement. Support in the design, building and testing of solutions with a view of how changes will impact the business and customers and act as the "voice of the customer" when appropriate. Design, schedule and deliver training tailored to the audience and delivered over the most appropriate channels. Identify and remove blockers to successful implementation by working closely with the Delivery Manager. Ensure effective communications are delivered to all key stakeholders related to change, including creation, publication and curation of content across the most appropriate channels. Ensure that all policy and procedural requirements of the role are adhered to. Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required. Form deep partnerships with Subject Matter Experts and call on their expertise to smooth transition. Ensure the business area fully supports project delivery by assigning appropriate resources including Subject Matter Experts. Monitor the progress of business adoption activities within the assigned project and target business area, reporting on progress including risks and issues and attending and contributing to relevant governance forums and business meetings. Monitor and manage the operational impact of changes including the impact on Business As Usual (BAU) activity, key performance indicators and the impact on performance levels, collaborating with key business stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks to delivery of business objectives. Work closely with the Business Architects and define and implement appropriate checks and measures to monitor change benefits, ensuring that new systems, processes and behaviours are embedded effectively to guarantee future success and desired business outcomes. Identify requirements for additional project implementation effort and resource required to ensure successful implementation. Review and update any key business processes and operating procedures changed or impacted by allocated cross cutting projects. Deliver agreed technical training and provide appropriate e learning through third party suppliers, ensuring the target audience understands and can fully utilise the new business processes and/or operating procedures associated with the IT and/or business changes. Support business colleagues during the User Acceptance Testing process on allocated projects. Hand over fit for purpose business processes, operating procedures and training materials to key stakeholders for repeat business as usual use following the go live of new solutions on allocated projects. Support continuous improvement through routine and bespoke analysis, including feedback from stakeholders and identification of risks, to identify opportunities for improvement. Benefits Competitive pay & generous pension 25 days holidays plus bank holidays Flexible working options available Investment in learning, personal development and technology A wide range of benefits Person specification Essential Experience of managing and delivering change and adoption for Salesforce Experience of delivering classroom and virtual training Experience of successfully managing business change within a large, complex multi site organisation. Excellent stakeholder management with a track record of building strong working relationships and the ability to communicate at all levels across the business. Strong planning and organisational skills, ideally with previous experience working in a project environment. Awareness of project management methodologies. Understanding of risk management principles. Customer focused with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work at all levels within the business. Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work accurately under pressure, deliver to strict deadlines and manage conflicting priorities. Commercially aware with a focus on continuous improvement. Results focused with the ability to take ownership of tasks. Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements. Desirable Salesforce certifications or Trailhead awards.