SQL Developer - 12m Maternity Cover

About Reward

Founded in 2001, Reward is an industry leader transforming the world of customer engagement and commerce media. Operating in 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia, Reward’s cloud-based API platform integrates content, advertising, and commerce to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers resulting in increased customer engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction.

Reward’s Loyalty-tech platform is behind many award-winning bank loyalty programmes seen today from brands such as Visa, NatWest Group, Barclays, and First Abu Dhabi Bank to name a few. Reward also works with the world’s largest retailers such as McDonald’s, eBay, Deliveroo and Amazon.

Our leading commerce media platform fuses purchase insights with loyalty-tech, offering an unparalleled edge in digital advertising and performance marketing for retailers. Leveraging rich data and insights, the Reward platform provides a comprehensive view of consumer behaviour, empowering retailers to target marketing messages more effectively, resulting in independently verified sales uplift and long-term customer lifetime value.

Beyond bridging the gap between content and commerce, Reward is a purpose driven business. Our mission is to make everyday spending more rewarding. During the last 5 years, Reward has proudly given back more than $1billion in cashback rewards to consumers world-wide.

Most recently, Reward’s rapid growth was recognised in The Independent’s E2E Tech 100 list of the fastest-growing tech scale-ups in the UK. Reward, in conjunction with partners NatWest Group, were awarded the Industry Achievement Award 2023 at the prestigious Card and Payments Awards. In 2026, Reward was also recognised as a Great Place to Work UK, ranking #41, and was named on Great Place to Work UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ List, placing #37 in our first year of entry.

Role Summary

Data is at the heart of Reward’s business, and the SQL Developer is a key ingredient in delivery Reward’s commitments to its clients.

As a SQL Developer in the Consumer Insights team you will contribute to the delivery an excellent service to our clients by assisting in the maintenance and development of our data management backend systems and client-facing web portals.

This role is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract as a Maternity Cover.

• In depth knowledge of SQL, implementing stored procedures, triggers, views and functions
• Understanding of database design and development
• Knowledge of database performance troubleshooting and optimisation strategies
• Experience of supporting bespoke web applications
• Expert knowledge of MS Office suite with emphasis on Excel
• Minimum 2+ years SQL experience
• Experience in cloud solutions is desirable
• Working knowledge of MS Power BI is desirable

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in numerate discipline

Competencies

• Attention to Detail: Ability to complete tasks end to end accurately and consistently
• Business Acumen: Strong understanding of the data at hand, what it means in the real world and identify potential data quality issues using this understanding
• Time Management: Ability to manage own time to ensure on-time delivery
• Problem-Solving: Analytical thinker with a track record of delivering data solutions.

• Processing data using SQL/SSMS (cleaning, modifying, aggregating etc.)
• Data receipt and import processes
• Development and execution of automation scripts to create usable insight data products for internal stakeholders and external clients
• Processing and validation of data in MS Excel
• User and client support
• Quality checking work which goes out to clients and internal stakeholders
• Ensuring compliance to ISO27001
• Updating documentation as required

• Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
• Company holiday: 3 additional days off between Christmas & New Years
• Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)
• Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
• Pension: Hargreaves Lansdown up to 6% matched contribution
• Generous family friendly cover
• Private healthcare - Bupa
• Income protection
• Critical illness cover
• Life insurance cover
• Dental cover
• Optical cover
• Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
• Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
• Employee referral scheme
• Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
• Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)
• Team socials