Location: Head Office
We are looking for a Database Administrator skilled in end-to-end database design and management, a proactive and resilient problem solver who thrives on challenges. Join Kingdom Bank if you value excellence, teamwork and customer impact.
The role oversees database and supporting infrastructure performance, sets optimal benchmarks using modern tools and best practices, ensures high system availability, security, and business continuity and drives improvements to support growth and product competitiveness.
Responsibilities
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users ensuring performance of production databases.
- Monitoring including systems logs, events and event correlation and maintaining performance statistics and setting baseline statistics.
- Monitoring and managing the high availability components including storage and the underlying infrastructure for mission critical databases.
- Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans and ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning properly.
- Take lead role in the various I.T. audits in providing necessary information and enforcing closure of audit, change management and compliance issues.
- Manage key IT risks for all database systems and ensure proper mitigation.
- Take lead role in BCP and disaster recovery preparedness through periodic testing as scheduled and update of disaster recovery procedures and sharing the results with management.
- Team up with applications support, development and infrastructure team in the development, implementation, management applications, infrastructure, and monitor system health in order to proactively identify weaknesses and address them.
- Perform database tasks such as schema design, capacity planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities.
- Considering both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users and further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements.
- Installing database management systems (RDBMS) using best practice; ensure compliance with RDBMS license agreements and maintain upgrades and critical patches
- Database setup, configuration and administration of MSSQL, PostgreSQL.
- Creating and maintaining database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata) and maintain all technical documentation relating to database management.
- Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security.
- Perform under limited supervision, maintain reliability of data and databases, and assist in developing and implementing standards for database maintenance and configuration.
- Setting up and testing new database and data handling system
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent.
- 2 – 3 years in database technology with experience deploying database and data warehousing technologies (e.g. High in production environments.
- Oracle MSSQL and PostgreSQL with strong SQL and PLSQL skills including data warehouse objects.
- Skills in Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, OLAP, and Data mining Familiarity as well with ICT standards such as ITIL, COBIT.
- Proficiency in various operating systems like Linux & windows.
- Thorough knowledge on data profiling, data modeling and data validation and associated tools; Skills in Database Sizing, Storage. Performance, and Security Considerations.
- Strong analytical skills: ability to analyze and correlate complex data and excellent knowledge on the Oracle Technology stack as well as excellent knowledge of ICT system architectures, platforms and Infrastructure.