Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 02 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose Statement
The Databases Administrator role is to design, plan, implement and support the databases in the organisation, and the related infrastructure. The Database administrator should be expert in operating databases in different platforms especially different operating systems, Cloud implementations, Storage platforms, core database platforms. The role should design databases for the required performance, capacity management considerations, and should be capable to align the performance database requirements with the costs in implementing and supporting the platforms.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)
Perspective
Weighting (to add up to 100%)
Output
Database Planning 40% Design, and implement organizational database systems to achieve performance and availability targets.
Develop and implement Capacity management procedures to keep databases within capacity management thresholds
Database Management 30%
Manage Databases availability, Service Recovery, to ensure projects, incidents; problems are addressed according to defined set of policies, processes, procedures and SLA's.
Database Integration 10%
Effectiveness of integration of database strategy / blueprint
with the bank's business direction
Database Security 10%
Effectiveness of the databases security (policy, controls and infrastructure) with regard to protection against exposure to and impact of risks associated with data loss, corruption and/or unauthorized access
Database Setup 10%
Plans, Designs and implements Database projects in accordance with Bank’s requirements and Monitor Capacity/Performance of the group databases to ensure optimum efficiency

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

Professional:
• ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, other relevant professional qualifications in IT field would be an added advantage
• Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP

Desired work experience:
• Three years’ experience in databases and storage support on medium to large organizations.
• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added advantage

Job Dimensions
Reporting Relationships: jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly
Direct Reports None
Indirect
Reports None
Stakeholder Management: key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work
with to be successful in this role.
Internal
IT Department
External
Decision Making Authority /Mandates/Constraints: the decisions the position holder is empowered to make (Indicate if it is Operational, Managerial or Strategic). Please also highlight any budgetary control responsibility if applicable for the role.
• Structure of the databases and database infrastructure within approved guidelines
• Databases design, reviews and improvement proposals
Work cycle and impact: time horizon and nature of impact (Planning) (e.g. Less than 1 week, 2 weeks, 2 weeks – 1 month, 1month – 3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, above 1 year) 3-6 months

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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