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)
Database
Planning (40%)
- Design, and implement organisational 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
Job
Specifications
Academic:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology
or related field
- ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, Postgres CE, 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 Oracle, PostgreSQL and Microsoft
SQL server databases and storage support on medium to large organizations.
- Working experience in a bank or other financial services
organization would be added advantage.
Job
Competencies
Technical
Competencies
- Organization development to effectively plan databases, server
hardware, Linux & UNIX operating systems, and Windows operating
systems support for optimal performance.
- Knowledge and experience in modern practices for databases,
server hardware, Linux and UNIX operating systems, and Windows operating
systems architecture and operations in medium to large banks to provide
guidance on quality improvements and strategic changes
- Technical skills to effectively perform or guide performance
of databases, server hardware, Linux and UNIX operating systems, and
Windows operating systems design and operations activities/tasks in a
manner that consistently produce high quality of service.
- Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking
policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to consistently achieve
required compliance standards or benchmarks.
Behavioural
Competencies
- Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to
breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
- Relate easily and naturally with executives, business
managers, technical teams and customers. Has excellent listening skills
and understands the desires and challenges of all our leaders and
customers.
- Leadership Skills: Team Building and ability to train, develop
and mentor staff; Presents new challenges and opportunities to the team to
enable them to demonstrate and achieve their full potential; encourages
and inspires team learning
- Negotiation Skills: Must be a good negotiator, particularly in
changing behavior and work practices but always Win/Win
- Innovative – Creative and adaptive to change. A team player
who is supportive of other’s ideas and innovations, collaborates in a
culture of knowledge-sharing and team learning to strengthen the
organization’s work
- Reliable: Ability to take responsibility and exercise it well.
A flexible and “hands on” approach
- Clearly communicate and share the planned cyber initiatives,
reports, and risks with executives, business leaders, and stakeholders
across the organization – in a manner that leaves them all touched, moved
and inspired.
- Demonstrate a keen understanding of basic business operations
and the organizational levers that drive profitable growth; Understands
the operating environment, the customers, competition and how their
strategies and tactics work in the marketplace; applies knowledge to
develop and execute strategies and tactics to drive business results.
How
To Apply
