Reporting the Manager Business Systems, the Database Administrator is responsible for planning and developing a database
ensuring the performance, integrity and security of all institution’s application databases.

Key duties and Responsibilities:
• Plan, design, develop/customize and install enterprise databases in order to make them fit for purpose.
• Maintain database integrity by ensuring database parameters, objects and access are standardized and managed.
• Maintain database security by ensuring security plans and measures are laid out and followed.
• Monitor database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters.
• Maintain business continuity preparedness for enterprise databases by implementing disaster recovery procedures.
• Perform system database integrations to introduce new innovative business channels by ensuring an end to end integration with third party systems.
• Introduce new technology tools and applications that enable accommodation of changing business requirements.
• Planning, sizing installation and configuration of enterprise database management systems on new server installations
• during primary disaster Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary and capacity planning.
• Budget for new installations, licensing.

Minimum Academic Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, or any related field.
• Certifications in Microsoft certified database administrator (MSCDBA) or Oracle database, Microsoft SQL are a MUST.
• At least three years working experience in a busy ICT Environment preferably within a banking institution.