Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI) (Pride) is the leading Microfinance Deposit Taking Institution in Uganda with 33 networked branches and 11 contact offices countrywide; regulated by Bank of Uganda under the MDI Act, 2003. Pride is an equal opportunity employer looking for competent and experienced individuals to fill the Accountant’s position at our Head Office.

2. Data Base Administrator.
• 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.
• At least three years working experience in a busy ICT Environment preferably within a banking institution.