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Job Title Oracle Database Administrator

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Manager, Applications & Interfaces ¿ ICT Department, the job holder

Shall develop interface applications for T24 and extend /customize the Bank¿s Temenos T24 System.
Data base Administrator Key Duties Responsibilities

Perform enterprise database server administration for 24/7 data availability of key systems.

Participate in the selection, installation, qualification, testing, and validation of enterprise database systems and applications.

Work closely with internal and external developers to develop and maintain custom and third-party database applications.

Responsible for documenting all database installations and configurations.

Design and develop databases, database users and database security and other database objects including stored procedures.

Maintain version control of custom database objects and assist with the creation of entity relationship and modeling diagrams for new custom databases.

Create and maintain jobs/scripts with automated scheduling and alerts, configuration and monitoring for all current and future databases.

Responsible for monitoring the status of scheduled backups and database jobs.

Responsible for database security and the analysis and application of database patches and upgrades to database servers and components.

Optimize and perform tuning for all current and future databases and assisting the application team with application performance tuning.

Work with the Information Security Office to ensure compliance.

Participate in audits by maintaining the necessary logs and providing reports or extracts to the qualified resources as requested for the audits.

Perform imports, exports and data conversion from one system to another as needed.

Develop, implement and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for database administration including backup, restoration, administration, and disaster recovery.

Participate in designing, setting up, implementing and testing business continuity and disaster recovery installations within the Bank.

Perform capacity planning that requires creating and maintaining the databases while working closely with system administrators.

Evaluate releases of Oracle and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the company is running products that are most appropriate while working with the application developers and System Administrators to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact.

Enforce and maintain database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.

Administer all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures.

Participate in impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.

Troubleshoot problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.

Create new database users as required and manage sharing of resources amongst applications.
Data Base Admin Job Requirements

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies

Degree in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)

Oracle DBA Certification.

At least 2 years UNIX experience

At least 2 years of Oracle database administration in a UNIX environment.

Experience with database administration in high availability environments.

UNIX System Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an added advantage

Ability to work in large multi-disciplinary teams.

Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities;

Proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment, in a high pressure on-call environment with changing priorities.

A team player, possessing excellent communication, presentation, analytical, planning, organizational and interpersonal skills

Should be open-minded and a change champion

Mature person with proven integrity, initiative and drive

Ability to think strategically with creative problem solving skills

How To Apply
If you can clearly demonstrate the ability to meet the above criteria, please submit your online application along with detailed CV HERE stating your current position, remuneration level, e-mail address and telephone contacts to reach us on or before 27th February, 2015

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