Data Base Administrator Finance Trust Bank

Finance Trust Bank was licensed as a Tier 1 Commercial Bank on 11 November 2013, taking over the financial services business of Uganda Finance Trust Limited (MDI). Today Finance Trust Bank is a fully-fledged commercial bank serving a clientele of over 500,000 depositors and over 37,000 borrowers, through a network of 35 branches countrywide. The bank offers a variety of Products and services including; Savings, Current accounts, Loans, Money transfer services and Bills payments to its target market which comprises of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, salary earners and youth.
In order to meet the needs of its growing customer base, the company is seeking to recruit dynamic, self-motivated, result oriented professionals to fill the following position;

1. Data Base Administrator
This position reports directly to the Manager Core Banking System and Business Applications and will be based at Head Office.

Role of the Job:
To develop, support and maintain performance of all corporate databases; work with the developers and users of the databases and database applications to assist, manage and tailor the databases to meet corporate needs and requirements; plan and direct the development and implementation of database changes when required and to ensure optimum performance from the database sub-systems and related applications.

Key Result Areas:

1. Writing database documentation, including; data standards, procedures, policies, definitions for the data dictionary, capacity planning, maintenance, security, archiving and recovery.
2. To monitor and tune database performance as well as control user access, security and log management
3. To ensure corporate performance monitoring of all database resources and recommending appropriate action in case of performance Bottlenecks thus keeping flow of work uninterrupted.
4. To perform database scripts reviews both from internal and external developers to confirm correctness to both user and business function needs before deployment to both test and production environments.
5. Maintain database security by ensuring security plans and measures are laid out and followed i.e. testing and rolling out of database patches to the database systems in order to fix published and non-published vulnerabilities.
6. To ensure functionality of databases and adherence of procedures by all users.
7. To plan for all database systems, capacity management requirements
8. To analyze business application requirements and develop specifications for databases construction and maintenance.
9. Maintain business continuity preparedness for enterprise databases by implementing disaster recovery procedures by; Carrying out database restorations, disaster recovery tests and database availability management in addition to developing, managing, testing back-up and recovery plans, and ensure data archival.
10. Planning, sizing installation and configuration of enterprise database management systems on new server installations
11. Assist the Business Applications Administrator in creating and maintaining efficient business reporting systems
12. Ensure backups of all the Corporate databases are done as per the Backup Policy and logs are maintained, and that the integrity of the backups is maintained through periodic backups testing.
13. To communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security plus issues escalation to external support groups where necessary
14. Run End of Day operations.
15. Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably assigned by supervisors

Minimum educational and technical competence requirements:

• A University degree in computer science information, systems information technology or engineering from a reputable institution;
• Certifications in Microsoft certified database administrator (MSCDBA) or Oracle database, Microsoft SQL, etc.
• At least two years working experience preferably with a financial institution in the area of database administration and data center management
• Good working knowledge of banking systems, operations, and processes;
• Knowledge of Microsoft Server Operating Systems, and UNIX.
• Knowledge of SQL and database management Systems is a must
• Experience working with RDBMS’ e.g. MySQL, Oracle, MS MSSQLServer, Postgre, etc.
• Knowledge of shell scripting and other scripting languages like Perl, Python, PHP etc.
• Good analytical, diagnostic, communication and reporting skills.
• Analytical & problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills
• Good People management skills and ability to monitor third party contractors
• Ability to work independently at any Group location in an IT support capacity;
• Ability to quickly assess organizational needs relative to databases and datacenter problems
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, pro-activeness, selfdrive, initiative
• Person of integrity.
• Flexibility and willingness to work long hours including evenings and weekends as needed to troubleshoot issues, perform upgrades and to be part of an oncall support team