Team Lead, SAF Database Administration at Sterling Bank

Job Summary

• To oversee all enterprise databases and middleware of servers towards high service level agreed with customers and the business by ensuring high availability and reliability of these databases.

Job Description

• Manage the bank’s application databases, develop and ensure that data storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning as required at optimum levels.
• Ensure database integrity and security at all times.
• Manage and maintain user accounts, objects, access permission and privileges.
• Perform database administration.
• Assesse user needs and conduct periodic database capacity planning.
• Monitor and optimize/tunes the performance of the bank’s databases.
• Generate periodic database performance and availability reports.
• Manipulate data within databases to increase manageability and data retrieval.
• Analyze database efficiency and offer suggestions for improvement.
• Monitor database availability, stability, and integrity using activity logs and other tools.
• Oversee and execute data security measures to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.
• Manipulate database to provide required Management Information.
• Develop cross platform knowledge to manage databases across a number of vendors.
• Accurately estimate and manage storage requirements, security, auditing, backup, and recovery.
• Provide database solution support for primary and secondary production problems.
• Database Alert monitoring.

Job Experience

• Minimum of 6 years post qualification experience of which at least 4 must have been in the Financial Services Sector and 1 year in a supervisory position.