Requirements

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree and professional qualifications are added advantages.
• Proven experience as a Database Administrator with a minimum of 6 years’ experience.
• Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications.
• Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and SQL.
• Familiarity with database design, documentation, and coding.
• Experience with programming languages API will be an added advantage.
• Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques.
• Proven project management experience.
• Hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.

Duties /  Responsibilities

• Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for database development in conjunction with end users, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Analyze user requirements and, based on findings, design functional specifications for client/server databases and database applications.
• Plan and implement capacity and resource expansion to ensure scalability of company databases.
• Assist with the design of redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery to ensure. effective availability, protection, and integrity of data assets.
• Design and deploy data table structures, forms, reports, and queries.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Coordinate and work with other technical staff to develop relational databases and secondary databases (i.e. Access).
• Develop automated database applications, where necessary, using the applicable database packages.
• Identify data entry, retrieval, change, and delete issues, and work to ensure a high level of data availability.
• Work with project managers to ensure that data entry, retrieval, change and delete functions meet business requirements for project completion.
• Identify inefficiencies in current databases and leverage solutions.
• Install and configure relevant components to ensure database access.
• Diagnose and resolve database access and performance issues.
• Perform cost estimates for data migration to new databases during upgrades, and plan and coordinate these migrations.
• Evaluate and select database components, including hardware, relational database management systems, ETL software, metadata management tools, and database design solutions.
• Mentor and/or provide leadership to junior members of the team.