Latest Vacancies at AppZone, September 2018

AppZone is Africa's leading provider of Integrated Banking and Payment software platforms and incidentally creator of BankOne; the world's leading cloud infrastructure for Banking and Payment processing targeted at Small and Medium financial Institutions. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Database Administrator Location: Lagos Job Descriptions

• Communicate regularly with the development team, business and operations team to ensure the security and confidentiality of data
• Resolve production database issues and implement improvements to prevent a recurrence of the issue
• Backup and restore databases as necessary
• Design and develop architecture for data warehouse including source data ETL (extract transform and load) strategy, data movement and aggregation as well as data quality strategy.
• Microsoft SQL Server administration and maintenance functions of production and QA databases in a 24/7 mission-critical environment
• Participate in database server architecture and design as well as server environment recommendations for the overall infrastructure solution including storage capacity planning
• Responsible for database alerts, maintenance plans and scripts to acquire, store, and transform data for the company’s data warehouse and its various users
• Manage database security and control access permissions and privileges
• Maintain the health, performance and integrity of the database systems
• Responsible for availability, reliability and integrity of business data stored in production databases

• Minimum of BSc/HND in computer science, computer engineering or any other related field.
• Minimum of 4years relevant work experience
• Strong experience on SQL Server maintenance, Advanced SQL Server concepts like indexes, stored procedures e.t.c with an emphasis on database efficiency.
• You must be performance driven with a proven track record
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and analytic skills

• Participate in the data gathering, documentation, analysis, implementation, and testing of business processes, systems, and solution requirements.
• Provide support for parts of the business development cycle including proposal preparation, feasibility studies, and solution presentation.
• Perform feasibility analysis, scope projects, and work with the project management team to prioritizes deliverables, as well as negotiate timelines and product functionalities.
• Perform research to discover technologies, practices, components, and regulations that form input to solutions.
• Produce visualizations, user interface mock-ups and configuration elements of solution design.
• Document functional and non-functional requirements using best practices and tools.
• Partner with development and other functional teams to provide effective reporting on software projects.
• Participate in Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functionality Testing, User Training, and Stakeholder Reviews.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or any other related field.
• Project management professional certification will be an added advantage.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of programming in any language
• Must have expert knowledge of the software development life cycle.
• 3+ years of business analysis and project management experience
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Aptitude for analytical problem-solving
• Ability to pay attention to details
• Ease and ability to learn fast and solve complex problems