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Database Management (Team Lead & Member) in a Bank in Nigeria, July 2013

Phillips Consulting - Our client is one of the first banks to have been established in Nigeria and has a wide network of branches
An exciting opportunity exists for a team in the Data Centre & Power unit, to support the Team Lead, Infrastructure in meeting the team’s strategic goals and objectives.
Job Title: Database Management (Team Lead & Member)

Responsibilities:

Administer the database of core banking and ancillary business solutions.
Configure oracle on branch servers during the installation process and on other servers as required especially.
Help recover customer’s details from the old organisation banking application database and capital bank database.
Effectiveness of staff at managing and ensuring availability of database test areas
Documentation of all database incidents
Responsiveness to user requests for creation of reports etc
Backup information of the business applications and maintain a log for review
Update Configuration of database to ensure up to date information
Perform other duties as assigned by the Head, Database Administration & Other Applications
Perform Database Capacity Management by generating daily database growth report for Management and Planning for future storage requirements for the databases
Creating physical database storage structures for off the shelf applications
Creating database structure in conformity with the request of the developer for the In house developed applications
Maintain database integrity and availability at all time
Proactively Ensure Database Availability by verifying that all database instances are up and running while looking out for any error log in database Alert log Files
Monitor and optimize the performance of databases
Day to day database management by adjusting next extent size of rapidly growing tables and indexes, etc.
Administer database management software and related utilities

Requirements:

Team Lead

Good technology related university degree preferably in Computer Science/Electrical Electronics Engineering or Numeric Science;
Minimum of 7 years cognate IT experience in a bank/ financial institution.
Oracle Certification is compulsory.
Professional certifications in Microsoft will be added advantage

Team Member

Good technology related university degree preferably in Computer Science/Electrical Electronics Engineering or Numeric Science;
Minimum of 4 years cognate IT experience in a bank/ financial institution.
Professional certifications in Microsoft will be added advantage
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Adequate knowledge of Oracle, SQL server databases
Adequate knowledge of System Support functions
Adequate knowledge of incident management

Supervisory skills