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:

• 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

• 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

• Working knowledge of client server architecture environment
• Ability to coordinate projects successfully 
• Organization and coordination skills

• Possess analytical and problem solving skills
• Adequate knowledge of Contract management
• Adequate knowledge of package implementation, support and maintenance.