Vacancy title:
Database Administrator

Jobs at:
KCB Bank

Deadline of this Job:
27th July 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
Reporting to the Banking Systems Operations Manager, the role holder will be required to ensure the health and optimization of all oracle data based applications.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage and support high performance, highly available and mission critical database platforms for the Core Banking and other systems.
• Review and design database structures to support business requirements including logical and physical database modeling.
• Install, configure and maintain database instances, creates various database objects, create users with appropriate roles and levels of security.
• Implement database security policies that are consistent with laid security guidelines.
• Implement and perform database backup and recovery strategies that meet recovery and availability requirements.
• Implement best practices and incorporate them in DBA procedures.
• Manage and support Enterprise Data warehouse including the development of reports from the data warehouse platform.
• Determine appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization.
• Performs complex analyses and reviews applications being released into production.
• Develops and oversees the implementation of test application code in client server environments to ensure that software conforms to build management practices.
• Remain abreast of and analyzes new and emerging technologies and tools for applicability to the field.
• Work with the development, testing, and support teams to provide design guidelines and impact analysis
• Contribute to the weekly on-call rotation and maintenance task.
• Effectively collaborate with other Operations and Support team to resolve performance and design issues
Minimum Requirements:
For the above position, the applicant should have;
• University Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Must possess Oracle OCP certification
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Unix
• A team player with Effective leadership skills
• A minimum of 3 years’ hands on experience in Oracle administration
• A minimum of 3 years’ hands on experience in data warehousing, data mining, business intelligence and Unix platforms HP/Solaris/IBM AIX
• Knowledge of administration in T24 core banking systems, Web sphere & MQ series
Job application procedure
If you believe you meet the above requirements, please submit your application including an application letter, a detailed Curriculum Vitae indicating your current salary and benefits, copies of the relevant certificates and testimonials, 3 reference letters, daytime telephone contact and email address. The deadline for receiving applications is 27th July 2018. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please apply through:
Head of Human Resources
KCB Bank Rwanda Ltd.
Kigali – Rwanda or E-mail on: recruitment@rw.kcbbankgroup.com