Fresher Database Officer Job Opportunities – Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI)
Organization: Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI) (Pride)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI) (Pride) is the leading Microfinance Deposit Taking Institution in Uganda with 34 networked branches and eight contact offices countrywide, an equal opportunity employer, regulated by Bank of Uganda under the MDI Act, 2003.
Job Summary: The Database Officer will ensure efficient and effective data management system.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitor performance and control access permissions and privileges.
- Configure and maintain database management system.
- Review database service accounts and services, new database objects.
- Perform database backup and trouble shoot database logging issues.
Implement data security, storage, archiving and backup recovery.
- Monitor database, file system and space usage.
- Understand data encryption methods and coordinate encryption in compliance with the institution and data exchange partners.
- Conduct backup of user and system databases and review database user logs.
- Perform data recovery in the event of disk crashes.
Participate in writing, developing or modifying databases.
- Participate in database systems and ancillary systems procurement.
- Design business systems/databases, considering “back end” data organization, “front end” accessibility and user needs.
- Analyse service teams’ business needs and identify opportunities to improve and develop corporate systems/databases.
Administer, test and implement new or modified systems/databases.
- Perform database installations and follow set database initialization as per documented standards.
- Monitor database growth, keep up to date, analyze, test, document and implement patches and upgrades.
- Perform access matrix standardization and database object and parameter tuning.
Monitor performance and control access permissions and privileges.
- Perform log review and archival tasks, database fragmentation analysis and database objects cataloging and load/performance analysis on new objects.
Document and monitor operational, security and maintenance procedures.
- Document database object and parameter changes..
- Maintain database statistics.
Support the data collection process.
- Ensure proper data collection, cleansing, transfer and loading of company data into Data Alliance Data Share system.
- Extract data sets and build standardized summary feedback from Data Alliance Data Share system according to research criteria.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Robust database and data collection system in place.
- Optimum database and system space usage.
- Secure and well controlled data access to authorised persons.
- Up to date periodic reports on operational, security and procedures.
- Efficient and effective data security, storage and archiving.
- Backup recovery systems that function well at all times.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Pride Database Officer job placement should preferably hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems/Technology, Computer Science, or any other related field.
- At least two years of experience in a similar position, preferably a banking industry..
- Cognitive ability.
- Innovative and Analytical.
- Excellent communication skills.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to apply online by following the procedure;
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- Create an Account
- Fill in your personal information and upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), including all your scanned academic credentials, 3 letters of recommendation from each of the referees and a passport photo.
- Submit online i.e. no hardcopy deliveries will be accepted
Deadline: 21st June 2019
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