Database Administrator IT Job Careers – Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI) (Pride)
Job Title: Database Administrator
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 Administrator will plan and develop a database ensuring the performance, integrity and security of all institution’s application databases.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, design, develop/customise and install enterprise databases in order to make them fit for purpose.
- Maintain database integrity by ensuring database parameters, objects and access are standardised and managed.
- Maintain database security by ensuring security plans and measures are laid out and followed.
- Monitor database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters.
- Maintain business continuity preparedness for enterprise databases by implementing disaster recovery procedures.
- Perform system database integrations to introduce new innovative business channels by ensuring an end to end integration with third party systems.
- Introduce new technology tools and applications that enable accommodation of changing business requirements.
- Planning, sizing installation and configuration of enterprise database management systems on new server installations during primary disaster recovery and staging environment setups.
- Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary and capacity planning.
- Budget for new installations, licensing.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Pride Database Administrator job placement should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, or any related field.
- Certifications in Microsoft certified database administrator (MSCDBA) or Oracle database, Microsoft SQL.
- A minimum of three years of working experience in a busy ICT Environment preferably within a banking institution.
- Age Limit: 35 Years
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to apply online by following the procedure;
- Click Here
- 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: 9th November 2019