Database Administrator IT Jobs – Finance Trust Bank (FTB)
Job Title: Database Administrator
Organization: Finance Trust Bank (FTB)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Manager Core-Banking and Business Applications
About US:
Finance Trust Bank is licensed as a Tier 1 Commercial Bank after taking over the financial services business of Uganda Finance Trust Limited (MDI). Finance Trust Bank is a fully-fledged commercial bank serving a clientele of over 400,000 depositors and over 23,000’ borrowers, through a network of 36 branches countrywide. The bank offers a variety of Products and services including; Savings, Current accounts, Loans, Money transfer services and Bills payments to its target market which comprises of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, salary earners and youth.
Job Summary: The Database Administrator will develop, support and maintain performance of all corporate databases; work with the developers and users of the databases and database applications to assist, manage and tailor the databases to meet corporate needs and requirements; plan and direct the development and implementation of database changes when required and to ensure optimum performance from the database sub-systems and related applications.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- To develop architecture, policies and procedures for database operations, maintenance, security, archiving and recovery.
- To monitor and tune database performance as well as control user access and security.
- To ensure corporate performance monitoring and recommending appropriate action in case of performance Bottlenecks.
- To perform database scripts reviews both from internal and external developers to confirm correctness to both user and business function needs before deployment to both test and production environments.
- Plan and execute patches to the database systems in order to fix published and non-published vulnerabilities.
- To ensure functionality of databases and adherence of procedures by all users.
- To plan for all database systems, storage/capacity requirements.
- To analyze business application requirements and develop specifications for databases construction and maintenance.
- To oversee database backups, clustering, mirroring, replication and failover.
- To create and maintain reporting systems using products such as crystal reports.
- To communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security plus issues escalation to external support groups where necessary.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Finance Trust Bank (FTB) Database Administrator job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information System or other related numerical fields.
- A Certification in any Enterprise Database System such as Oracle or MSSQL server is a must have.
- Possession of an ITIL certification is an added advantage.
- At least three years’ experience in conducting general Oracle database administration tasks such as database implementations, backups, and account maintenance.
- At least two years of administering database platform specific advanced features (e.g. clustering, encryption, logical/physical standby, ETL, replication)
- Keen attention to details.
- Good team player with ability to work long hours with minimal supervision.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should address their applications to Head, Human Resource, Finance Trust Bank, Plot 115 & 121, Katwe. P.O. Box 6972, Kampala, Uganda, and email it to jobs@financetrust.co.ug as well as photocopies of academic testimonials, a CV with at least three reference contacts, including the most recent employer, and telephone number.
Deadline: 14th May 2018
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