NCBA Group Senior Manager Database Jobs in Kenya

About the Company

The new NCBA has harnessed the power of both NIC and CBA to create a bank that brings together the best of both worlds — from cutting edge mobile banking to good old-fashioned relationship management; from scalable business banking to financial services that grow as your business does; from best-in-class choice of products to investment solutions tailored to your specific needs.

Job Purpose Statement

The Senior Manager, Databases Administration role is to support the bank’s databases and database infrastructure. This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas; particularly NCBA group databases, database storage, database server operating systems and database backups in collaboration with external vendors, system experts and consultants.

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

Professional:

• ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, other relevant database professional qualifications in IT field would be an added advantage

• MS SQL Certification will also be an added advantage

• Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP

Desired work experience:

• Seven years’ experience in databases and storage support on medium to large organizations.

• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added advantage.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Database Maintenance and Optimization 30%

• Enhancing the scalability and performance of existing database architecture including maintenance and development of all databases.

• Performing database maintenance, migration, and upgrading hardware and software.

Database Development and Management 20%

• Developing database structures and features according to NCBA needs.

• Developing procedures to ensure data integrity and quality

• Manage Databases Recovery Service Agreements to ensure projects, incidents, problems and escalations are dealt with according to defined set of policies, processes, procedures and SLA's.

• Documenting processes and complying with best practices in database management.

Database Integration 10%

• Effectiveness of integration of database strategy / blueprint with the bank's business direction

Database Security 10%

• Effectiveness of the databases security (policy, controls and infrastructure) with regard to protection against exposure to and impact of risks associated with data loss, corruption and/or unauthorized access

Project Management 10%

• Plans, Designs and implements Database projects in accordance with Bank’s requirements and Monitor Capacity/Performance of the group databases to ensure optimum efficiency

Business Continuity 10%

• Disaster readiness is maintained as agreed and ensures regular DR exercise is done 10% Support of ICT

Strategy 10%

• Effectiveness of integration of ICT databases blueprint with the bank's business direction necessary (On-Prem, Hybrid and Cloud instances)

Required Skills

Relational databases (SQL), System administration, Database administration, Database query languages (SQL, others), IT equipment installation and configuration, ITIL, IT support.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; NCBA Group Senior Manager Database Jobs in Kenya

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