FINCA International, one of the world’s leading microfinance institutions, provides financial services to more than 950,000 clients through 21 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Greater Middle East. FINCA International is looking for a Database Administrator. This role will involve responsibility on the environmental aspect of database management systems. These include recoverability (creating and testing backups), verifying data integrity, defining and/or implementing access controls to the data, ensuring maximum uptime of database, ensuring maximum database performance given budgetary constraints, developing and testing support.
Essential duties:
· Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications.
· Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
· Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
· Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
· Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
· Train users and answer questions.
· Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
· Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems such as the installation of new databases.
· Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.
· Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
· Review procedures in database management system manuals for making changes to database.
· Develop methods for integrating different products so they work properly together such as customizing commercial databases to fit specific needs.
· Develop data model describing data elements and how they are used, following procedures and using pen, template or computer software.
· Select and enter codes to monitor database performance and to create production database.
· Establish and calculate optimum values for database parameters, using manuals and calculator.
· Revise company definition of data as defined in data dictionary.
· Review workflow charts developed by programmer analyst to understand tasks computer will perform, such as updating records.
· Identify and evaluate industry trends in database systems to serve as a source of information and advice for upper management.
Knowledge and Skills:
· 3+ years of experience within a technical support environment, including hardware, software and network support Experience using relational databases;
· DBA certification is desirable.
· Proven ability to resolve problems efficiently and effectively;
· Experience programming in a database query language;
· Previous experience as a database administrator.
ability to recognize competence level of the user and address each situation appropriately
ability to recognize competence level of the user and address each situation appropriately
· Experience working in a heavy pressure environment preferred
· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
· Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
· Proven ability to balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks
· Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
· Fluency required in English
Qualifications: Basic degree in computer science or equivalent, experience of not less than 3 years in a senior information systems position in a reputable financial services organization or related institution.
Language Skills
· Fluency in English required.
How to Apply:
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