Job Title: Senior Database Management Officer
Organization: National
Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO)
Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO)
Duty Station: Entebbe,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Director
General, Agricultural Technology Promotion
General, Agricultural Technology Promotion
About NARO:
The National Agricultural Research Organisation is established by the
National Agricultural Research Act 2005 as a body corporate with the mandate to
provide strategic direction for publically funded agricultural research in
Uganda. The organisation is composed of the Council as its governing body,
Committees of Council, a Secretariat for its day-to-day operations with
semi-autonomous Public Agricultural Research Institutes (PARI’s) under its
policy guidance.
National Agricultural Research Act 2005 as a body corporate with the mandate to
provide strategic direction for publically funded agricultural research in
Uganda. The organisation is composed of the Council as its governing body,
Committees of Council, a Secretariat for its day-to-day operations with
semi-autonomous Public Agricultural Research Institutes (PARI’s) under its
policy guidance.
Job Summary: The
Senior Database Management Officer will be tasked with collecting,
organizing, storing and enabling users’ access to the organization’s
information through designing, developing, implementing and maintaining
organizational database systems.
Senior Database Management Officer will be tasked with collecting,
organizing, storing and enabling users’ access to the organization’s
information through designing, developing, implementing and maintaining
organizational database systems.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Create
and maintain all organizational databases to enable it deliver on its
mission. - The jobholder will install new versions of the
relational database management system and its tools and any other tools
that access the database. - Plan
and implement security, backup and recovery of the database. - Enforce
and maintain database constraints to ensure integrity of the database. - The
incumbent will identify and manage migrations of programs, database
changes, reference data changes and menu changes through the
development life cycle - Administer
all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views,
sequences, packages and procedures. - Troubleshoots
with problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools. - Carry
out the technical analysis, design and documentation required for new
changes and projects. - Investigate,
analyse and make recommendations to management regarding technology
improvements, upgrades and modifications. - Support
the development and update of reference materials such as operating
instructions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and
clear code. - Develop
and implement standards to ensure that application design and code
are produced with proper integrity, security and performance - Ensure
adequate staff competencies in using and maintaining the databases - Perform
any other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The applicant for the NARO Senior Database Management Officer
job opportunity must be a Ugandan who possesses a good bachelor’s degree in computer
science, software engineering or information technology/systems
from a recognised university. Possession of a master’s degree will be an
added advantage. - At
least four years of demonstrable experience as a database applications
developer or Administrator; demonstrable success in developing a
variety of software systems while taking on increasing responsibility for
analysis, design, implementation and development tasks using varying SDLC
methodologies like Waterfall and RUP, J2EE, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, JSP, XML, C++, PL/SQL, and Oracle/SQL Server databases. - Advanced
experience in developing data-driven applications utilizing significant
relational database engines as part of the overall application
architecture (experience with either PostgreSQL or MySQL is required
and any of the following highly desirable; Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL). - Demonstrable
working experience using most of the following: Spring, Hibernate, JQuery,
Subversion, Restful web services, agile methodology, Maven, Jasper server,
android SDK. - Advanced
knowledge and skill with popular open source programming languages JAVA
and PHP 5 and PHP 7. - Proven
skills in enterprise application integration. - Strong
leadership skills and demonstrable ability to work successfully as a
member of a team. - Excellent
analytical and organisational skills.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join NARO are encouraged to send their
applications to the Director General, National Agricultural Research
Organization, P.O. Box 295, Entebbe, Uganda.
applications to the Director General, National Agricultural Research
Organization, P.O. Box 295, Entebbe, Uganda.
The complete applications should include applications, detailed
curriculum vitae giving day-time telephone contacts, names and postal/e-mail
addresses and daytime telephone contact of 3 (three) referees of good standing
in society as well as copies of professional certificates and testimonials.
curriculum vitae giving day-time telephone contacts, names and postal/e-mail
addresses and daytime telephone contact of 3 (three) referees of good standing
in society as well as copies of professional certificates and testimonials.
Deadline: 7th October 2016
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