Database Administrator Job Careers – Living Goods (LG)

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Job
Title:              Database Administrator
Organisation: Living
Goods (LG)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About US:
Living Goods (LG)
seeks to improve the lives of tens of millions of underserved customers by
revolutionizing the way community health is delivered in the developing
world.  To do this, Living Goods not only grows its own business
operations, but also dramatically magnifies its impact through large-scale
partnerships.  Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’
micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their
health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic
medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
Job Summary:   The Database
Administrator will help us model, organize, transform, validate, secure, and
catalog this personal health data, supplemented with public data and data from
our partners. Putting this data in the right form, with the right tools, is
essential to our ability to grow and improve, and ultimately to serve our
clients. You’ll be a good fit if you can handle all aspects of data
engineering, from establishing data pipelines to supporting visualization
technologies for analysts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
·        
Administer
Living Goods databases which includes SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and
CouchDB. This includes updates, maintenance and appropriate support.
·        
Configure
database instances, recommend physical data models, and optimize for
performance.
·        
Design
our databases accordingly to meet our future requirements.
·        
Living
Goods collect data from various streams/applications; ensuring that the correct
data is stored in the right place at the right time.
·        
Create
and monitor systems for data cleaning, transformation and proper validation.
·        
Collaborate
with our data analysts, software developers, operations teams, and partners,
who are the producers and consumers of data. Help them choose the right data
and develop database systems to support them.
·        
Write
technical documentation, including data catalogs, standards, and procedures.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
·        
The ideal
candidate for the Living Goods Database Administrator job must hold a Bachelor’s
Degree in a related field from a top academic program, or equivalent
experience.
·        
Experience
using and administering relational and non-relational database platforms, and
expertise of at least one database (preferably SQL Server).
·        
Strong
analytic skills, especially data consolidation from diverse data sets.
·        
Experience
of linking disconnected data sets to meet business requirements.
·        
Understanding
of data reporting and visualization i.e. dashboards.
·        
Experience
of software development or database scripting to support databases.
·        
Great
English communication skills.
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience
including health insurance, vacation, and a bonus opportunity. The opportunity
to enter an exciting career path within a fast and growing mission driven team.
NB: Please
note that only candidates meeting the minimum qualifications will be
considered.
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply online at
the web link below.
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