2 Finacle Database Administrator Job at DFCU Bank - Career Opportunity in Uganda
Vacancy title:2 Finacle Database Administrator
Jobs at:
DFCU Bank
Deadline of this Job:
8th November 2017
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
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Job details:
Reports to: Senior Database Administrator
DFCU bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of innovative products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of Germany) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC and UDC, each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.
Job Summary: The Finacle Database Administrator will be responsible for ensuring availability, performance, integrity and security of the databases that support the core banking Application with its support systems and interfaces to attain operational excellence.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Run the daily Finacle start and end of day processes to guarantee integrity of the Business Reports.
- The incumbent will design/Script adhoc reports for the Finacle suite of products as and when required by the business.
- Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
- Create shell scripts for task automation.
- Sort out all Finacle suites of products in liaison with the Finacle Analysts.
- Log all Finacle related issues to external support groups to provide resolution within the agreed SLA against respective severity of the issue.
- Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
- The jobholder will review the setups and functionality of the Bank’s controlled Test environment to ensure that it is in line with the production systems and processes.
- Deploy and install new products, upgrades, patches or improvements to the Finacle suite of products in the production environment.
- Carry out backup and test recovery plans; of all the Finacle suite of products to facilitate business continuity.
- Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
- Monitor availability and capacity of the Finacle System, its databases and interfaces.
- The applicant for the DFCU Bank Finacle Database Administrator job opportunity must hold a Bachelor’s degree.
- Possession of professional certification i.e. OCP, MCDBA, and Oracle PL/SQL and UNIX n preferably HP-UX and LINUX will be desirable.
- Extensive knowledge of SQL and database management systems is a must.
- Previous experience working with open source RDBMS e.g. Mysql
- Extensive knowledge of shell scripting and other scripting languages like Perl, Python, PHP etc.
- Strong working knowledge of Finacle applications.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of how other interfaces interact with other Finacle databases.
- Ability to analyse data or Information; Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Thorough understanding of the bank work flows and regulatory requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
All candidates who so wish to join the banking sector in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to send their applications with detailed CVs including present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates to: Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com
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