Req: 124535
Role: Database Administrator
TA Consultant/: Lebohang Monate
Closing date: 22/08/2023
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
It Application Development
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Technical
Job Purpose
To ensure the support and maintain departments databases in line with Data warehouse data model; metadata repository and to provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support.
Job Responsibilities
- Build working relations across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation.
- Build working relations with departments especially the infrastructure team
- Provide resolutions on database conflicts to align to quality standards and eliminate inappropriate data usage.
- Support and building the scalable and resilient databases to mitigate disaster and performance issues.
- Provide database access and provide database administrative support, replication of processes and maintenance.
- Build and maintain data archiving processes to ensure business only keeps what they require to avoid databases running out of space.
- Assist teams with optimization of code to avoid long running scripts that impacts the database performance
- Avoid wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce cost.
- Develop, encourage, nurture, and maintain collaborative relationships within Nedbank and across teams.
- Compile alert reports and build monitoring to visualize database performance and to pre-empt database issue before they occur.
- Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
- Identify and mitigate risk by executing within governance.
- Resolve incidents by logging and tracking through correct channels. Ensure work are delivered according to; relevant technical standards. Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
- Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
- Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.
- Structure data into compliance standards by adhering to metadata governance procedures according to Nedbank documented standards and formats.
- Manage final transformed data content by complying to prescribed standards for reviewing and publishing.
- Support business units by providing consulting services that delivers data and information relevant to their business. Contribute to internal and external information sharing sessions by attending formal and informal meetings.
- Manage vendor relationship interactions by conforming to vendor management office guidelines and principles.
- Ensure customer needs are met through regular customer feedback session.
Degree in Computer Science/Computing, DBA Certified or relevant field.
Essential Certifications
- Data Management (DAMA) Certification, Certification/formal training in relevant technology
3-5 years experience in database administration.
Knowledge required
Detailed theorical and practical knowledge of optimizing database processes/scripts.
Troubleshooting analysis protocol
Various database systems SQL server, DB2, Postgres
Databases queries and theory
DBA reporting skills
Behavioural Competencies
- Coaching
- Communication
- Initiating Action
- Managing Work
- Quality Orientation
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
