Background

BPR Bank Rwanda Plc (BPR) is a dynamic financial institution dedicated to providing exceptional banking services to our customers. As one of the largest players in the industry, we prioritize customer satisfaction, innovation, and employee development. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals who share in our vision to create change in Rwanda’s financial sector to join our dynamic team.

Job Purpose

The database administrator is responsible for ensuring high performance, high availability, integrity, and security of database systems in BPR Bank. These databases will run on diverse technologies such as Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL and other relational databases.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage and support high performance, highly available and mission critical database platforms for the Core Banking, Digital channels, and other systems.
• Manage SQL Server and MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations
• Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems
• Review and design database structures to support business requirements including logical and physical database modeling.
• Install, configure and maintain database instances, creates various database objects, create users with appropriate roles and levels of security.
• Implement database security policies that are consistent with laid security guidelines.
• Implement and perform database backup and recovery strategies that meet recovery and availability requirements.
• Determine appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization.

Daily Responsibilities

• Running, managing and securing all bank applications databases and timely support to the business across the Bank.
• Implementation of database solutions to achieve optimum performance with High Availability and quick recovery for disaster in order to ensure Business continuity.
• Monitoring and providing security control of data management systems to ensure optimal performance as well as protection of information assets.
• Providing technical management support to other IT and business units in implementing of projects.

Educational qualifications and work experience

• Bachelor's level degree in ICT related field or Electrical Engineering;).
• Professional Qualifications in Oracle Databases (OCP) MySQL, MS SQL, Hadoop, Cloud certifications.
• 3 years Minimum experience in Oracle Database Administration, MySQL administration, Experience Data warehousing.

• Manage and support high performance, highly available and mission critical database platforms for the Core Banking, Digital channels, and other systems.
• Manage SQL Server and MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations
• Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems
• Review and design database structures to support business requirements including logical and physical database modeling.
• Install, configure and maintain database instances, creates various database objects, create users with appropriate roles and levels of security.
• Implement database security policies that are consistent with laid security guidelines.
• Implement and perform database backup and recovery strategies that meet recovery and availability requirements.
• Determine appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization.
• Running, managing and securing all bank applications databases and timely support to the business across the Bank.
• Implementation of database solutions to achieve optimum performance with High Availability and quick recovery for disaster in order to ensure Business continuity.
• Monitoring and providing security control of data management systems to ensure optimal performance as well as protection of information assets.
• Providing technical management support to other IT and business units in implementing of projects.

• Oracle Database Administration
• MySQL administration
• Data warehousing
• Query tuning
• Schema refinement
• Database modeling
• Database security
• Backup and recovery strategies
• Performance monitoring
• Troubleshooting

• Bachelor's level degree in ICT related field or Electrical Engineering
• Professional Qualifications in Oracle Databases (OCP) MySQL, MS SQL, Hadoop, Cloud certifications