About the Organization:
FINCA International, one of the world's leading MFIs, provides financial services to over 950,000 clients through 21 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Greater Middle East.
About the Job:
FINCA International is looking for a Database Administrator. S/he will have responsibility on the environmental aspect of database management systems. These include recoverability (creating and testing backups), verifying data integrity, defining and/or implementing access controls to the data, ensuring maximum uptime of database, ensuring maximum database performance given budgetary constraints, developing, and testing support.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications;
- Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes;
- Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure;
- Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations;
- Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions;
- Train users and answer questions;
- Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database;
- Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems such as the installation of new databases;
- Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project;
- Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
Qualifications:
- More than 3 years of experience within a technical support environment, including hardware, software, and network support. Experience using relational databases, DBA certification is desirable;
- Proven ability to resolve problems efficiently and effectively. Experience programming in a database query language;
- Previous experience as a database administrator;
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills;
- Fluency required in English.
Closing Date: 31 Dec 2012
How to Apply:
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