Database Administrator at Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Database Administrator

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description
Database Administrator:

  • The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance-tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability.
  • This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.

Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:

  • Assess and develop long-term strategic goals for production databases in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
  • Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
  • Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.

Acquisition & Deployment:

  • Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.

Operational Management:

  • Create models and relational entity diagrams for new database development and/or changes to existing ones.
  • Install and configure relevant network components to ensure database access as well as database consistency and integrity.
  • Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.
  • Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
  • Monitor, optimize, and allocate physical data storage for database systems.
  • Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to databases.
  • Create, or support the creation of, required reports in response to business user needs.
  • Perform database transaction and security audits.
  • Establish appropriate end-user database access control levels.
  • Develop routines for end users to facilitate best practices in database use.
  • Manage and/or guide junior members of the team.
  • Understand the needs and requirements of the applications using the databases and provide support for these applications.
  • Coordinate multiple applications accessing the same database.
  • Write and debug lines of SQL code for application development.

Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification:

  • A minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) or University Degree in the field of Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience as a DBA.
  • Certifications in Database Management and/or Administration from Microsoft or Oracle are required.

Knowledge & Experience:

  • Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
  • Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting database servers, including Microsoft SQL Servers 2008 to 2022, MySQL, Postgres, and SAP HANA Database.
  • Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
  • Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques.
  • Project management experience.
  • SQL Scripting experience.
  • Programming skills are nice to have.
  • Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
  • Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.

Personal Attributes:

  • Leadership ability.
  • Business Savvy.
  • Political Sensitivity.
  • Strong technical documentation skills.
  • Good interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to conduct research into database issues, standards, and products as required.
  • Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
  • Highly self-motivated and directed.
  • Keen attention to detail.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
  • Strong customer service orientation.
  • Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Deadline: 31st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should
Click here to apply online

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.


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