Senior Database Administrator job at KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP)
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Vacancy title:
Senior Database Administrator

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP)

Deadline of this Job:
24 January 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Kilifi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

JOB PURPOSE:
This role is responsible for create and maintain overall network plans to support the organization’s business strategy, initiating service level agreements with customers, plan and design all aspects of the infrastructure necessary to ensure provision of network services that meet such agreements.

Key Responsibilities
• Advise and provide technical expertise on database development framework and processes;
• Analyses data requirements, to establish, modify or maintain a data model and interpret model into a database schema;
• Evaluate potential solutions, demonstrate, install and commission selected products;
• Interact with data models, object relational database mapping and producing reports;
• Develop and enable enterprise reporting and business intelligence services;
• Collaborate with IT project management office, software developers and infrastructure specialists in IT project delivery;
• Responsible for the delivery of software based enterprise wide projects;
• Advise and support data managers and statisticians in execution of dynamic data tasks;
• Performance tune all database environments to all systems are available and ensure the use of latest technology;
• Conduct research on development of improved frameworks and technologies for database efficiencies;
• Advice on department resources regarding recruitment and staffing;
• Ensure that the appropriate disaster recovery measures are in place; and
• Advice and review backups and recovery policies and SOP’s.

Job Specifications
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology/Computer Science or in related specialization of study; Masters degree is an added advantage
• Relevant DBA Certification e.g. OCA, OCP, MCSD, MCSE, MYSQL for DBA, AGILE, IBM analytics, PMP, PRINCE2
• Minimum 5 Years with 3 Years’ experience at Supervisory level

Desired Skills
• Experience in Data management for scientific studies
• Advanced knowledge of computer languages;
• Expert knowledge of writing program documentation;
• Strong understanding of the software development cycle;
• Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate;

Competencies:
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal, written, presentation and communication skills
• Basic analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills;
• Team working and ability to work in diverse teams
• Flexibility, adaptability, multi-tasking and attention to detail


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 24 January 2023
Duty Station: Kilifi
Posted: 11-01-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 11-01-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 11-01-2067
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