Team Lead, Database Management at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Database Management

Ref No: 2000002G
Location: Lagos
Job: IT TECH, SEC & OPS
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From: Manager Grade Range – To: Senior Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

Manage the database administrators to ensure that Installation and configuration of relevant network components for database consistency and integrity
Secures database by developing policies, procedures, and controls.
Ensuring all the data complies with legal and international regulations
Maintains database results by setting and enforcing standards and controls.
Prepares for database expansion by studying plans and requirements; advising senior technical management; coordinating design and programming.
Keeps senior technical management informed by preparing reports on system performance and problems.
Manage and develop checklists for the Installation and configuration of oracle and SQL databases following OEMs best practice
Use database management system software and tools to investigate problems and collect performance statistics and create reports for capacity management.
Carries out routine configuration/installation and reconfiguration of database and related products.
Respond to and resolve database issues Oracle and SQL and escalate to the OEMs as need arises
Perform routine performance tuning on the bank’s databases while ensuring high levels of data availability, integrity and confidentiality
Develop a monitoring tools for database growth on a weekly basis to generate Utilization Statistics for Capacity Planning and business continuity Management
Liaise with other application team leads in ensuring optimal performance of the applications through an effective database management
Management of the bank’s Enterprise backup and Recovery system while ensuring that adequate backup of data is taken and readily available for recovery and restoration in line with the bank’s information security policy
Ensure all Changes to the Configuration of the databases followed strictly the bank’s change management process and in line with the bank’s information security policy
Ensure proper documentation of all databases infrastructure processes / procedures in the Departmental Standard of Operation Document.