IT Officer-Database Management job at National Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board

Job Title: IT Officer Database Management

Salary Scale: NLGRB 5

Reports to: Senior IT Officer

Responsible for: None                                

Job purpose

To design, develop and maintain database management systems

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Plan, design, develop and install enterprise databases in order to make them fit for purpose.
2. Maintain database integrity by ensuring database parameters, objects and access are standardized and managed.
3. Maintain database security by ensuring security plans and measures are laid out and followed.
4. Monitor database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters.
5. Perform system database integrations to introduce new innovative business channels by ensuring an end-to-end integration with third party systems. Introduce new technology tools and applications that enable accommodation of changing business requirements.
6. Plan, size, install, configuration and upgrade of enterprise database management systems on new server installations during primary disaster recovery and staging environment setups.
7. Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary and capacity planning.
8. Maintain business continuity preparedness for enterprise databases by implementing disaster recovery procedures.
9. Manage, administer, backup and perform disaster recovery of the Board’s databases.

Person specifications

Qualifications

1. An honor’s Bachelor’s degree in either Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering and Computer Engineering, Information Security, Business Computing, Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Science (with focus on Computer Science and/or Mathematics)

Working experience

Nil.

Competencies

1. Technical

• Research and analytical skills
• Knowledge management
• Information Communication Technology
• Risk management

2. Behavioral

• Decision Making and Problem Solving
• Concern for quality and standards
• Communicating effectively
• Innovativeness and creativity
• Ethics and integrity
• Time management

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