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- Company: HFC Limited
- Location: Kenya
- State: Nairobi
- Job type:
- Job category: IT/Telecom Jobs in Kenya
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Job Description
HFC is the banking and property finance subsidiary of HF Group, offering fully fledged commercial banking and property finance solutions. These competitive solutions are customized to meet the unique needs of our customers. These include Retail Banking, Trade Finance, SME banking, Asset Finance &; insurance Premium Financing, plot loans, construction financing, home loans, project finance and equity release solutions. The bank has a branch network of 25 branches and has invested in alternative channels to enhance accessibility and convenience for customers.
Overall Job Purpose
The Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting the business by maintaining an optimized service delivery, increase customer satisfaction (internal & external) and increase efficiency on the way staff use banking systems data.
Principle Accountabilities
- Providing user support: availing accurate and reliable data, performing approved backend postings to the system
- Coordinate Users’ and Service Providers’ issues-resolution through reporting, tracking
- Optimize database systems and provide healthy database platforms
- Ensure replication is running for configured systems
- Deploying applications, enhancements together with vendors to the business
- Offering technical support by troubleshooting reported challenges in the end of day processes
- Ensuring data integrity within the banking systems
- Regular performance review of banking systems. Reporting on system performance by providing all relevant system reports against set banking system targets for management decisions
- Ensuring that comprehensive User Acceptance Tests (UATs) are done with all new deployments.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
- A University degree in Information Technology or related field
- Atleast 3 years’ experience in supporting a busy ICT environment with thorough knowledge of banking operations, system procedures and programming.
- Proven experience in installing, setup, support and troubleshooting modern database systems i.e Oracle and MS-SQL in a high availability environment.
- Experience in Storage and Backup management, working in UNIX and windows environment.
- Experience in Sybase (or SAP Hanna) will be an added advantage.
- Experience in design and analysis of business workflows,System administration,Networking skills and Information Security skills.
Key Competencies and Skills
- Results oriented
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Spread sheets knowledge,
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving skills
- Must be self-driven and a team player.
- Must have Integity
