The Databases Administrator role is to design, plan, implement and support the databases in the organisation, and the related infrastructure. The Database administrator should be expert in operating databases in different platforms especially different operating systems, Cloud implementations, Storage platforms, core database platforms. The role should design databases for the required performance, capacity management considerations, and should be capable to align the performance database requirements with the costs in implementing and supporting the platforms.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities) 
Perspective 
% 
Weighting 
(to add up to 
100%) 
Output 

Database Planning 40% Design, and implement organizational database systems to 
achieve performance and availability targets. 
Develop and implement Capacity management 
procedures to keep databases within capacity 
management thresholds 

Database 
Management 
30% Manage Databases availability, Service Recovery, to 
ensure projects, incidents; problems are addressed 
according to defined set of policies, processes, procedures 
and SLA’s. 

Database 
Integration 
10% Effectiveness of integration of database strategy / blueprint 
with the bank’s business direction 

Database Security 10% Effectiveness of the databases security (policy, controls and 
infrastructure) with regard to protection against exposure to 
and impact of risks associated with data loss, corruption 
and/or unauthorized access 

Database Setup 10% Plans, Designs and implements Database projects in 
accordance with Bank’s requirements and Monitor 
Capacity/Performance of the group databases to ensure 
optimum efficiency

 Specifications

Ideal Job Specifications 
Academic: 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
 
Professional: 
• ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, other relevant professional qualifications in IT field would be an 
added advantage 

• Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP 

Desired work experience: 
• Three years’ experience in databases and storage support on medium to large
 
organizations. 
• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added 
advantage 

 Dimensions

Reporting Relationships: jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly
Direct Reports None 
Indirect 
Reports None 

Stakeholder Management: key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work 
with to be successful in this role.
Internal 
IT Department 
External 

Decision Making Authority /Mandates/Constraints: the decisions the position holder is 
empowered to make (Indicate if it is Operational, Managerial or Strategic). Please also 
highlight any budgetary control responsibility if applicable for the role. 
• Structure of the databases and database infrastructure within approved guidelines 
• Databases design, reviews and improvement proposals 

Work cycle and impact: time horizon and nature of impact (Planning) 
(e.g. Less than 1 week, 2 weeks, 2 weeks – 1 month, 1month – 3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 
months, above 1 year) 
3-6 months