At
Siginon Group, our determination to achieve our vision of being Africa’s world
class logistics company is the driver of everything we do.
We are
proactively designing systems and processes that ensure operations excellence
and peace of mind for our customers.
Block
by block, we are building a team of Qualified, Motivated, Competent and
Energized individuals with a Winning culture to drive this vision.
Database
Administrator & System Analyst
Job
Purpose: Reporting
to ICT Manager, the job holder will be responsible for maintaining all company
databases and Systems to ensure optimum performance by identifying user needs
and to support the development of formulated business continuity plans.
Responsibilities:
- Establishing
the needs of users and monitoring user access and security.
- Working
closely with the Business Analyst to improve the systems performance.
- Monitoring
performance and managing system parameters to provide fast responses to
front-end users.
- Mapping
out the conceptual design for a planned database and further refining the
physical design to meet system storage requirements.
- Considering
both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for
end-users.
- Maintaining
data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Bill (GOK).
- Writing
database documentation, including data standards, procedures and
definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
- Controlling
access permissions and privileges.
- Recommend
solutions by defining database physical structure and functional
capabilities, database security, data back-up, and recovery
specifications/plan.
- Ensuring
that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly (Backup).
- Provide
the reports to meet the organization needs and the BI analysis for
management.
- Commissioning
and installing new applications and customizing existing applications in
order to make them fit for purpose.
- Update
and keep divisions Inventory and support users.
- Ensure
that the data on the DR site is available and correct.
- Provide
monthly database reports
- Contribute
to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Education,
Professional Qualifications & Work experience
- Diploma
in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science/BBIT will be an added advantage.
- Data
base management certificate will be an added advantage.
- Professional
Certification in IT field.
Skills
& Competencies
- At
least 2 years’ experience in a similar position or equivalent
- Solid
understanding of Servers and Networks.
- Knowledge
of SAP Business