Team Lead, Database Management at Access Bank

Access Bank Plc is a full service commercial Bank operating through a network of about 366 branches and service outlets located in major centres across Nigeria, Sub Saharan Africa and the United Kingdom. Listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1998, the Bank serves its various markets through 4 business segments: Personal, Business, Commercial and Corporate & Investment banking. The Bank has over 830,000 shareholders including several Nigerian and International Institutional Investors and has enjoyed what is arguably Africa's most successful banking growth trajectory in the last ten years ranking amongst Africa's top 20 banks by total assets and capital in 2011. As part of its continued growth strategy, Access Bank is focused on mainstreaming sustainable business practices into its operations. The Bank strives to deliver sustainable economic growth that is profitable, environmentally responsible and socially relevant.
Job Grade: AM – MGR
Reports to: Unit Head Database Management
Group: Database Management

Job Overview

The key objective of the team is to ensure the availability, performance, and integrity of critical databases supporting the Bank's wholesale banking and other enterprise platforms, providing technical support for complex issue resolution.
The role maintains disaster recovery readiness, enabling failover or restoration from backup in the event of production disruption, and ensures compliance with the Bank's security and access policies.

Key Responsibilities

Carry out database capacity planning for subsidiary and project database environments, review complex SQL codes, and provide technical guidance during the deployment of new applications.
Interface effectively with Infrastructure, Application, and other IT teams to provide appropriate L3 support and maintenance for database deployments.
Put measures in place to ensure the integrity of subsidiary and project databases is not compromised.
Design and implement database backup policies and procedures, including disaster recovery measures to enable failover to an alternative site or restoration from backup in the event of production disruption.
Monitor database sizes against capacity plans, ensure regular health checks of database infrastructure, and perform performance tuning to guarantee continuous availability and optimal performance.
Ensure all subsidiary and project databases operate in compliance with the bank's security and access policies.
Respond to internal and external audit queries and ensure remediation of observed vulnerabilities and non-conformities.
Facilitate root cause analysis on database issues and drive timely resolution of complex, escalated problems.
Perform benchmarking analysis to properly size hardware platforms and maintain technical documentation relating to database management functions.
Provide leadership, technical guidance, and capacity development to team members supporting subsidiary and project database operations.

Qualification & Experience
Mandatory:

Bachelor’s degree in STEM, Computer Science, data base management or related discipline
Minimum of 7 years of experience in core database management, preferably in a financial institution 
Sound proficiency in database management.
ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF certifications
Oracle OCP/OCE, Database, Java SE, Certified Master or other relevant Oracle certifications.

Desirable:

Experience in the financial services industry is highly desirable. 
Master's degree in IT or a relevant discipline 
Other relevant professional certifications and qualifications.

Requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Technical & Functional Skills:

Good knowledge and proficiency of Oracle Database
Good knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server database
Ability to use Oracle data dictionary
Ability to review and interpret log files, AWR and other diagnostic reports to resolve performance challenges
Good knowledge of UNIX/Linus and other relevant operating systems
Good security knowledge
Ability to research, resolve and document unknown problems.
Regulatory knowledge.

Generic Skills:

Creative and taking initiative
Good communication skill (Oral & Written)
Analytical / Problem solving
Self-management
Interpersonal skills.

Supervisory Skills:

General managerial / administrative
Team building / conflict management
Leadership / Coaching / Supervisory/ Influencing
Organization and coordination.