Paga Nigeria Senior Database Administrator - Jobs in Nigeria

Paga Nigeria Senior Database Administrator - Jobs in Nigeria

Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Database Administrator

Location: Anywhere
Reports to: Lead Software Architect
Sector: Financial Services

Summary

Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.

At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).

As a Senior Database Administrator Manager, you will own primary responsibility for the performance, security and reliability administration of the core relational databases on the Paga platform.

You will work closely with the software engineering teams (including database engineers) and the platform team (infrastructure and devops).

This Means:

Engaging in strategic database and software design decision-making

Work with team to embed development practices to maintain database reliability and performance

Lead database availability and reliability implementations and operations

Develop and maintain database performance monitoring solutions in collaboration with the platform team

Oversee database backup, archiving and replication activities

Delivery of best practice instruction/training to database engineering and software development team to help maintain data reliability, performance and integrity

Manage database software services including installations and updates

General curation of platform databases from a performance and reliability perspectiv

The senior database administrator will be a key, senior member of the Product Development Team, which is responsibilities for all aspects of development and management of the Paga product platform.

Database administration activities usually span a number of technical areas – application performance, infrastructure and security so database administrators will work closely with all of these teams while reporting directly to the lead software architect (application side) in the Paga development team structure

We expect this role to own primary responsibility for the effective operation of the Paga core relational databases, which at present exist in both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL deployments.

Paga’s Product Development team structure is spread primarily across Lagos Nigeria, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, and Mexico City Mexico, so this role, based out of London, comes with the expectation of very strong remote collaboration and

self-management skills.

You will need to be excellent at utilizing remote communication tools and applying clear communication and collaboration practices to effectively engage with your team mates and other company stakeholders.

There will be the expectation of occasional travel to some of the Paga office locations for training, team events, user-engagement and general market-empathy development

Primary Responsibilities

Database design and software strategy input, Collaborating with other software architecture functions to advise on database-related design concerns.

Database performance management – Managing live and other database environments to optimize performance

Database reliability management – Leading database reliability practices including configuration, replication, archiving, backup etc. and collaborating with platform team to maintain excellent database performance monitoring solutions

Database security administration – Overseeing database security management

Database data integrity management – Overseeing database integrity management implementations

Database development best practices sharing – Engaging in knowledge sharing to provide best practice instruction / training to database engineering and software development team to help maintain data reliability, performance and integrity.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

Experience: 10+ working with relevant DBMSs and 4+ years of database administration experience with relevant DMBSs.

10+ working with relevant DBMSs and 4+ years of database administration experience with relevant DMBSs.

Experience administering MS SQL Server required.

Experience administering PostgreSQL highly desirable.

Experience with cloud-based database service platforms.

Key Competence:

Strong strategic and critical thinking skills.

Excellent in team and cross team collaboration skills.

Good verbal / written communication skills.

Highly meticulous and attentive to detail.

Strong multi-tasking and self-management skills.

Curious, self-driven and empathetic.

Application Closing Date
3rd Sep 2022

How to Apply

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Paga Nigeria Senior Database Administrator - Jobs in Nigeria

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