Database Administrator

About Seven-Up Bottling Company Ltd

Seven-Up Bottling Company Ltd is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.

Job Brief

• The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance-tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning:

• Assess and develop long-term strategic goals for production databases in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
• Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.

Acquisition & Deployment:

• Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.

Operational Management:

• Create models and relational entity diagrams for new database development and/or changes to existing ones.
• Install and configure relevant network components to ensure database access as well as database consistency and integrity.
• Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.
• Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Monitor, optimize, and allocate physical data storage for database systems.
• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to databases.
• Create, or support the creation of, required reports in response to business user needs.
• Perform database transaction and security audits.
• Establish appropriate end-user database access control levels.
• Develop routines for end users to facilitate best practices in database use.
• Manage and/or guide junior members of the team.
• Understand the needs and requirements of the applications using the databases and provide support for these applications.
• Coordinate multiple applications accessing the same database.
• Write and debug lines of SQL code for application development.

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification:

• A minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) or university Degree in the field of Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience as a DBA.
• Certifications in Database Management and/or Administration from Microsoft or Oracle are required.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting database servers, including Microsoft SQL Servers 2008 to 2022, MySQL, Postgres, and SAP HANA Database.
• Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques.
• Project management experience.
• SQL Scripting experience.
• Programming skills are nice to have.
• Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Personal Attributes
• Leadership ability.
• Business Savvy.
• Political Sensitivity.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to conduct research into database issues, standards, and products as required.
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.