Senior Analyst, Database Management at First Bank

First BankLagos, Nigeria Data and Artificial Intelligence

Full Time

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. The Bank has been named "The Best Bank Brand in Nigeria” four times in a row - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - by the globally renowned "The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; and "Most Innovative Bank in Africa” in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2014. FirstBank’s brand purpose is to always put its customers, partners and all stakeholders at the heart of its business, even as it is poised to standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across Sub Saharan Africa, in consonance with its brand vision "To be the partner of first choice in building your future”. Our brand promise is to always deliver the ultimate "gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on FirstBank’s inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position our customers first in every respect.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage the database administrators to ensure that Installation and configuration of relevant network components for database consistency and integrity
Secures database by developing policies, procedures, and controls.
Ensuring all the data complies with legal and international regulations
Maintains database results by setting and enforcing standards and controls.
Prepares for database expansion by studying plans and requirements; advising senior technical management; coordinating design and programming.
Keeps senior technical management informed by preparing reports on system performance and problems.
Manage and develop checklists for the Installation and configuration of oracle and SQL databases following OEMs best practice
Use database management system software and tools to investigate problems and collect performance statistics and create reports for capacity management.
Carries out routine configuration/installation and reconfiguration of database and related products.
Respond to and resolve database issues Oracle and SQL and escalate to the OEMs as need arises
Perform routine performance tuning on the bank’s databases while ensuring high levels of data availability, integrity and confidentiality
Develop a monitoring tools for database growth on a weekly basis to generate Utilization
Statistics for Capacity Planning and business continuity Management Liaise with other application team leads in ensuring optimal performance of the applications through an effective database management
Management of the bank’s Enterprise backup and Recovery system while ensuring that adequate backup of data is taken and readily available for recovery and restoration in line with the bank’s information security policy
Ensure all Changes to the Configuration of the databases followed strictly the bank’s change management process and in line with the bank’s information security policy
Ensure proper documentation of all databases infrastructure processes/procedures in the Departmental Standard of Operation Document