Information Technology

Information Technology

Head of Information Technology

• Required to lead a technical team that manages the data stores, database and data lake technologies of the bank
• Contribute to technology and policies related to data management practice and database technologies.
• Development of procedures to guide the service management and analytical activities for the bank. The focus of data strategy is for business continuity and resilience
• Setup the data management and data store capability and capacity. Build and manage an effective Database Technology roadmap which provides multi-year and multi-site resilience.
• Required to keep lights on for the bank database systems, operate in a 24×7 digital environment, maintain available and performant services
• Required to develop cadence for patching, backup and restoration strategy, audit performance, tuning and various technologies with minimal disruption to business
• Required to maintain adherence to the Information Security policies and procedures to enhance integrity and security of systems and data.
• Coordinate all technology Audits and Monitor compliance with the IT policies and procedures to ensure gaps are identified and addressed in a timely manner
• Required to plan and execute technical plans and demonstrate technical capability in writing SQL, No-SQL, Shell scripts and SSIS packages for data extraction, manipulation, transformation and transmission.
• Support development and tuning of new applications and adopting the right technology for upcoming services for the bank.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors to ensure they comply with the Service Level Agreement and provide quality and timely service, Coordinate with Infrastructure service teams across the bank to ensure Customers are provided quality services.
• Implement effective IT Disaster Recovery Plans for database technologies and ensure alignment with overall Business Continuity Management strategy.
• Manage the Changes and incidents that are an integral part of database administration service and operations management.
• Manage critical areas of authorizing changes and managing incident recovery process for all database technologies of the bank.
• continuously review the risks continuously and plan for remediation’s or address them as required.
• Lead the data management practice and database technologies and the multiple teams and individuals that manage them.
• Required to do performance evaluation, competency development, capability and capacity management for individuals and the team.
• Evaluation of the costs associated with database technologies and managing the costs associated with the database practice
• required to manage relationship with service providers, vendors, suppliers and subscriptions.
• Play a critical role in supporting development practice at the bank support the Agile practices.
• Evaluate and propose new technologies and support by reducing the risk of technology debt.

• A minimum of Six (6) years’ experience in Leading a Database Management Practice or technical team with similar role and complexity, four (4) of which must be at a technical level.
• A demonstrated ability to lead a large and complex technology team with 24×7 operations
• Experience with complex technology deployments which are a mix, on premise and cloud technologies.
• Career exposure to engineering capability is essential
• Exposure to Database technologies listed below
• MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Casandra, Informix, Oracle
• Horizontal scaling and Vertical scaling of database technology
• ETL capability and programming SSIS packages
• Stored procedure and triggers
• Programming in C# and / or Java
• Knowledge of Cloud DB technology like NuoDB is a plus
• Data lake technologies and big data technology like Hadoop and No-SQL big data stores
• Database tuning
• Backup, restoration practice
• Clustering and resilience scaling of DB technologies.
• Query writing in SQL and data extraction capability
• Hardware Architecture, Servers, Storage, Networking, Hypervised Infrastructure and Multi-OS environment
• Experience of managing a T24 core banking environment data stores will be an added advantage
• Experience with API performance tuning and management will be an added advantage
• Experience of leading teams through business transformation is an added advantage

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, information systems or any other relevant degree
• Project Management Certification or Agile Scrum Master Certification will be an added advantage DBA certification is at least one of the listed

• Data Maintenance
• Database Management
• Database Design
• Reporting Skills
• Requirements Analysis
• Conflict management
• Organization skills
• Innovation ability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Knowledge of relevant financial services and IT legislation,
• Knowledge of professional standards