Senior Database Architect - Payment Solutions Provider

Senior Database Architect

About the Company :

Client is a leading provider of payment solutions to corporate's and financial institutions of all types and sizes in EMEA, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. My client puts intelligent automation, compliance, and control firmly at the heart of your payments business. Financial institutions and corporate's worldwide rely on my client to manage & control their payments securely, improve operational efficiencies and lower risk & IT costs.

Aims & Goals :

- The primary aim of the Sr. Database Architect is to be able to address issues of Data Migration (Validation, Clean-up, and Mapping) and will need to understand the importance of Data Dictionaries.

Key Responsibilities :

- Requirement Analysis and Solution Design

- Design and develop OLTP Databases, Data Warehouses and Multi-dimensional Databases

- Develop strategies for data acquisitions, archive, recovery and implementation of a database

- Develop data models for database structures

- Integrate technical functionality such as scalability, security, performance, data recovery, reliability, etc

- Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility

- Produce and enforce database development standards

- Maintain a repository of all data architecture artefacts and procedures

- Identify and evaluate current data management technologies

- Provide a strategic database direction for the organisation

Experience level & Qualification :

Experience Level :

- 10-15 years of experience as Database Analyst/Database Designer with relevant DBA exposure

Educational background :

- Preferably a BE/BSc in computer science or related engineering field

- May be certified as an Oracle DBA

Essential skills :

- An Enquiring Mind

- Ability to abstract general principles from specifics

- A strong desire to establish Standards of Best Practice. Communications and Presentation Skills

- Experience in code migration, database change management, and data management through the various stages of the development lifecycle

- Sound knowledge of both database and system performance tuning

- Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines

- Should possess sound understanding of the business

- Sound knowledge of the implemented application systems

- Willing to work in shifts

Additional Skills :

- Sound understanding of the Oracle database, related utilities, and tools

- Sound understanding of the Data Replication Software such as Data Guard and Golden Gate

- Sound understanding of the underlying operating system

- Sound knowledge of the physical database design

- Ability to perform both Oracle and operating system performance tuning and monitoring

- Knowledge of all Oracle backup and recovery scenarios

- Sound knowledge of Oracle security management

- Ability to define data backup and restore policy.

- Ability to optimise available resources pool hardware and people both.

- ISO\ITIL process knowledge