Principal Senior Database Architect at Ministry Of Finance And Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) Under Contract : Deadline: Feb 15, 2024

Job responsibilities

Under direct supervision and guidance of the E-Procurement Program Manager, the Principal Senior Database Architect will be responsible of the following:

• Lead e-Procurement Operations team • Be in charge of the e-Procurement system day to day operation to ensure system stability, availability, security and accessibility • Carry out database development, administration and management • Building e-Procurement Business and Artificial Intelligence • In charge of the design and implementation of e-procurement dashboards for different system users and stakeholders • Manage commercial tools used by the system and ensure the system always has support and licenses are up to date • Monitor and support the externally linked systems performance and stability • In charge of the implementation of IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools to support system operations and production environment. • Manage Oracle databases (and other system databases) through multiple application lifecycle

• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities • Installing Oracle patches on Linux operating system with grid and data guard infrastructure • Perform test of oracle database backup sets and keep validated backup copies for restore and recovery • Check and ensure that the backups taken as per the backup policy are successful and are of usable quality.

• Reviewing system and application logs, looking for any potential issues and verifying and ensuring completion of automated scheduled jobs like bid opening, external linkage data exchange and replication to the disaster recovery and offline backup sites. • Oversee the system support operations to ensure user satisfaction and customer success • Run Umucyo Contact Center and upgrade it for 24/7 availability and for higher first time response rate • Reporting issues as and when noticed and follow up their fixing • Supervise the administration, backup, upgrade and support of the end users support tools

• Communicating regularly with technical and applications staff to ensure system availability and performance

• In charge of the registration and management of e-Procurement system new entities and users • Working closely with e-procurement application team, database programmers and developers to ensure system support, improvement and operations are synchronized • Work with the application architect and security engineer to implement e-Procurement DevSecOps • Transfer knowledge, collaborate and mentor junior staff • Ensure that weekly and other relevant reports are prepared and submitted to the immediate supervisor • Carry out any relevant other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor

• • 1
    Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 2
    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 3
    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 4
    Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 5
    Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 6
    Master’s Degree in Computer Science

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 7
    Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 8
    Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management Systems,

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 9
    Master’s Degree in Information Management Systems,

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 10
    Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

    5 Years of relevant experience

• • 11
    Master of Science in Information Technology

    3 Years of relevant experience

• 12
  Master’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

  3 Years of relevant experience

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