Exciting Career Opportunity at the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) - Senior Database Administrator

Are you ready to embark on a transformational journey? We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join us as the Senior Database Administrator. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are committed to ensuring high availability, performance, security, and reliability of databases, leveraging both open-source and commercial database solutions, this is the opportunity for you!

In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring that RSSB has a seamless integration and adoption of new technologies, processes and systems across. You will collaborate closely with development teams, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to ensure efficient data management and seamless integration with applications and services and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Reporting to the Head, Engineering, the Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of database systems across the organization. This position plays a crucial role in planning and executing database migrations, upgrades, and version control, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.

About RSSB

The Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) has the mandate to manage and promote social security in Rwanda. RSSB's vision is to provide a comprehensive social security system that caters to the diverse social security needs of the population, RSSB plays an important role in realizing Vision 2050 and the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). RSSB manages six social security schemes, namely: Pension, Occupational Hazards, Medical scheme, CBHI, Maternity Leave Benefits and EjoHeza (Long-term Term Saving Scheme).

As a leading player in the financial sector, RSSB serves as the largest institutional investor in Rwanda. With assets under management amounting to 2.06 trillion Rwf , which is equivalent to over 15% of the country's GDP, RSSB invests in key sectors of the economy and plays a crucial role in growing the country’s financial sector. With approximately 12 million members in the above six schemes, encompassing over 90% of Rwanda's population, RSSB is at the forefront of securing the health and financial well-being of Rwandans.

To achieve its important mandate, RSSB is embarking on a transformative journey, aiming to become a modern, data-driven, and high-performing institution. As part of this ambitious initiative, we are seeking highly motivated individuals who are results-oriented and uphold the highest standards of professionalism and integrity. By joining RSSB, you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to the advancement of social security and overall transformation of Rwanda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Implement and manage database replication, backup, and recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

2. Optimize database performance by monitoring systems, analyzing query performance, and implementing indexing strategies and database tuning techniques.

3. Collaborate with development teams to ensure adherence to database design best practices, data modeling, and schema management.

4. Implement and maintain database security measures, including access controls, encryption, and auditing mechanisms.

5. Automate database maintenance tasks, such as backups, index rebuilds, and statistics updates, using scripting languages and automation tools.

6. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior database administrators and other team members.

7. Stay up-to-date with the latest database technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and provide recommendations for adoption and improvement.

Key Qualifications and Experience

The successful candidate must have at least:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience

2. Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Database Administrator, with hands-on experience in both open-source and commercial database solutions

Key competencies

Technical Competencies:

1. Proficient in database management systems (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).

2. Experience with database monitoring and performance tuning tools.

3. Knowledge of backup and recovery tools and strategies.

4. Familiarity with virtualization technologies and cloud-based database solutions.

5. Understanding of agile software development methodologies and version control systems (e.g., Git).

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

2. Strong communication and documentation skills.

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4. Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

5. Attention to detail and commitment to data integrity and security.

Additional Information:

The position is based in Kigali, Rwanda and applicants must be willing to relocate outside their countries of domicile.

RSSB reserves the right to appoint or to issue an employment contract to the successful candidate.

Interested candidates are advised to visit the RSSB website for a more detailed job description for the role, and submit your application online by 9th Monday, December 2024

In addition, please attach a curriculum vitae that contains details of your qualifications, experience and positions held relevant to this role. Include your day and evening telephone numbers, email address, names and address of three professional referees. Also, attach copies of your academic and professional qualifications.

Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to submit a valid Criminal Clearance Certificate.

RSSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer