Dba / Data Architect Team Manager - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 10-02-2016 4:00:12 PM
09-03-2016 4:00:12 PM
Our client is currently looking for expert senior DBA’s, who want to architect, build and evolve the DB infrastructure supporting our internal applications platform. The candidate must possess a solid understanding of database architecture, SQL, Linux, DB performance optimisations and configurations and be on top of current trends.
 
The DB team manager provides leadership to and manages the DB team. Work involves the planning, scheduling, and assigning of DB related projects and tasks; coordinating DB projects with other aspects of the business; driving the overall DB architecture; driving team standards; review teams work; driving teams & environment policies; and providing technical assistance to development team members where needed. This role requires considerable use of initiative, independent judgment, professionalism and eye for detail.
 
Responsibilities
  • Manages a team of DBA’s, providing feedback and training where necessary, assisting with conducting performance reviews, recruitment and dealing with any issues within the team.
  • Work closely with the executive team to define db platform roadmap and drive overall db delivery.
  • Manage the team schedules, planning, scheduling, and assigning projects.
  • Assist team in developing solutions; Participating in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including requirements capture, design, and implementation, testing, and debugging solutions. Provide architectural and technical guidance.
  • Provide sound decision making for data environment, sensitive to the constraints and needs of the business.
  • Monitor technology trends such as emerging standards for new technology opportunities.
  • Assist tech dev. manager with employee development and teambuilding.
  • Assist tech dev. manager with employee coaching and mentoring.
  • Has understanding of each client's business, systems and objectives.
  • Communicates and enforces the Company’s DB standards 
 
DB skills
  • Strong SQL skills to solve any data query requirement.
  • MySQL Intermediate (expert preferred)
  • Must have experience architecting, building and using web services api’s (REST, SOAP
  • etc).
  • Has good understanding of the technologies required in the DBA domain.
  • Understands complex database concepts as well as the implications of different database
  • designs.
  • Effectively employs many different database design techniques.
  • The following skills are a bonus but not required
    • Other data solutions such as couchDB, redis, NoSQL etc.
    • Percona and/or percona toolkit
 
System skills
  • Linux. Expert experience with bash scripting experience preferred Networking and DNS (intermediate)
  • Version control systems CVS/ SVN/GIT
  • CentOS/Fedora/RHEL (Bonus)
  • High availability experience (Bonus)
  • Redmine, trello or other issue tracking experience
 
Position Requirements
  • 8+ year’s recent DBA experience. Formal qualification is a plus.
  • Experience managing a DB team.
  • Experience architecting or maintaining high performance, scalable, reliable databases.
  • Proven experience meeting deadlines and delivering quality solutions.

Recruiter: CompuJobs