Browse Jobs
For Employers
Post JobLog inGet Started

Database Manager

Nasr City, Cairo
Posted 5 years ago
64Applicants for1 open position
  • 55Viewed
  • 9In Consideration
  • 1Not Selected
Search other opportunities

Job Details

Experience Needed:
Career Level:
Education Level:
Salary:
Job Categories:

Skills And Tools:

Job Description

  • The Database Engineering Manager will have overall accountability for delivering support and engineering excellence in Database Engineering and Administration.
  • This individual will be responsible for overseeing engineering and support functions with a focus on developing long-term strategy for the administration, operation and support of these enterprise data services.
  • The ideal candidate will have deep understanding of database logic, server-side development and distributed systems. Experience with various database technologies (traditional relational SQL Server and NoSQL).
  • This position is responsible for championing and driving organizational and technological change with the goal of continuously improving to serve our customers and to improve IT service delivery.
  • In addition, this role is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with the appropriate Business Operations and IT Leadership Teams and their direct reports and serves as the main escalation point for issues which cannot be resolved by the members operating within the Database Engineering and Administration team.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Ensure the performance, monitoring, uptime and cost of all enterprise data systems meets or exceeds expectations.
  • Manage the staff of the Database Engineering and Administration team, including employee motivation, hiring and terminating, writing reviews, preparing performance evaluations and individual development plans.
  • Behave like a “service manager” by working across individuals/teams to ensure an issue is resolved as quickly and correctly as possible. Follow up on work required by others to ensure they are doing their part.
  • Design and define enterprise strategy around Database Administration for; computing and storage, SQL and NoSQL databases, large scale database creation and management, and application and infrastructure level monitoring. Lead engineering teams in the development, execution and evaluation of this strategy.
  • Deliver exceptional IT Support Services to all consumers of Database technologies.
  • Oversee all Database Administration team activities and respond to escalated service desk incidents and requests.
  • Perform trend-analysis and develop action plans for improving service timeliness and reduce costs.

Job Requirements

  • +5 years direct IT leadership experience
  • +7 years expertise in enterprise database technologies.
  • Experience in SQL Server Databases a must.
  • Experience in NoSQL such as MongoDB and Apache Solr.
  • Experience PL/SQL, SQL, Stored procedures, performance tuning
  • Experience with distributed systems, redundancy
  • Strong leadership, communication and organizational skills
  • Proven ability to balance multiple priorities and communicate across organizational boundaries
  • Experience with agile development process
  • Ability to understand technical product and process characteristics and requirements and effectively utilize that understanding within the business systems environment to support product lifecycle requirements.
    Strong competency in requirements analysis, design, testing, training and support with direct user experience.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

Featured Jobs

Similar Jobs

Search other opportunities
JobsIT/Software DevelopmentDatabase Manager