Job Location: The Campus, Pun Hlaing Estate, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon.
Position Purpose
Wave Money is undergoing a technology transformation across the IT stack and needs an experienced database engineer to build and maintain multiple Oracle RAC clusters, other DBMS clusters such as Postgres and MySQL and reporting/business intelligence tools such as Statistic.
Key Results Areas
- Delivery of new database design/architecture that will scale to Wave Money’s needs in the future.
- Implementation of the core Mobile Financial Services database using best practices.
- Implementation of load testing and failover testing plans across all DBMS platforms prior to go-live.
- Successfully complete migration activities to cutover to new IT stack/DBMS.
- Achieve KPIs and perform ongoing tuning of tables, indexes, and queries to achieve highest performance.
- Exhibit positive engagement with IT and Business stakeholders
- Exhibit strong leadership and a can-do, positive attitude
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Administers, maintains, develops and implements policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company’s Oracle database.
- Implements data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes; resolves Oracle database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues.
- Creates and maintains all databases required for development, testing and production usage.
- Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases and performs ongoing tuning of the database instances.
- Install new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database.
- Plans and implements backup and recovery of the Oracle database
- Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Databases.
- Enforces and maintains database contraints to ensure integrity of the database.
- Administers all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes and views
- Troubleshoots with problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.
- The DBA should posses the following skills:
- A good knowledge of the operating system(s)
- A good knowledge of physical database design
- Ability to perform both Oracle and also operating system performance monitoring and the necessary adjustments.
- Be able to provide a strategic database direction for the organisation.
- Excellent knowledge of Oracle backup and recovery scenarios.
- Good skills in all Oracle tools.
- A good knowledge of Oracle security management.
KPIs
Financial:
- Delivery of capability which supports the Revenue objectives of Wave Money
- Expense minimization whilst hitting all key objectives
Organisational:
- Minimal outages to Wave customer and agent network.
Individual:
- Result-based improvement and management of IT / Databases
- Leadership and people management
- Vendor engagement
- Document outcomes
Competencies Areas
- Organization development
- Database Structural Design / SAD
- Database Management
- Data Migration
- Transformation Delivery
- Program Delivery
- Leadership
- Partnership
- Communication –written and verbal
- Governance
- Management (small team)
- Development of junior and surrounding staff
- Decision making (rapid and deep consideration)
- Vision setting / strategic thinking
- Architectural consideration
Experience, Functional Skills and Knowledge Areas
- Extensive business experience (5+ years) from working at a senior level with Oracle Databases, technology and project management, preferably in financial services / mobile money.
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science or Technology
- Experience with data migration, data warehouse structuring
- Experience with ETL / Oracle Data Guard and Active Data Guard / SQL-based databases
- Hands on experience with Mobile / Financial Services, Telecom BSS&VAS platform, OR Banking IT services.
- Technical knowledge of financial services systems
- Middleware / Open API spec
- Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
- Project / Program management experience
- Experience within mobile communication and technology
- Competent in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and associated DB design tools
- Basic understanding of industry best practices eTOM, ITIL and quality management frameworks
- English (fluent written and spoken) and Burmese (preferable)
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration
- Life and medical insurance
- Flexible Working Arrangement
Highlights
- Myanmar’s First Mobile Financial Services Provider
- People Centric Culture
- Professional & Fun Working Environment
- Power & Synergy of YSH Companies
Career Opportunities
- Access regular to skill and professional development opportunities
- Career opportunities across Yoma Group
