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

Experience, Functional Skills and Knowledge Areas

• Extensive business experience (7+ 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)

Competencies Areas

• 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
• Organization development