DBA Technical Lead – DBN
at BET Software
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 29 Jul, 2024 | Not Specified | 05 May, 2024 | 5 year(s) or above | Steps,Coaching,Knowledge Sharing | No | No |
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Description:
WE WANT YOU:
Are you passionate about database administration and ready to lead dynamic teams? BET Software is seeking a skilled DBA Technical Lead to join our vibrant teams in Durban and Johannesburg. As a Technical Lead, you’ll collaborate closely with the Team Lead to plan, design, and execute technical solutions. If you’re ready to drive projects to excellence, embrace technological innovation, and make a significant impact, this is your chance to shine. Apply now and embark on a rewarding journey with us.
Knowledge Share
- Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
- Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.
- Provide technical guidance to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.
- Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
- Work with other DBAs/developers, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
- Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
- Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce down time and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third party attacks; data protection etc).
- Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilisation during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.
Quality of Software Implementation
- Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align to these.
- Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
- Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load.
- Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
- Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future DBAs thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.
Initiative and Innovation
- Recommend and implement emerging database technologies.
- Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line.
- Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
- Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
- Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within team and to the wider group.
- Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
- Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.
Knowledge Share
- Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
- Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge.
- Provide technical guidance to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:5.0Max:7.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
1
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa