About The Company
Our client is an established, fast-growing retail and trading group in the UAE, serving customers across multiple branches with a strong focus on operational efficiency, data accuracy, and customer trust. As the business scales, they are strengthening their IT function and are looking to bring on a Junior Database Administrator to support the reliability and performance of their core business systems.
The Role
The Junior Database Administrator will support the day-to-day administration, monitoring, and maintenance of the company's databases and CRM systems, working closely with the IT team to ensure systems are secure, available, and performing well. This is a hands-on role suited to someone early in their career who is comfortable working with data, CRM platforms, and Excel in a live commercial environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Support administration, monitoring, and routine maintenance of company databases and CRM systems
- Maintain and update records within CRM systems (Salesforce, Zoho, or similar), ensuring data accuracy and integrity
- Monitor database and CRM performance and data quality, escalating issues promptly
- Perform regular backups and assist with restore and disaster recovery testing
- Assist in implementing and maintaining database and CRM security, access controls, and user permissions
- Prepare and maintain Excel-based reports, trackers, and dashboards for internal use
- Support data migration, import/export, and integration tasks between business systems
- Troubleshoot database and CRM-related issues in coordination with application and infrastructure teams
- Maintain accurate documentation of database and CRM configurations, procedures, and change logs
- Assist senior team members and IT management with system upgrades, patching, and process improvements
Requirements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field
- 1-3 years of experience in a database administration, CRM support, or systems support role
- Working knowledge of CRM systems required; experience with Salesforce or Zoho preferred
- Strong proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivot tables, data management)
- SQL knowledge is not required
- Familiarity with Windows and/or general business software environments
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical, disciplined approach to data integrity and security
- Excellent to good English communication skills, written and verbal, required
- Open to all genders and all nationalities