Sr. Database Architect
About Pelican
Pelican is a leading provider of payment and compliance solutions to corporates and financial institutions of all types and sizes in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Pelican puts intelligent automation, compliance and control firmly at the heart of payments and other transactions processing. Financial institutions and corporates worldwide rely on Pelican to manage and control their payments securely, improve operational efficiencies and lower risk and IT costs.
Aims & Goals
The Sr. Database Architect must be able to address issues of Data Migration (Validation, Clean-up and Mapping), and will need to understand the importance of Data Dictionaries.
Key Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis and Solution Design
• Design and develop OLTP Databases, Data Warehouses and Multi-dimensional Databases
• Develop strategies for data acquisitions, archive, recovery and implementation of a database
• Develop data models for database structures
• Integrate technical functionality such as scalability, security, performance, data recovery, reliability, etc
• Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility
• Produce and enforce database development standards
• Maintain a repository of all data architecture artifacts and procedures
• Identify and evaluate current data management technologies
• Provide a strategic database direction for the organization
Experience Level
• 10 - 15 years of experience as Database Analyst/Database Designer with relevant DBA exposure
Educational Background
• Preferably a BE/BSc in computer science or related engineering field
• May be certified as an Oracle DBA
Essential Skills
• An enquiring mind
• Ability to abstract general principles from specifics
• A strong desire to establish Standards of Best Practice
• Communication and presentation Skills
• Experience in code migration, database change management and data management through the various stages of the development life cycle
• Sound knowledge of both database and system performance tuning
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines
• Should possess sound understanding of the business
Additional Skills
• Sound understanding of the Data Replication Software such as Data Guard and Golden Gate
• Sound understanding of the underlying operating system
• Sound knowledge of the physical database design
• Ability to perform both Oracle and operating system performance tuning and monitoring
• Knowledge of all Oracle backup and recovery scenarios
• Sound knowledge of Oracle security management
• Ability to define data backup and restore policy.
• Ability to optimize available resources pool hardware and people both.
• ISO\ITIL process knowledge
