Dba Technical Lead

2 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa BET Software Full time

**We Want You**:
**You Bring**:

- 5-7 years’ experience in a commercial environment utilizing a high transaction database.
- 5+years’ experience in PostgreSQL/MS SQL - all aspects.
- Advanced SQL skills and query writing skills.
- Advanced troubleshooting SQL skills.
- Optimise queries and database performance through indexing, query tuning, and appropriate database configuration settings.
- Support to PostgreSQL/MS SQL DBA team in a 24/7 production shift work environment.
- Expertise with Postgres system metrics and optimisation strategies.
- Experience with PostgreSQL/MS SQL performance tuning, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery solutions. Great communication skills and a passion for both teaching and learning.
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**What You’ll Do**:
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.
- 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.

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**Living our Spirit**:

- Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
- Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
- Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability bymodelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
- Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

**The Company We Keep:
**At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth, and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.

**Please note that only Team members who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered.

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