Premier Switch Solutions S.C. (PSS) is a leading Electronic Payment Processing Company, established by major private banks of Ethiopia. The Company has implemented the first multi-institution shared-switch infrastructure to provide its member banks with a state of the art payment technology to drive ATM, POS, e-commerce, Mobile Banking and other payment channels and provide clearing of Debit/Credit card transactions for the banks. 

Currently, PSS has one vacant position stated below and would like to invite applicants who meet the qualification and required experience listed for this job opening. 

Description of Duties

• Implement policies, procedures and write process documents for the database administration and lead in their implementation through continuous review.

• Execute the design, setup, installation and integration of various databases to meet the business’ requirements and are compliant with PCI DSS and other relevant security standards.

• Build highly available and best performing systems to meet the customer expectation.

• Work with vendors for all database support activities.

• Work with database vendors to implement fixes and issues that are logged to vendors portals.

• Develop and implement procedures to ensure data integrity and quality are maintained.

• Involve in different payment application and other related projects.

• Provide/revoke users’ privilege and monitor user access management.

• Conduct database tuning as per performance metrics.

• Design, develop and manage new and existing business intelligence reports.

• Manage and implement reporting systems.

• Implement system capacity planning and business continuity.

• Conduct database and logs backup, restoration, archiving and retention as per the policy and procedure regularly.

• Investigate and analyze trace files.

• Perform maintenance, upgrade and migration of database and related systems.

• Implement new database technologies and work with the relevant work units in the development of new products and services.

• Work closely with the payment application work unit.

• Perform end of day tasks

• Provide training, coaching and mentoring of employees within the unit towards effective career development.

• Attend incidents, interruptions, malfunctions, and system quality reductions at any moment.

• Prepare periodic reports

• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor.

Job Requirements

Qualification & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in ICT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related field

• At least 5 years of experience in database administration

• Training in Oracle Database.  

• Extensive knowledge in database technologies, data security, database architecture

• Experience in Oracle database, Oracle RAC and grid infrastructure management

How to Apply

Interested applicants who meet the required qualifications are invited to submit their updated CV and copies of relevant documents within 10 days of this announcement.

We only accept applications sent via our email:  pss.hr@pss-ethiopia.com

Please write clearly for which position you applied on the email subject line.

 NB. : Only short-listed candidates will be contacted