Team Lead, Subsidiary Database Support at Verraki

Verraki is a proudly African company partnering with enterprises and governments to accelerate the development and transformation of Africa by providing business solutions designed for Africa. We build and implement technology solutions for seemingly intractable challenges, provide advisory services to drive the capacity and motivation for change, and curate innovative ventures to unlock new sources of growth across our continent.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Subsidiary Database Support

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:

• Oversee administration of SQL and NoSQL databases across all subsidiaries
• Ensure 99.95% availability of critical banking databases
• Implement performance tuning and optimisation strategies

Operational Excellence:

• Serve as primary escalation point for all subsidiary database issues
• Coordinate with headquarters DBA teams on standards and upgrades
• Manage database-related vendor relationships for subsidiary locations

Security & Compliance:

• Implement and maintain firewall policies across subsidiary networks
• Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 and other regulatory requirements
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and patch management

 Innovation & Modernisation:

• Maintain and test database backup/recovery procedures
• Ensure RPO/RTO targets are met for all subsidiary databases
• Participate in disaster recovery drills

Team & Stakeholder Management:

• Lead a team of database administrators supporting subsidiaries
• Develop training programs to enhance team capabilities
• Implement performance metrics and service level agreements.

Qualifications
Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s / Master's Degree in Computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in database administration, with 2+ years in a leadership role
• Experience in multi-location database management (preferably in banking/finance)

Certifications:

• Oracle Certified Professional,
• Microsoft SQL Server Certification or equivalent

Skills & Attributes:
Expertise in:

• Stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills. Proven track record in navigating banking regulations while delivering iteratively.
• SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Database performance tuning
• Backup/recovery solutions
• Cloud database technologies
• Banking database security requirements
• Data replication technologies.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: jobs@verraki.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.