Database Administrator at Sanlam Group

Who are we?

Sanlam Developing Markets [SDM] (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanlam Life Limited) is one of the top financial services providers in the South African entry-level and emerging middle market. It aims to understand the unique requirements of clients and offers a wide range of simple and affordable financial solutions that cover needs such as funeral insurance, savings for education, life cover and personal accident plans. In terms of the Sanlam Group Governance Policy, SDM is managed by the SA Retail Mass cluster, which is part of the Sanlam Life and Savings cluster within the Sanlam Group. The cluster focusses on retail porducts, as well as group schemes.

What will you do?

• Enabling business

  • Responsible for supporting the business by ensuring that all SQL environments are running optimally

  • Take responsibility for capacity management and performance tuning of a database 

  • Security and risk management of the SQL estate

• Communication

  • Interface with multiple business users across the organization.

  • Work closely with the development teams - assist with any queries (performance tuning, best practices, troubleshoot logic issues etc)

• Coaching

  • Review team members’ code and advise on enhancements

  • Assist with up skilling team members by assisting Jnr staff, system analysts, and application developers and showcasing new and interesting technologies/methodologies

• Deployments

  • Ensure stable releases to Test and/or Live environments.

  • Manage ETL environment, assist in project deployments

What will make you successful in this role?

• Matric

• Relevant tertiary qualifications

• Minimum 10 years extensive working experience in a SQL DBA role

  • Must have work experience with SQL security and a very good understanding on how to design and implement security roles for enterprise type databases

  • Must have experience in designing and building large/high volume transactional and analytical Databases

  • SQL SSAS deployment, security models and design knowledge are advantageous

• Extensive knowledge of SSRS, SSAS, T-SQL and SSIS.

• A solid understanding of how the SQL engine works

• Solid understanding of performance tuning principles within SQL, SSAS, SSRS.

• • SQL High availability experience is critical. 5+ years of experience on SQL HA.

  • Must have SQL performance tuning experience on large systems

  • Must have solid T-SQL development skills.

• Must have 2-3 years team lead/management experience, leading SQL DBAs

Qualification and Experience

Degree or Diploma with 10 to 12 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Database Knowledge
• IT Data Analysis
• Data Security
• Risk Management
• Reporting and Administration

Personal Attributes

• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process