Jobs at Old Mutual South Africa

Role overview

This Cape Town based role is aimed at developing and maintaining the databases within the Oracle Insurance Policy Administration (OIPA) Centre of Excellence (COE) function and reports directly to the OIPA COE Lead.This role supports, maintains and develops databases and their applications to support the systems (OIPA and its peripheral systems), testing, QA and production environments.

Key Result Areas

Database Design & Management

• Ensures storage, archiving, backup and recovery procedures function correctly.
• Establishes user needs, meets their access requirements and resolves their problems.
• Participates in patch applications and upgrades.
• Participates in the configuration, tuning and troubleshooting of the databases in use in Development, QA and Production.
• Performs backup, recovery and maintenance of databases.
• Refines 'logical' design so that it can be translated into a data model.
• Refines design to meet system storage requirements.
• Supports, maintains and develops databases and their applications to support the systems, testing, QA and production environments.
• Works closely with IT project managers, database programmers and web developers.

Additional Maintenance & Support Process

• Performs release management of bug fixes and new configuration using Java and Weblogic or other relevant tooling.
• Supporting AWS hosted databases.
• Supporting AWS hosted application servers.
• Supporting Weblogic deployments.
• Assisting with trouble shooting of application deployments.

Documentation Development & Maintenance

• Writes database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary.

Quality Management

• Communicates regularly with technical, applications, and operational staff, to ensure database integrity and security.
• Maintains data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act.
• Monitors performance and makes recommendations.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience Required

• Relevant Software Engineering/Information Technology Diploma
• Minimum of 4 years relevant experience

Competencies

• Strategic
• Collaboration (Relating)
• Customer First
• Execution
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Leading with Influence
• Personal Mastery (Learning)