Database Designer (Architect) At World Vision

World Vision International

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our over 34,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united in helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Through our work, every 60 seconds … a family gets water … a hungry child is fed … a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Database Designer (Architect), you are expected to facilitate the development of the right future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption. You will provide overall direction, guidance and definition of architecture programs that effectively support business strategies. You will also advocate and support the enterprise’s IT strategies, identify and analyze enterprise business drivers, analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommend solutions for improvement and develop strategies aligning IT to the business. You must have significant business knowledge and have one or more areas of technical expertise in which they concentrate. These technical areas may include network, security, applications and systems software, data and Internet.

Requirements include:

• Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems or equivalent discipline At least 7-10 years of relevant experience in Database design/administration.
• Subject matter expert on database technologies such as MS SQL Server and some other RDBMS MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in building database projects for on-premise or cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and implementing new database schema/ model that meets the business requirement with optimized DB performance.
• Specialized in DB performance tuning, DB infrastructure capacity/ high availability planning for very large and critical database systems.