The job
This role is responsible for managing, optimizing and securing databases, as well as designing and implementing BI solutions to drive data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in database management, data analytics, reporting, and BI tools, along with leadership capabilities to oversee a team and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization.
Job Description
Database Management:
- Overseeing the design, implementation and maintenance of enterprise databases, ensuring high availability, performance and security
- Managing database backups, recovery strategies and disaster recovery planning
- Optimizing database performance through tuning, indexing and query optimization
- Ensuring data integrity, compliance, and security, adhering to industry standards and best practices
- Collaborating with IT and business teams to integrate databases with applications and reporting systems
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics:
- Developing and maintaining BI dashboards, reports and data visualizations to support business decision-making
- Analyzing data trends and providing actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency and business performance
- Managing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for data integration from multiple sources
- Ensuring BI tools and platforms are optimized, scalable, and aligned with business objectives
- Working with stakeholders to define KPIs and reporting requirements
Leadership & Strategy:
- Collaborating with senior management to develop data governance policies and BI strategies
- Staying up to date with emerging database technologies, BI trends and industry best practices
- Driving automation and process improvements to enhance database and BI system efficiency
profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science or a related field
- At least 7+ years of experience in database administration and business intelligence
- Proven experience with SQL databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or QlikView
- Strong expertise in SQL scripting, query optimization and database performance tuning
- Hands-on experience with ETL processes, data warehousing and data modeling
- Proficiency in BI tools, data visualization and reporting
- Knowledge of cloud database solutions (Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Google BigQuery, etc.) is a plus
- Familiarity with machine learning and predictive analytics is an advantage
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong leadership and team management abilities
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
