About the Job
Job Title: Data Base Administrator, Smart Mobility
Location: Head Office
Department: Smart Mobility
Reports To:
Tech Lead, Smart Mobility
About Kifiya:
Kifiya is an AI-powered financial and market infrastructure company advancing inclusive economic growth across Africa. We design and deploy risk decisioning systems, intelligent financial infrastructure, and market linkage platforms that unlock credit, insurance, payments, and capital access for MSMEs and smallholder farmers. We build the AI, data, and financial infrastructure that helps financial institutions serve hard-to-finance segments at scale.
Business Unit Description
Smart Mobility is Kifiya’s digital mobility infrastructure venture designed to modernize passenger transport systems through intelligent digital platforms, marketplace coordination, and data driven operational oversight.
The platform enables transport operators, regulators, fleet owners, and passengers to participate in a unified digital mobility ecosystem that improves efficiency, transparency, safety, and accessibility of transport services.
Position Summary
The Database Administrator is responsible for managing, securing, and optimizing the organization’s database systems to ensure high availability, performance, and data integrity. The role covers database installation, maintenance, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and security while providing technical support to ensure reliable business operations.
Key Responsibilities
Database Administration and Platform Reliability
• Administer, configure, maintain, and continuously optimize databases supporting the Smart Mobility platform.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of databases supporting ticketing, passenger services, operator management, scheduling, and mobility analytics.
• Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and system availability, implementing proactive improvements where required.
Database Performance and Optimization
• Optimize database structures, indexing, queries, and transactions to support high-volume platform operations.
• Collaborate with application developers to improve database performance and optimize SQL queries for scalability and responsiveness.
• Monitor database capacity and develop growth plans that support future platform expansion.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Design, implement, and maintain database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
• Conduct regular backup validation and disaster recovery testing to ensure business continuity and platform resilience.
• Support incident response and rapid restoration of database services following system failures.
Database Security and Governance
• Implement database security controls including user access management, encryption, auditing, and data protection mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards, regulatory requirements, and data governance policies.
• Monitor database activities and investigate security or integrity issues affecting platform data.
Database Change and Release Management
• Plan and execute database upgrades, patches, migrations, and schema changes with minimal disruption to platform operations.
• Support technology release activities by validating database changes and ensuring compatibility across platform components.
• Maintain version control and change documentation for all database environments.
Data Architecture and Platform Support
• Support the design and maintenance of database structures that enable efficient storage and retrieval of operational mobility data.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure databases effectively support platform integrations, APIs, reporting, and analytics.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Smart Mobility data architecture and platform scalability.
Operational Support and Continuous Improvement
• Troubleshoot and resolve database issues to minimize operational disruptions.
• Maintain database standards, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, and application teams to support reliable platform operations and continuous improvement.
Key Outputs
• Secure, reliable, and highly available databases supporting Smart Mobility platform operations.
• Optimized database performance supporting high-volume passenger and ticketing transactions.
• Effective backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capability.
• Secure and compliant database environments protecting operational and customer data.
• Successful implementation of database upgrades, patches, and migrations with minimal downtime.
• Reliable data infrastructure supporting platform integrations, reporting, and analytics.
• Well-maintained database documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related discipline is an advantage.
- Minimum of five years of progressive experience in database administration within enterprise or platform-based environments.
- Experience administering high-availability production databases supporting mission-critical business applications.
- Experience with relational database management systems such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or equivalent enterprise platforms.
- Experience supporting cloud-based database environments and disaster recovery solutions is highly desirable.
- Experience working within fintech, mobility, logistics, or other high-transaction digital platform environments is an advantage.
Core Competencies
- Enterprise database administration
- Database performance optimization and tuning
- High availability, backup, and disaster recovery
- Database security and data governance
- SQL optimization and database design
- Cloud database technologies and platform operations
- Data architecture and platform integration
- Database monitoring and incident management
- Analytical problem solving and troubleshooting
- Cross-functional collaboration and technical communication and Improvement
Requirement Skill
Analytical skills
Decision-making skills
Communication
Attention to detail
Problem solving
How To Apply
Interested candidates should submit their CV, a brief cover letter outlining their experience with similar warehouse restructuring projects via: [email protected] by writing the job applying for on the subject line of the email address
More Information
- Experience Level Senior
- Total Years Experience 5-10
- Qualification BA/BSc
