Manager, Database Specialist; Microfinance Programme

Job Description

Title: Manager, Database Specialist; Microfinance Programme

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: At least 27 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• Bachelor's in CSE or equivalent from any reputed educational institute.

• At least 5 years

• Age At least 27 years

Additional Job Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, database architecture, data modeling, data warehousing, and cloud database platforms.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL, query optimization, performance tuning, database design, and enterprise-scale database management.

• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, or similar database technologies.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder collaboration skills with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement and adoption of modern database technologies.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Database Specialist/ Database Administrator in the software, ICT, or fintech industry etc.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
BRAC Microfinance provides people who cannot access traditional financial banking services with access to a suite of financial services, including loans, savings and microinsurance. We provide an alternative to high-interest loans from informal lenders, supporting families to invest in income-generating activities, build assets, and reduce vulnerability to health shocks and natural disasters. Passionate about finance beyond formal banking systems? Join the BRAC Microfinance team to help build a more financially-inclusive society, where everyone can access finance when they need it - safely, responsibly and sustainably.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
Job Purpose: The role will be responsible for managing database specialist for designing and managing scalable, high-performance database systems across applications. Also involves architecture decisions, optimizing queries, and ensuring data integrity, security, and availability. Work closely with engineering teams to support data-driven solutions and system integrations and performance tuning.
Location: BRAC Head Office
Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of robust, scalable, and high-performance database architectures aligned with business and application requirements.

• Define and enforce database design standards, naming conventions, normalization rules, and data modeling best practices across the team.

• Evaluate and recommend appropriate database technologies (relational, NoSQL, cloud-native) based on project needs and organizational strategy.

• Design of data warehouses, data marts, and reporting databases in collaboration with data engineering and analytics teams.

• Oversee day-to-day database operations including installation, configuration, patching, and version upgrades across all environments (development, staging, production).

• Capacity planning efforts by monitoring database growth, resource utilization, and performance trends to forecast infrastructure needs.

• Define and enforce database access control policies, user role management, and privilege governance across all database systems.

• Design and own the database backup strategy including full, incremental, and differential backup schedules across all environments.

• Regular backup validation and disaster recovery drills to verify data integrity and recoverability within defined RTO and RPO objectives

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

• Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Performance Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave, Wellness Centre Facility, Day Care Facility, and others as per policy.