State Bank of Pakistan, the Central Bank of the country, regulates the monetary and credit system of Pakistan and fosters its growth in the best national interest with a view to securing monetary stability and optimum utilization of the country’s productive resources. In order to strengthen the institutional capacity in the area of Information Technology, applications are invited from high calibre and dynamic professionals for the following positions in Information Technology Department, permanently based at Karachi.

1. Deputy Director-Database Administration (OG-3)

Key responsibilities of the incumbent will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Analyze, develop, test and implement complex physical database designs; ensuring proper and effective structure, security and operation of databases that support SBP Business applications.
• Manage the availability of databases for business applications of SBP.
• Manage and monitor backups, restore and recovery of databases. 
• Manage and perform disaster recovery operations of databases.
• Develop and co-ordinate in producing security rules, procedures and guidelines for the protection of data sources.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of all the Databases by utilizing different tuning techniques.
• Develop and implement data administration policy, standards and models.
• Capacity planning of Oracle database servers by analyzing their rate of growth.
• Provide timely support to business team in routine based operations.
• Ability to create test environments/instances of databases as per business requirement.
• Fine-tune, establish and initiate database recovery activities, backup, installation, version upgrade and patching of databases.

Qualification	Masters or Bachelors Degree (16 years) in Computer Science / Computer Systems / Computer Engineering / Electronics / Information Systems or related field from HEC recognized institutions or from a reputable foreign university. Relevant certification will be preferable.
Age	Maximum 35 years, relaxable by 5 years in case the candidate possesses highly exceptional experience.
Experience	At least six (06) years experience in database administration preferably in banking sector.
Core  Competencies  Preferable	Hands on experience in Oracle ERP11i, 12i , Oracle Forms based Applications Up-gradation, Consolidation and Platform Migration, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, Oracle Application Server, EBS 11/12i, HP-UX /Linux / VM and cluster environment. Hands-on experience on T24 banking application tasks such as EOD Technical Support, Archiving, database File management, Distributed DB file management and database recovery. Hands-on experience in the Implementation of ITIL Framework based CA products such as DB-Insight, Wily and ELM (Enterprise Log Manager).  Good knowledge of the Planning, Designing and Implementation of Oracle High Availability and Disaster recovery Solutions such as Oracle RAC and Data Guard. Good Knowledge of virtualization and implementation of Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM. Work experience of Data warehouse Administration Tools such as BI, Discoverer, data warehouse builder etc. Ability to sustain the security and integrity of databases.

2. Assistant Director- Database Administration (OG-2)

Key responsibilities of the incumbent will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Maintain availability of databases for business applications of SBP.
• Perform backups, restoration and recovery of databases.
• Ability to perform disaster recovery operations of databases. 
• Ability to create test environments/instances of databases as per business requirement.
• Troubleshoot different connectivity problems of front-end applications with the databases.
• Conduct routine backup operations of all the Databases of SBP.
• Create Database & Application users and Installation of Oracle Database engine on various platforms.
• Perform checks on all the Production Databases.
• Take part in Cloning and patching of Databases.

Qualification	Masters or Bachelors Degree (16 years) in Computer Science / Computer Systems / Computer Engineering / Electronics / Information Systems or related field from HEC recognized institutions or from a reputable foreign university. Relevant certification will be a plus.
Age	Maximum 31 years, relaxable in case the candidate possesses exceptional qualification or experience.
Experience	At least three (03) years experience in database administration preferably in banking sector.
Core  Competencies  Preferable	Hands-on experience in Oracle ERP11i, 12i, Oracle Forms based Applications, T24 banking application tasks such as (EOD Technical Support, Archiving, database File management, Distributed DB file management and database recovery. Hands-on experience in Oracle ERP11i, 12i and Oracle Forms based Applications Up-gradation, Consolidation and Platform Migration.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates meeting the above eligibility criteria may send application alongwith detailed CV’s and copies of relevant documents, to Senior Joint Director, Human Resources Department, State Bank of Pakistan, 10th Floor, SBP Main Building, I.I. Chundrigar Road, Karachi. Please clearly mark the envelope with the position applied for. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: May 08, 2017

Misinformation and any attempt to influence the selection process will be considered a definite disqualification for current as well as for all future recruitments in the Bank, even if the candidate is otherwise qualified.