Jobs at Techsavanna Technology Limited
Techsavanna has provided a wide range of ICT services and software for Property Management, Project Management, Energy Management and Financial Management in diverse industry and client profiles. In Eastern Africa the firm has offices in Nairobi, in the region the firm comprises of with a total staff force of over 100.

Business Analyst

Reference No 2-MJIK

Summary

The role holder will be responsible for the Enterprise Architecture (IT Solution, Technical, systems, business & information architecture) of IT systems used by or to be procured by the Bank. He/ She will ensure that all IT Systems are aligned to the Enterprise Architecture Framework, Bank policy and best practice.

He/ She will be will also be responsible for IT Governance which reviews all IT systems used by or to be procured to ensure they are aligned to the Bank and IT strategy, plans, policies, and standards.

In addition, the role holder will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the business needs of the business stakeholders, including customers and end users.

The Business Analyst works closely with business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to identify and document in detail the business needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead requirements analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable; and transfer the same knowledge to the development team.
  • Documentation of business requirements and processes for all business initiatives and projects.
  • Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement viz a viz information technology systems enhancement.
  • Develop high level solution designs while ensuring requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
  • Responsible for the requirements management in the scrum teams.
  • Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or requirements workshops.
  • Participation in the business initiatives prioritization stage.
  • Participate and guide on functional tests planning and execution.
  • Participate in the IT quality assurance process.
  • Ability to communicate (verbal and written) with business units that rely on that information to define system requirements or organizational processes.
  • Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements. 
  • Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field of study from a recognized institution.
  • Certification in Project Management or ITIL Foundation.

More Details on Experience

  • 3 years’ experience in IT Systems with at least 2 years’ experience in IT Projects, Banking Operations, Change Management, Emerging Technologies (channels, mobile and internet banking).

More Details on Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills

 

Business Architect

Reference No 03/MJIK

Summary

The role holder is responsible for the Enterprise Architecture (IT technical systems, business & information architecture) used by or to be procured by the Bank. Ensure that all IT Systems are aligned to the Enterprise Architecture framework, Bank policy and best practice.

The business architect will be responsible for alignment of technology solutions to business needs through the analysis of business motivations, business operations and business models & frameworks. The Business Architect will work to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standards. 

The successful person should demonstrate proficiency in developing IT business process models (automated, manual processes, system & process interfaces) and related documentation for IT Systems in use by or to be procured by the Bank in line with Bank policy, Business Process Architecture best practice, standards, and methods.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct business process improvement initiatives aimed at improving efficiencies and effectiveness. 
  • Act as a liaison to Business and IT to gain a broad understanding of business initiatives and their impact on technology.
  • Documentation of business requirements and processes for all business initiatives and projects.
  • Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning, and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables.
  • Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
  • Lead effort to work with business leaders to identify business capability needs and IT integration.
  • Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements. 
  • Assess the current Business framework to detect critical deficiencies and recommend for improvement in line with the IT strategy and delivery priority of the IT/Bank programs.
  • Function as a liaison to Business and IT partners to gain a broad understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on technology.
  • Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
  • Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework
  • Participate and guide on functional tests planning and execution.
  • Participate in the IT quality assurance process.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
  • At least one professional qualification in the following list: - CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation; Prince2

More Details on Experience

  • 7 years progressive experience in Information Technology with at least 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as Application Architecture, Application Development, Integration, Micro Services and Software Asset Management in a multitier environment.
  • Experience with Operating systems (Windows/ Unix) and Database Management Systems.
  • Experience working in Business Analysis / Applications Architecture.
  • Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
  • Experience and familiarity with graphical modelling approaches, tools, and model repositories.

More Details on Skills

  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components
  • Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects.
  • Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization

 

Application Developer

Reference No 1/MJIK

Summary

The Application Developer will work as part of a team and individually to design and code functional programs and applications. He/she will be required to write “clean” and flawless codes and produce fully functional software applications according to requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand business requirements and how they translate to application features.
  • Collaborate with a team of IT professionals to set specifications for new applications.
  • Design creative prototypes according to specifications.
  • Write high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines.
  • Perform unit and integration testing before launch.
  • Conduct functional and non-functional testing.
  • Troubleshoot and debug applications.
  • Evaluate existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features.
  • Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code.
  • Tech Stack; JAVA, Spring, CAMEL, React, JSON, Mongo D
  • CI/CD and DevOps principles adherence and utilization.
  • Prepare and execute all phases of the Agile Scrum to agreed standards and specifications.

Education

  • University degree from a recognized institution preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology.

More Details on Experience

  • 3 years Technology experience with at least 2 years’ experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.
  • Excellent knowledge of at least two programming languages.
  • Application development experience using any of the following technologies: 
    Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX-RS), REST and SOAP API, Java Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices, JPA/JDBI, Openshift
  • Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.

More Details on Skills

  • A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure.
  • Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Excellent planning, organization, problem-solving and analytical skills.
 

Method of Application

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your cell phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role, clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below before 12th October 2022.

Email: info@techsavanna.technology


Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 12 October 2022  
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 23-09-2022
No of Jobs: 3
Start Publishing: 23-09-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 23-09-2065
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