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, MongoDB.
• CI/CD and DevOps principles adherence and utilization.
• Prepare and execute all phases of the Agile Scrum to agreed standards and specifications.

Qualifications

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• University degree from a recognized institution preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• 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.
• A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure.
• Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent planning, organization, problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration technologies and tools to drive business.
• Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
• Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project tasks.
• Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
• Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contribute towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
• Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and interfaces.
• Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.

Qualifications

• University degree from a recognized institution.
• 5 years Technology experience with at least 2 years’ experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.
• 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.
• A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure & continuous integration tools such as GIT, Jenkins, XLR.
• Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.

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 the 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components.
• Experience and familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing enterprise specifics - Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
• Analyzing and documenting requirements- Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Setting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the Business subject matter experts in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Analyzing the technology environment- Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
• Controlling solution development-Participate in solution developments to ensure technical and business requirements are adhered to.
• Supporting project management- Provide architectural oversight of projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
• Leverage’s business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business, and information architecture efforts.
• Translates strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and logical models.
• Build and maintain repositories for deliverables, methodologies, and business development documents.
• Ability to independently facilitate discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and manage the flow of conversation while driving to meet business objectives.
• Ability to independently manage conflict among diverse cross portfolio stakeholders related to competing interests and requirements.
• Able to help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.

Requirements & Qualifications

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• 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, Design Thinking, and Innovation; Project Management - PRINCE II.
• 5 years technology experience in at least two IT disciplines such as business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, micro services, and SOA.
• Experience working with Database Management Systems.
• Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud and processing environments.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid).