NCBA Principal Backend Engineer Jobs in Kenya

NCBA Principal Backend Engineer Jobs in Kenya

Job Purpose Statement

The Manager, Integrations will be responsible for all development and maintenance of software integrations
done by the digital business. This is a planning and development role whose focus is the analysis, design,
development, and management (technical support) of the division’s integrations and API Strategy. The role leads the team that does integrations and API management.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Analysis, Design and Development of NCBA Digital Business Integrations: Responsible for the
Design and Development of NCBA Integrations in accordance with Business Requirements. Champions the NCBA Digital Business API strategy for increasing market share. (30%)

Expert Advice on Integrations and Owner of NCBA Digital Business Code Intellectual Property: The
incumbent will be the in-house expert on Integrations best practice. He / She will oversee code reviews
(internal, and where necessary externally produced code) and in charge of maintaining the NCBA
Code Repositories. (25%)

Group IT Architecture: Will contribute to the definition of the NCBA Digital Business IT Architecture and own the areas that specifically cover NCBA Internal Applications. The incumbent will be responsible for the refinement of the Architecture to ensure Application Development work carried out adheres to, and advances the GITA (25%)

Second Level Support and Problem Management: The role is responsible for proactively identifying
commonly escalated Application issues and then researching, troubleshooting and providing more
enduring solutions to these persistent issues for Internal Applications. The incumbent will lead the team responsible for 2nd Level Support on Internal Applications (20%)

Main Activities

Design and develop, and continuously improve, of the Bank’s Internal Middleware applications

Provide expert guidance on 2nd level escalations on the bank’s Internal Software Applications to the team’s running the applications on a day-to-day basis

Ensure that all the assigned bank integration platforms keep pace with technological innovations and developments as a way of protecting investment in technology.

Evaluate, plan, implement and maintain the assigned work packages in IT Projects within agreed
time and budget constraints.

Provide input into the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plan and Data Security Plan for the Internal Software Applications in order to guarantee continuation of services at all times.

Ensure the systems he/she is responsible for adhere to the NCBA BCP and Data Security Plan

Carry out code reviews on internally developed applications and where contracted, for externally
developed code

Maintain and ensure the consistency and back up of the NCBA Code Repository, in line with the
BCP plan

Knowledge Transfer on Internal Software Applications to the IT Operations and IT Applications
Teams to allow for smooth day to day IT systems operations

Provide expert input (on bespoke software applications) in the development and continuous
improvement of the NCBA GITA

Qualification and Experience Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. A Master’s
degree in Technology or Business-related course is an added advantage

Minimum 8 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 5 of those years within systems development on Web, Mobile, Windows and Solaris/Linux platforms

Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g., ITIL, PRINCE2

Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java, C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g., Oracle and MS SQL etc.

Hands-on experience in Mobile development on Android, iOS. Windows Mobile development is an added advantage

Hands on experience in Web Development (AngularJS, NodeJS, Asp.Net) and Web Servers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS and Nginx)

Experience with Code Repository (Version Control) tools (SVN, Git)

Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP, XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)

Excellent analytical, problem solving and reporting skills

A good knowledge of the systems and processes within Financial Services industry

How to Apply

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