Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using Java , Jbasic 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.
- Expose integration interfaces from the core banking using Temenos Web Services (TWS) and connect to third party utilities from core banking to gateway.
- Implement and support all customisations and initiatives across the group business i.e DFS, Retail, Corporate, Operations, Credit and subsidiaries.
- Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyse 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.
- Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
- 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.
- Analyse and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes 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
- Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
a. Academic & Professional
| Particulars | Detail | Specific Field or Qualification | Need Type 4 |
| Education | Bachelor s Degree | Any Degree | RQ |
| Professional Qualifications | Java programming certification DevOps tools e.g. Jenkins / Git Certification in cloud technologies e.g. Kubernetes |
DE | |
| Masters | MBA/Msc | AA |
b. Experience
| Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required |
5 |
| Detail | Minimum No of Years | Need Type 5 |
| Experience developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications. | 2 | RQ |
| Experience in development in following technologies: Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX- RS), RESTand SOAP API, Java |
2 | DE |
| Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices, Understanding of Cloud infrastructure, JPA/JDBI, OpenShift. |
2 | AA |
| Experience in Banking Operations | 1 | RQ |
| Experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using various tools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository |
2 | DE |
| Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment. | 2 | DE |
About Us
KCB Group is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation, National Bank of Kenya, and all associated companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group’s capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group’s operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in the management of subsidiaries. Related documentation: Group Name Change, Name Change Certificate, KCB Advise on Non-Operating Holding Company, KCB Group Structure, Kenya Gazette Notice.
