Application Developer at Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)

Department:  Corporate Support Services (CSS)

Division:    Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Job Summary:

• The job holder is responsible for Development, Maintenance and Support of new systems or existing  business Systems

Key Responsibilities: 

• Review business use cases
• Develop system use cases and system design specifications
• Develops new or enhance existing systems components including internal and external integrations based on agreed requirements.
• Develops standard and adhoc reports and data management scripts as requested.
• Ensures that the approved coding standards are consistently applied in every component developed
• Conducts unit testing of developed components based on agreed quality criteria.
• Prepare documentations (User manuals, Technical manuals, deployment instructions, roll back instructions, Issue and Tickets Logs etc) to ensure that they meet set quality criteria for each component.
• Should be able to package the various components of the solutions being developed.
• Participates in quality review meetings for the system
• Provide guidance to the technical teams.
• Adhere to change control procedures for the systems
• Provide support for post deployment application issues
• Fix systems issues reported through a controlled process.
• Resolves issues arising from Quality Assurance (QA) tests.
• Prepares progress status reports as guided.
• Participate in software quality assurance (UAT) of the software releases.
• Participate in monitoring the application and integrations
• Participate in software cost or effort estimation exercises
• Develop software solutions using J2EE Technologies
• Optimize database queries
• Develop Database Procedures and Packages
• Any assignment given as and when directed by management

Academic Qualifications       

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other related field.

Professional Qualifications    

Required Training/knowledge in the following :

• Database Development or Administration training i.e. Oracle or PostgreSQL
• Training in Application Development languages i.e. Java, JavaScript, VBScript
• Training in Application and Web servers namely: JBOSS & Tomcat
• Training in business systems analysis techniques and tools: e.g. Enterprise Architect.
• Training in Application Development tools/IDEs: - Eclipse, MyEclipse, NetBeans
• Database Development or Administration training i.e. MySQL, MS SQL
• Training in Systems modeling and design techniques
• Training in Operating systems namely Linux, Red Hat, Unix
• Knowledge on some software packaging tools e.g. Ant
• Knowledge on software life cycle tools e.g. HP Load Runner
• Training and working knowledge of reports generation tools and data management tools e.g. Jaspersoft, Crystal Reports
• Training on Spring  development Frameworks
• Source code repository and management tools e.g. SVN

Relevant Work Experience Required

• At least 1 year work experience in a busy application development and support environment

Skills Required:         

• Team player
• Results oriented
• Innovative
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Analytical skills
• Organizational skills
• Planning Skills
• Documentation and report writing skills
• Problem solving skills
• Negotiation skills