Backend Engineer at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

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

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Design and Develop, and continuously improve, of the Bank’s Integration Platforms (ESB and SOA)
• Enforce internal policies and procedures for the management of Software Applications along ITIL and other best practices.
• Provide expert guidance on 2nd level escalations on the bank’s Integration Platforms to the team’s running the IT platforms on a day-to-day basis
• Apply knowledge of key technologies/concepts/platforms e.g. Oracle SOA and Java.
• Ensure availability of services within the agreed SLAs.
• Work with business and product development to develop functional and technical requirements and propose solutions to address these requirements.
• Effective management of relationships and protocols with 3rd party partners involved in service delivery.
• Provide general technical advice and guidance to users and stakeholders regarding Software Applications developed in house.
• Make efficient use of source control and bug tracking systems
• Ensure that all the assigned bank information technology 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 Integration Projects within agreed time constraints.
• Provide input into the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plan and Data Security Plan for the Integration Platforms in order to guarantee continuation of services at all times.
• Performs research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to optimize the platform.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability

Job Specifications

• 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 5 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within systems integration
• Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2
• Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java, Kotlin, C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and MS SQL etc.
• Strong hands-on experience in Oracle SOA suite including BPEL, Human Workflow, Business rules, BAM, Mediator, Oracle Adapters, OSB, JDeveloper, WebLogic Application server, and Oracle Database.
• Strong understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard methodologies.
• Experience in creating technical designs, deployment related artifacts.
• Ability to Develop, Unit test and fix defects raised during testing phases
• Deep  understanding of industry    standard formats  and protocols (JMS, SOAP, XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)