Business Services & Solutions Department - Senior Application Developer at KCB Bank Kenya

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 

Particulars     Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 

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 
• Masters    MBA/Msc 

Experience

• Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required 5

Detail    Minimum No of Years  

• 2 years experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.  
• Experience in development in following technologies: Java 1.8+, Spring
• Framework, Apache
• 2 years experience in Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX- RS), RESTand SOAP API, Java 
• Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito,
• PowerMockito), Microservices,
• Understanding of Cloud infrastructure,
• 2 years experience in JPA/JDBI, OpenShift.
• 1 year experience in Banking Operations
• Experience in developing Continuous
• Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using various tools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and
• 2 years experience in Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository
• 2 years experience in working in a fast-paced agile environment.