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Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance.
Job Summary
Lead the agile solution design, deployment & ongoing optimization & evolution of enterprise wide technology products and services (full stack engineering & ownership / control) in low complexity environments.
Job Description
The Digital Solutions Head will lead the organization to design, implement and deliver on the Company’s Digital Strategy.
The Digital Solutions Head will be responsible for the design and implementation of processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery. Maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across Teams.
This role is responsible for the development, delivery and operations of Absa Kenya assets which include but are not limited to web apps, mobile apps, USSD apps, platforms powering Banking, Insurance & Wealth as a Service.
The role is also responsible for providing steer in on digital offerings viability, design, and execution. The role is expected to engage with senior business stakeholders and ensure alignment on delivery expectations primarily focusing on maturing digital platforms that create an environment that facilitates continuous integration and delivery of digital products & services.
Key Accountabilities.
- Establish a delivery strategy that incorporates speed and agility.
- Lead the team that will drive design, development and approval of digital applications, platforms, products and services for Absa Kenya.
- Responsible for automating build, release, deployment and configuration activities.
- Work closely with software, QA and system engineers to understand requirements and prototype, architect, implement & operate and update DevOps solutions accordingly.
- Work and partner with external approved external vendors and suppliers to deliver appropriate technical solutions in line with the company’s Digital Strategy.
- Establish a portfolio of DevOps processes, practices, and tools to empower and support delivery teams in continuous deployment, continuous integration and rapid delivery across value streams.
- Create and implement automation and orchestration tools with Infrastructure teams & cloud providers.
- Full responsibility for migration and upgrading to new releases.
Core competencies, knowledge & experience
- Platform mindset, Agile, SAFe, Kanban.
- Good understanding of operational processes in the Technology industry
- Infrastructure automation and configuration management tools e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt.
- Continuous Integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
- Production – readiness assessment of modules and supporting systems.
- Expertise with at least two or more programming languages (e.g. PHP, Java)
- Database technologies – RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle and NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, Spark, Redis, Mongo etc.
Must have technology & professional qualifications:
- Strong technological background with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications or the equivalent. Delivery leadership exposure preferably via Agile based methodologies.
- Working experience as a Technology leader, focusing on Digital deliveries. Foundational experience in a DevOps Capacity, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering or the equivalent preferred. Experience delivering within a Multi Nationals or Multi Market environment.
Key performance indicators:
- Deployment Frequency: The ability to make code changes in a expeditiously with a safe secure environment in order to provide customers new features & respond to shifts in behaviour.
- Speed of deployment, achieving at least 95% of tasks on time.
- Deployment success rate – 100% success rate.
- Time to recovery: services restored within SLA.
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