Senior Manager, Java Development at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

• The Senior Manager, Java Development role is to plan, organize, and manage staff and overall operations that facilitate the stable operation of the bank’s APIs. This includes managing a Java development team in developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing the APIs and any integrations to third-party systems. The role delivers business strategy by making information flow through various Bank Systems.
• In collaboration with external vendors, system experts, and information security experts, the Senior Manager, Java Development will schedule and direct activities to implement business changes in the APIs and resolve service problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
• The role requires prototyping skills, excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to guide and lead an agile team, to manage competing priorities, design solutions as part of a larger roadmap, and to be hands-on in supporting implemented technologies as well as new technologies.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

API Development (60%):

• Manage and set priorities for design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of APIs.
• Manage Service Agreements with vendors, Budgets, and Supplier Contracts.

Service Management (20%):

• Provide leadership and management oversight for the API development to ensure projects, problems, service requests, and escalations are dealt with according to defined set of policies, processes, procedures, and SLA's.

IT Application Security and Governance (5%):

• Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the API development (systems, people, policy, controls, and procedures) with regard to protection against exposure to and impact of risks associated with data loss, corruption, and/or unauthorized access.

Business Continuity Management (5%):

• Provide and execute detailed Disaster recovery plans and procedures for API banking and other critical business applications.

 People Leadership (10%):

• Provide effective leadership to the Java development unit, ensuring competency development, succession planning, and conducting performance appraisals.

Job Specifications

• University degree in computer science. Master’s degree would be an added advantage.
• ITIL Intermediate and other relevant professional qualifications in ICT field.
• Project Management Certification: PMI or Prince 2
• Experience working with RDMS – Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL
• Six years’ experience in API Design and Development in medium to large organizations.
• Three years in a supervisory role.
• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization.
• Experience in Management of Support Contracts, RFP’s, and Third-party support providers.
• Experience working with T24 core banking system will be an added advantage.

Technical Competencies:

• Knowledge and experience in modern practices for IT Applications architecture and operations in medium to large banks to provide guidance on quality improvements and problem management.
• Technical skills to effectively perform or guide performance of Application architectural design ensuring that all solutions developed and deployed are in line with the Enterprise Architecture standards.
• Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures, and guidelines to consistently achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.
• Ensure that all the managed application platforms in use by the Bank keep pace with technological innovations and developments as a way of protecting investment in technology.
• Define, analyze, plan, measure, and improve all aspects of the availability of Application services; ensuring that all Applications systems, processes, tools, and roles are meeting the agreed availability targets.