Tech Lead - API & Microservices at Safaricom Kenya

Brief Description 

Reporting to the Software Engineering Lead, the role holder will be responsible for driving digital transformation with end-to-end responsibility within IT to provide technical leadership in driving delivery of all backend services and architecture implementing evolutionary modern architectures for building superior customer products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving digital transformation with end-to-end responsibility within IT to provide technical leadership in driving delivery of all backend services and architecture implementing evolutionary modern architectures for building superior customer products.
• Owning, leading, and driving software engineering practices across all Safaricom backend software engineering delivery teams. 
• Providing expert knowledge of prototype creation, module and solution design and development using agile methodologies, and continuous testing to enable target business capabilities / user journeys.
• Create, lead, manage, mentor and coach software engineers across the delivery organization, ensuring the quality software development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated practice members.
• Use of data insights to drive evolution of the backend software engineering and delivery of excellent customer. 
• Work closely with all organization security and risk groups and solution architects to 
• Make sure security is a high priority in digital applications development in digital channels and backend systems.
• Design and deploy the implementation of the network and computer security in the organization supporting digital channels and backend systems.
• Understand the company's technology, and information systems application security policies and standards and drive implementation on the digital channels and backend systems.
• Plan vulnerability testing, risk analysis, and security audits on the digital channels and backend systems.
• Define set of rules, policies, standards, and models that govern quality backend engineering within Safaricom as a practice.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software architecture in backend systems.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• 7+ years of working experience in backend software engineering.
• Proficiency in a modern coding language such as: Java and C#.
• Must be have experience in developing and implementing algorithms. 
• Proficiency in managing backend infrastructure systems such as databases and caching platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD solutions and DevSecOps principles
• Communicates and conveys complex technical details to all audiences.
• Proven development experience on AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly
• Development experience in agile teams; strong product development and collaboration skills.
• You can create compelling and articulate arguments to Senior Leadership when presenting or negotiating on projects.
• Develop an enterprise wide technical strategy to effectively adopt technologies related to backend engineering