Technical Lead – API and Microservices at Safaricom Kenya

DESCRIPTION

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital I.T Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Brief Description

Reporting to Senior Manager Digital Engineering, the position holder will be responsible for designing technology solutions that meet our business requirements and deliver the associated benefits. The role holder will be in charge of developing and growing relationships inside and outside the organization

Job Responsibilities

• Accountable for end to end micro-services and API strategy and roadmap with delivery as the main outcome
• Apply architecture and design principles consistently and holistically to enable target end to end usage scenarios
• Strong focus on DevOps use cases and workflows
• Developing and maintaining long term business domain knowledge
• Partner with architecture group to deliver solution blueprint and other UML base design documentation

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering /Information Technology/Systems (Computing) – operating systems, databases, software development;Electronic/Electrical Engineering/ Telecommunications or related subject
• 5 years java experience with hands on application delivery and usage J2EE design partners
• 3+ years of experience in microservices development using Java, JEE, spring, spring MVC, spring boot, MAVEN, spring cloud
• Experience developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing and CI/CD automation tools such as jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, Sonar, Qube etc