Openings at Asante Financial Services Group

Job objective

Business analyst will report directly to the Chief Digital Officer. You'll be responsible for conducting market analysis, analyzing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business. In addition, you will develop and monitor data quality metrics to ensure business data and reporting needs are met.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of the technical development projects, starting from discovery to UAT and production.
• Perform analysis and record the business processes, platforms and tools for fintech player.
• Elaborate business requirements, create artefacts and store in Requirements Catalogue – business requirements, functional designs, user stories, process workflow and data diagrams, etc.
• Participate in the workshops and working sessions with business and technical teams.
• Collaborate together with CDO/Architect, developers and QAs/testers.
• Support scrum team as a Business Analyst and sometimes like a Product Owner.
• Prepare technical development specifications and plans for sprints, support demos and UATs.
• Write documentation, presentations, hands-on materials, user trainings, make research.
• Prepare and participate in retrospectives, internal knowledge sharing programs.

Skills and qualification

• Bachelors degree in IT or related field
• 3+ years of Business Analysis experience in software delivery.
• Knowledge of back-end, front-end, mobile app development disciplines and stages.
• Business knowledge of fintech/ banking/ loans/lending domain is a plus.
• Good understanding of business goals, collection of Business Requirements is a must.
• Understanding of software development life cycle and different development methodologies, knowledge of the stages and processes of software development.
• Experience in writing technical requirements for integration tasks, defining scope and tasks for developing backend, APIs and frontend.
• Business Analysis and Technical noting skills (business requirements gathering, process/data modelling, integration mapping, writing technical specifications for design and development)
• Experience with tools for Business process definition and business process modelling using notations like UML, BPMN, IDEF is a plus.
• Ability to work independently as well as work with business and technical teams.
• Customer Experience modelling and User Stories sketching skills and relevant experience.
• Experience in communication with international customers is an advantage.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience is a plus.
• Experience working with Atlassian Jira and Confluence is a plus.

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Job Objective

We are searching for a decisive and perceptive DevOps engineer to join our friendly FinTech company. The DevOps engineer will be involved in various stages of each product's lifespan and should remain well informed of technological advancements to promote operational and technical efficiency and quality. Ultimately, a strong DevOps engineer who can demonstrate excellent leading and team collaboration skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Defining and improving the cloud architecture for performance, security and usability
• Implementing, maintaining, monitoring and supporting the cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Collecting and reviewing business and operations requirements to enhance overall experience
• Working with multiple vendors on scalable cloud infrastructure and security solutions
• Collaborate with all teams to conceptualize, develop, and release software versions
• Scheduling and Deploying releases, fixes, patches and updates, as required and planned
• Securing our environments to prevent security breaches, attacks and other vulnerabilities
• Documenting and maintaining the configuration management and environment settings
• Suggesting alterations to release workflow in order to improve efficiency, quality and success
• Bringing ideas for ops optimization based on gaps in the market and technological advancements
• Providing and maintaining the service quality monitoring and systems management solutions
• Designing procedures for system and network troubleshooting and maintenance
• Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates and fixes, provide Level2 support
• Implementing automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)
• Implementing of automated backup/ restore/ failover/ load balancing solutions over cloud

Skills and qualification

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices and Agile Scrum development disciplines
• Prior experience as a DevOps engineer, Cloud/Infrastructure Manager
• Prior experience at all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to release and also end of life of the software products
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, products, their DevOps dashboard console, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Sentry, SQL databases management
• System administration and scripting for Linux infrastructure
• Experience with Version Control, Release Management and Deployment (GitHub, CI/CD) tools
• Knowledge of systems and platforms security features, implementing security disciplines
• Good problem-solving, troubleshooting skills and attention to detail
• Experience using an array of automation tools and environment management tools
• Proven familiarity with infrastructure security and code security, source protection methods
• Demonstrated experience using scripting languages including Perl, Python, JavaScript and Java
• Strong decision-making and collaborative capabilities, team leadership and collaboration
• Business-oriented with the ability to receive and use constructive criticism

Experience of the following technologies and concepts is a plus (Optional)

• Scripting Languages: Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby
• Amazon Web Services: IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda
• Amazon Web Managed Products: EC2, ECS, ECR, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift
• Infrastructure-As-A-Code: Ansible, Azure, CFEngine, Chef, Cloudformation, Docker, Juju, NixOS, Puppet, (R)ex, SaltStack, Sensu, Terraform, Vagrant
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Cloudformation, Pipeline, Jenkins, SaltStack, Terraform
• Version control and code storage platforms: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
• Containerising & Clustering: Compose, Docker, Dockerfiles, ECS, Helm, Kubernetes, Nginx, Vagrant
• CI/CD Implementation: AppVeyor, Circle CI, Drone, GitLab, Jenkins, Mule, Spinnaker, TravisCI
• Networking concepts: Firewalls, NAT, Port, Subnetting, VPC, VPNs, Dymanic IP/DNS
• Open Source Relational Database: Cassandra, CouchDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, RDBMS, Redis, RethinkDB, SQLite, Timescale

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Job Objective

We are looking for a skilled mobile developer with prior developing experience to create and maintain mobile applications for Android, iOS, and Web-based ones for Windows devices. The Front End Developer's responsibilities include researching UI and UX trends, supporting and updating current applications, and working with product and technical colleagues to bring innovative ideas for new application releases.

To be successful as a mobile developer you must combine your development experience with knowledge of end user story flow modelling, UI and UX with insight into the latest technologies and designs in Digital Banking Front End applications.

Key responsibilities

• Build, deploy and maintain robust mobile apps to Android/ iOS/ Web platforms using a single Flutter codebase for Loans/Microfinancing app
• Design, build, test and implement new app digital banking modules based on the product requirements using Flutter framework
• Write readable and clear code that will be extensively documented for future use and upgrades
• Maintain existing codebase and versions control
• Build well-documented and commented code and code libraries for future re-use
• Integrate various APIs from internal systems and third parties
• Participate in software architecture, design discussions and code reviews
• Optimize application code for pre-checks, maximum performance, speed and scalability
• Debug existing apps components, conduct tests, fix issues and minimize regression
• Share feedback and brainstorm ideas with teams to improve the development process
• Contribute in peer unit tests, SIT tests, UI tests and UAT tests
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and approaches for modern mobile applications
• Integrate user-interface elements developed by other developers
• Build user interfaces based on designs and specifications
• Collaborate closely with the teams Business Analyst, PMs, QAs, and other developers
• Contribute, build and follow development guidelines and best practices, do retrospectives

Skills and qualification

• Degree in computer science, engineering, software development or information systems
• Proven 2+ years experience coding with Flutter framework
• Proficient 3+ years experience in mobile development Android or iOS using native and cross-platform coding languages for Android, iOS and Windows
• Proven working experience in front end development with demonstrable portfolio of one or more mobile apps in Google Play and App Store or in GitHub, ideally developed using Flutter framework
• Ability to write readable well-commented code, create good documentation for existing code, and refactor the previously written code into readable and stable re-usable condition
• Solid understanding of the Scrum project management and Agile software development life cycle, including automated testing and building
• Experience of coding with third-party libraries and APIs, connecting remote data via REST and JSON
• Working knowledge of the mobile landscape, architectures, development and design trends
• Proficient understanding of code version control tools, such as Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins
• Comfortable using test cases and test scripts for debugging code, troubleshooting, enhancing performance and reliability of the front end app. Experience with automated testing is a plus
• Experience of front end tech stacks like HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript flavors
• Experience of object oriented coding languages like Java and C++
• Problem-solving, critical thinking and communication skills, ability to multitask
• Positive working attitude, strong interpersonal, team communication and collaboration skills

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Job Objective

We are looking to hire a skilled Web Designer and WordPress/CMS developer to design and implement attractive and functional website and clients web portal. You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress themes and plugins as well as site integration with other platforms. To be a successful WordPress developer, you should have a good knowledge of web design, front-end programming languages, good eye for design usability and aesthetics, and content management skills.

As a WordPress developer you will be able to create and continue ongoing design and development of an attractive, user-friendly website that perfectly meet the design and functional specifications

Key responsibilities

• Conduct all phases of the web design and development, starting from market comparison, functional requirements collection
• Participate in the workshops and working sessions with business and technical teams, discuss website design and functions, manage the collection of functional business requirements and change requests
• Build the website architecture, design, conduct the development, testing, production and support
• Conduct all phases of building the Content Management System, based on WordPress and plug-ins in order to create, maintain the content and upload it to website and social and business networks
• Build Client Self-help Web portal and connection to back-end systems and databases
• Work with mobile front-end developers in order to build end user web version of the Asante front end application
• Conduct WordPress ad-hoc help and basic training for marketing team
• Collaborate effectively with the rest of Digital Team, CIO, project managers, business analyst, developers and QAs/testers
• Organise support and maintenance of website, CMS, web portal and end user web interface, troubleshoot content issues, monitor the performance and stability of live website
• Prepare and participate in website performance and security testing, and in retrospectives

Skills and qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software/web development or a similar technical or digital marketing field
• 2+ years of web design and web development
• Proven WordPress web and CMS development experience
• Use of WordPress themes and plug-ins
• Knowledge and use of front-end development technologies including HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript flavours (Angular, React, Vue)
• Experience of working with web debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug
• Good understanding of website architecture and web design user experience and aesthetics
• Ability to manage own projects and tasks
• Good communication and team cooperation skills

Nice to have / Optional

• Experience in Building digital marketing framework for indexing, adverts, SEO, ASO, and click-through funnel tracking of prospective users from first click and registration down to first transaction
• Understanding of REST API, Web API technologies
• Bootstrap / Material design