Jobs at Equity Bank Kenya

• To design, build, and maintain Frontend systems support Borrow’s digital lending loan journey. This role contributes directly to improving customer access to credit, streamlining loan lifecycle management, and integrating with key financial and regulatory systems, aligning with the company’s strategic goal of enabling inclusive, scalable, and secure financial services.

KEY responsibilities (DUTIES)

• Evaluate the business requirements and define technical requirements.
• Engage the business in understanding borrow product requirements.
• Liaise with architects, analysts, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions.
• Contribute to system architecture, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Support continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring practices.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices.
•  Implement front end journey for core lending features such as loan application, credit scoring, disbursement, repayment, and collections in various channels like Web, Android and iOS.
• Utilize Javascript, React to design, develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services.
• Collaborate with product managers, backend developers, DevOps, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. 

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE requirements

Professional Experience Levels 

• 8+ years of progressive experience, including system design, mentorship, and leadership in complex projects.

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To design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs that support Borrow’s digital lending Omni channels platform. This role contributes directly to improving customer access to credit, streamlining loan lifecycle management, and integrating with key financial and regulatory systems, aligning with the company’s strategic goal of enabling inclusive, scalable, and secure financial services.

 THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (DUTIES)

• Engage the business in understanding borrow product requirements.
• Evaluate the business requirements and define technical requirements.
• Liaise with architects, analysts, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions.
• Contribute to system architecture, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Support continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring practices.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Implement secure APIs and microservices for core lending features such as loan application, credit scoring, disbursement, repayment, and collections.
• Utilize C#, .NET to design, develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services.
• Collaborate with product managers, front-end developers, DevOps, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Implement security best practices (e.g., OAuth2, JWT) and ensure data protection

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Senior Developer: 8+ years of progressive experience, including system design, mentorship, and leadership in complex projects.

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The Commercial Legal Officer, reporting to the Manager Commercial Legal, serves as a vital member of the wider Group Legal Function. The role focuses on providing expert legal support to the Group Commercial Legal Department, managing intricate legal matters, facilitating contract negotiations, overseeing legal projects, and contributing significantly to Equity Group's overall legal risk management.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary liaison for internal business teams and subsidiary legal units, addressing their legal queries and concerns promptly and efficiently.
• Offer high-level legal assistance to the Commercial Legal department and various business units, ensuring legal compliance and strategic guidance.
• Manage intricate legal affairs, including but not limited to contract negotiations and dispute resolution, employing sharp legal acumen and negotiation skills.
• Spearhead legal projects, ensuring seamless execution, timely follow-ups, and transactional momentum, thereby contributing to the company’s strategic objectives.
• Contribute significantly to the development and implementation of robust legal risk management strategies and processes, safeguarding the company's interests and compliance requirements.
• Assist in creating and maintaining legal precedents, standard forms, and templates, ensuring consistency and accuracy in legal documentation.
• Support legal due diligence activities related to counterparties and undertake in-depth research, preparing comprehensive legal opinions that aid informed decision-making.
• Actively participate in knowledge management initiatives within the Group Legal Function, including organizing training sessions, creating legal precedents, researching, and implementing cutting-edge legal technology tools for enhanced operational efficiency.
• Stay updated with the latest changes in laws and regulations, disseminating pertinent information to the Group Legal Commercial team, ensuring the company's ongoing compliance.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsels and service providers, ensuring efficient collaboration and adherence to the company's standards.
• Assist in preparing detailed reports and status updates on various legal matters, ensuring transparency and clarity in communication.
• Administer the operational efficiency of the Group Legal team, streamlining processes, implementing best practices, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Undertake additional assignments as required by the General Manager Commercial Legal, demonstrating adaptability and a proactive approach to fulfilling the company's legal requirements.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Exceptional legal research and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Proficiency in legal project management and multitasking.
• Keen attention to detail and accuracy in legal documentation.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and independently when required.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum Five (5) years’ experience in a busy Corporate Organization or Commercial Law Firm
• Bachelor of Laws Degree from any recognized University
• Post Graduate Diploma in Law from Kenya School of Law
• Must be admitted to the Bar in Kenya for a minimum five (5) years.
• A master’s degree in Commercial or Corporate Law will be an added advantage.
• Previous experience in a Group set-up will be an added advantage.

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• The Product Security Architect will be responsible for designing and development of security control for the business Commercial, Fintech, and digital initiatives. He/ she will work closely with the various business team to understand the product and services and further recommend security controls for inclusion. The controls should be less business disruptive, enforce cyber control, reduce fraud and is frictionless with business objective.
• The Product Security Architect ensures existing and new business services and products have adequate security controls and conform to Equity Policies, procedures and standards.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Architecture:
• Formulate security specific requirements for business services for Commercial, Fintech, and digital initiatives
• Work closely with all the business teams to design and incorporate security as part of product development
• Work closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their technology domains architectures
• Work independently with developers, system/network administrators, product owners, and other colleagues to ensure secure design, development, and implementation of applications and networks
• Perform security design reviews of applications, systems, and networks
• Provide remediation guidance and recommendations to developers and administrators
• Define security best practices and standards, interpreter same to business and product owners
• Familiarity with common vulnerabilities and attack vectors
• Advise product and business owners on encryption technologies (PGP, SSH, SSL, etc.) and common authentication protocols (OpenID Connect, OAUTH, SAML, RADIUS, LDAP, KERBEROS, etc.)
• Leading and contributing to the security posture of Equity’s networks and systems, data centre infrastructures, cloud architectures and solutions
• Developing and/or carrying out the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy
• Strategy:
• Excellent understading of customer transaction flow of commercial and Fintech services
• Indeep understanding of social engineering weaknesses and countermeasures
• Understand B2C, B2B and C2C bsuness model in relation to security controls
• Ability to simplify analysis and present results clearly at all levels of the business - including at senior management team level

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience

• A Degree or its equivalent in Information Technology, Network Security, Enterprise Network Management, Information Security, Management Information System Computing, Engineering or similar area of study
• Relevant industry certifications in information security program and governance as well as PMP will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 2 years working in information security governance
• Minimum of 1 year working as a business analyst in technical security and IT
• Good understanding of business models and services in financial, telecom and FinTech domain
• Good understand of customer, merchant integration model
• An excellent team member who is analytical, logical and able to work with other Product team which are dedicated to making Equity products and technologies as secure as possible
• Experience with creating technical documentation: product documentation, technology, software and systems architecture, and technical whitepapers
• Working experience with the following concepts: SSL Crypto Solutions, Data Protection and Security, Software Development Methodologies (E.G. Agile), API Gateways, Data Analytics

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SOC Engineer works in the 24x7x365 Security Operations Center and uses technical knowledge on several security technologies to analyze and respond to security threats from various security platforms and technologies. This is a hands-on position, candidates must have strong experience of working in an Information Security operational role, with a strong understanding of several security domains such as Incident Response, Intrusion methods, Attack Monitoring, Networks, Threat and Vulnerability Management. The candidate must also have the communication and interpersonal skills required to persuade and influence business functions and technical teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Integration of various tools/components to improve current Security Infrastructure with Industry Best Practices
• Support, troubleshoot, configure, manage, and upgrade SIEM, NTA, AV, DLP, Email Security, VPN, WAF and a wide variety of other security products.
• Perform network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common network problems, using strong TCP/IP networking skills.
• Installation, setup / configuration, troubleshooting, Tuning, diagnostics, and maintenance of IT security related Equipment.
• Carry out proactive and reactive administration on Networking and associated applications Ensure adherence to process
• Respond to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance with managed devices.
• Respond in a timely manner (within documented SLA) to configuration, maintenance, incident management, and other requests.
• Document actions in ticketing system to effectively communicate information internally and to customers.
• Implement Policy Changes.
• Automation of Tasks to reduce manual operations.
• Troubleshoot L2/3 escalated issues and be a single point of contact for management of current security Infrastructure.
• Handle Network Security/Application Security/Security vulnerability management and Infrastructure risks
• Efficiently handles operations and analysis of Security Incidents.
• Design, implement, enhance, and manage Security Infrastructure.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

• Practical experience on configuration & management of Server, Network, Cloud, and Security Appliances
• Knowledge about WebApp security, vulnerabilities, and attacking methods
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills. Good Team player.
• Passionate and dedicated to pursuing a career in the Information Security field
• Ability to adapt towards dynamic environment.
• Should have ingenuity and strong problem-solving skills to swiftly and creatively deal with threats or flaws in networks or security tools.

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Job Purpose

• The Senior Group Operational Risk Manager role will support implementation of the Group Operational Risk Framework and operational risk strategy across Equity Group and its subsidiaries.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities/ Operational Efficiency:

• Ensure full compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain oversight and monitoring of the operational risk management system and the quality of the generated operational loss data.
• Conduct operational risk assessments to identify and evaluate risks and associated controls inherent to new and modified products, new and modified channels, new and modified services.
•  Analyse and challenge the self-assessment results conducted by the first line of defense.
• Perform both qualitative and quantitative monitoring and reporting of the Group’s exposure to all types of operational risk, including trend analysis of risk profiles and review of the limits of Operational risk regulatory and economic capital.
• Report and escalate operational risk events/incidents in a timely manner and monitor issue resolution to ensure timely responses are provided
• Compile operational risk reports, dashboards and metrics for management reporting.
• Undertake scenario analysis/assessment to identify potential operational losses and monitor operational risk profiles and material exposures to losses on an on-going basis.
• Promote positive risk culture and risk awareness across the Group by conduct training sessions on operational risk for staff, including content review and training delivery.
• Design, maintain and effectively communicate operational risk control parameters across the Group, including control standards, operational risk exposure limits and other control levers in order to maintain the Bank’s risk profile in line with the overall risk appetite.
• Challenge the completeness of risk identification, monitoring and control activities across Operational Risk Control Areas within the business & support functions and identify and address any significant gaps that may exist between them. 
• Recommend changes to the control environment or to business practice where necessary to reduce the level of operational risk exposure to within the agreed appetite.
• Provide balanced and informed assessment of operational risks arising from acquisitions and major change initiatives or Bank/Group projects.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• A master’s degree in business related field
• Relevant risk management certification e.g CRM, CRMP, CRISC, FRM among others.
• Prior experience in implementation of Operational Risk Managment Frameworks
• Relevant business/function experience of over ten years (Banking experience preferred).
• Experience in documenting, reviewing and enhancing operational risk policies and procedures
• A clear understanding of the BASEL approach to the management of operational risk.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization, leveraging resources across the organization to complete deliverables.
• Posess sound judgement and courage, necessary to perform a control role and maintain effective working relationship

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Job Purpose

The role of a frontend developer will be to create well-written web applications in React, Vue, TypeScript, HTML and CSS using the most up-to-date technologies. We are looking for a developer responsible for the client-side of our services. The primary focus for this role will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a Supper App Mini-Apps, mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on Digital financial service Mini Apps.

Responsibilities/ Accountabilities

• Delivering a complete front-end application
• Deliver Mini-apps for DFS super app
• Work with the backend developer to define RESTful API Specification
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and component
• Participating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results

Personal Attributes

• Must be able and willing to collaborate in a team/cooperative environment as well as exercise independent judgment and initiative.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Is extremely logical, detail oriented with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and meet multiple project deadlines.
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
• Highly self-motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures.
• Structured thinker, effective communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years’ experience developing web applications
• 3+ years’ experience building frontend applications in React, and TypeScript.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, and JavaScript (React and Vue).
• Experience with CI/CD
• Familiarity with VSCode
• Experience with OAuth and JWT Tokens
• Experience with GraphQL

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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Sr. Business Analyst. In this supervisory capacity, you will lead a team of Sr. Business Analysts and work closely with project sponsors, stakeholders, and project teams to gather, analyze and prioritize requirements for various IT projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership capabilities, exceptional communication skills, and a comprehensive understanding of both business processes and IT solutions. The Sr. Business Analyst will proactively explore emerging technologies to optimize business processes. Play a critical role in ensuring IT's alignment with business requirements. The Sr. Business Analyst acts as a liaison between specific business units or subsidiaries and IT services, coordinating operational activities to maximize the value provided by systems to the respective business unit or subsidiary.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision 
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics 
• Coordinate requirements elicitation sessions via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, etc. 
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods 
• Identify and establish scope parameters of requirements analysis on a project-byproject basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics 
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize elicited requirements 
• Maintain an understanding of business processes and their IT needs 
• Maintain an awareness of current and emerging technologies 
• Identify opportunities where business objectives can be met by using IT 
• Develop and manage relationships with business and subsidiary management and assist all levels within the business area to define their overall business requirements 
• Monitor specific functionality build, ensuring requirements, budget and calendar are adhered to. 
• Support on acceptance and user testing 
• Voice concerns and/or satisfaction on the user community with IT Service effectively creating a continuous improvement circle

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or ICT related discipline from a recognized university
• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) is a plus. 

Experience:

• Minimum 3+ years as a Business Analyst or Process Analyst