Jobs at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

• The role of the manager, server and storage is to evaluate, implement and support the IT Infrastructure in line with Bank’s Vision, ensuring infrastructure is available for the business continuity as well as manage data centre operations according to SLAs. The role is also responsible for operational activities related to virtual environments, daily backup/restoration activities, BCP, and SAN storage infrastructure management. The position also closely works with the Information security team to support on strategic initiatives related to planning and implementing policies and procedures to ensure servers/storage efficiency, capacity management performance, and related controls.

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:

•  Bachelor of Computer Science degree or any other IT related field

Professional:

•  ITIL
•  MCSE
•  RHEL
•  VMware
•  Server & Storage Administration Training.
•  Backup Solution training (veritas, commvault)

Desired work experience:

•  6 years working experience

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Job Purpose Statement

• Enterprise Data Management ("EDM”) is a process that seeks to ensure Data in NCBA Group PLC is accurate and consistent to meet the strategic and business goals. "EDM" has eight key capabilities
  • Data Architecture (DA);
  • Data retention & archiving (DRA);
  • Data quality management (DQM);
  • Metadata management ("MM");
  • Master data Management (MDM);
  • Data privacy & security (DPS)
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics (BIA) and viii) Data governance.
• This role will drive management of the Master Data strategy that brings together the fundamental business data building blocks that are shared across multiple business transactions, e.g. T-24 captures and generates data becomes a I MDM asset', that is used in other systems such as customer management system (CRM), SAP -Bl regulatory reporting. This role owns and delivers on the Master Data & Data Quality Management strategy and reports into the Chief Data Officer, CDO.
• The Data Quality Lead is a senior management role tasked with providing leadership and overseeing the following administrative and operational functions within the data management office and group:
  • Master Data Management: this function is responsible for Master data management (MDM), a process and technology-enabled discipline in which business and IT work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official shared master data assets.
  • Data Quality Management: is the capability to appropriately design data quality requirements across the business data domains, diagnose data quality issues, correct them and monitor the solution effectiveness.
• At its core, the role involves supporting the CDO and other team leaders in implementing the Enterprise Data Management Framework in regards to Master Data & Data Quality Strategies, drive strategic performance in order to achieve strategic results that is, Data is seen as a Strategic Asset at NCBA Group PLC and creates sustainable stakeholder value.

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:

•  Bachelors in Computer Science, Finance & Banking MIS, or Information Management, operations management
•  Masters or diploma in data management/data science, will be an added advantage

Professional:

•  Hands on experience in Database Development and scripting, with expert level skills in writing SQL queries.
•  Hands on experience in developing ETL packages using Oracle DI, SQL Server Integration Services, SAP Data Services
•  Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (XML/XPath/XQuery and JSON)
•  Excellent analytical, problem solving and reporting skills
•  A good knowledge of the information requirements and standard reporting within Financial Services industry

Desired work experience:

• Minimum 8 years' experience in IT systems development within a large, digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 5 of those years within BI development and/or support.

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Job Purpose Statement

• Responsible for defining and implementing the build, deployment and monitoring standards for the bank. Working as part of Agile development teams to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment as well as on premise.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology; Create scripts and/or templates to automate and/or bootstrap infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Working closely with the development team to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines.
• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution;
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks as well as contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
• This is a technical role that is responsible for the testing, evaluating and approving of quality, functional and non-functional, requirements for new and existing software.
• The role holder will be responsible for developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. The position requires proven working experience in Testing Development and hand-on Software Development Lifecycle and Software Testing Lifecycle experience.
• This is a role that requires excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work as part of an agile team, to manage competing priorities and ensure that quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.

Ideal Job Specifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. A
• Master’s degree in Technology or Business-related course is an added advantage
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within software testing
• Experience in Core Banking Software Design and Development preferably T24 will be an added advantage.
• Hands on experience in DevOps is required.
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Cucumber, Concordion, Selenium, Appium, Robotium, SoapUI, Jmeter
• Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2
• Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java, Kotlin,
• C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and MS SQL etc.
• Strong understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard methodologies.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix commands and SQL will be required.
• Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP,
• XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• A good knowledge of the systems and processes within Financial Services industry
• Issue/bug tracking tools e.g. TestRail, JIRA
• Use of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab CI/Jenkins
• Testing Automation