Jobs at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Reference No TA/12/MJIK

Description

• Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits, and opportunities of IT solutions. Understand the bigger picture and assess all smaller technical components and solutions as a coherent part of the whole infrastructure 
• Documentation of business requirements and processes for business initiatives and projects.
• Build a holistic view of the Bank’s strategy, processes, information, and IT assets and ensuring the business and IT requirements are aligned 
• Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Designs complex systems in the Bank when required at the component level, make strategic technology choices, and directly supervise the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components. 
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects 
• Develop and maintain the Bank’s technology service catalogue with continuous assessment of applications fitness to fulfill their purpose to the Enterprise
• Lead in technology capacity management assessment and provide guidance on how best to close the identified gaps
• Support in developing the framework for IT asset management while providing guidance on how best to close the identified gaps
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning, and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables and mapping to infrastructure needs. 
• Lead in proactive management and reduction of technical debt (e.g. systems/components, tool proliferation, aging technologies) across all the technology domains.
• Stay updated on the latest trends/ technologies for cloud enablement and Platform as a Service and evaluate the platform capabilities vis -à-vis the trends; plan the roadmaps to incorporate the required functionality into the Bank infrastructure. 
• Provides knowledge leadership in relevant research areas, technology tools & standards and architectural governance.  
• Provides guidance to project teams regarding guiding principles, system and application design, standards, best practices, and system performance and availability 
• Support / participate in acquisition of large projects by providing technical input and guidance on aspects of technology.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study from a recognized university.

More Details on Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Information Technology with experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services, and SOA). At least 3 years’ experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization, and leading formal enterprise architecture framework

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Reference No SA/10/MJIK

Summary

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for leading the design, development and deployment of large-scale complex software solutions at an enterprise level. These applications are often high-volume mission critical systems and will provide an exposure to a broad range of technologies across all layers of architecture in JAVA, Redhat Integrations, Cloud and DevOps practice.

He/She will work independently or collaborate with teams across the development organisation to understand the functional requirements and translate them into shippable products. In addition, he/she will be a technical lead in many projects and a thought leader in the integrations and software development practice.

Description

• Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration ttechnologies and tools to drive business.
• Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to aanalyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
• Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project
• Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
• Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
• Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and
• Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.

Education

• University degree from a recognized institution.

More Details on Experience

• 5 years Technology experience with at least 2 years’ experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.
• Application development experience using any of the following technologies: 
  Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX-RS), REST and SOAP API, Java Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices, JPA/JDBI, Openshift. 

More Details on Skills

• A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure & continuous integration tools such as GIT, Jenkins, XLR.
• Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.