Latest Recruitment at KCB Bank Kenya

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Define, document, and implement software security policy, secure coding practices and guidelines for the bank in line with industry best practices and technologies commensurate with risk and regulatory requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain a software security assurance framework which that shall guide information security team in security and risk assessments of applications, as well as provide security requirements for developers and third parties to adhere to.
• Lead Information Security involvement in all software and application implementation projects and scrum teams to ensure all applications and changes meet set information security requirements before introduction to production environments.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Business Services & Solutions teams to identify application/software security improvements and plug-in identified security controls in DevOps tools.
• Perform and coordinate regular trainings on secure coding, software security and application security practices for the development and other KCB technology teams at regular intervals.
• Collaborate in the continuous monitoring and defense of the Bank’s critical applications, such as core banking, and digital channels, for cybersecurity threat indicators; report on violations and security measures taken to address threats.
• Identify, integrate, and maintain security tools, such as SAST and DAST tools (Static/Dynamic Application Security Testing), standards, and processes into the software development or product life cycle (SDLC / PLC), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in performing risk assessments for business solutions for inherent security risks and provide recommendations for addressing such risks.
• Define, create, and deliver software/application security compliance reports and relevant metrics to the Bank’s Senior Management.
• Protects the bank’s applications and systems by defining access privileges and other security control structures.

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 
Education 

• BSc. Information Technology / Computer Science / Telecommunications / Engineering (Electrical, Electronic) RQ

 Professional Qualifications    

• CDP: Certified DevSecOps Professional
• CSSLP: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
• CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
• CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
• CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional1 RQ
• Master’s Degree    MBA/MSc    AA

Experience:

Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required     

•  5 years

Detail   Minimum No of Years 

• Experience in Information Security  2 ES 
• Strong Application Security 
• knowledge, experience within Secure SDLC and DevSecOps 1 ES 
• Experience in Banking Operations  1 ES 
• Experience in Project Implementation and user training   1 DE 

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement the change management framework and processes, and support business units to ensure compliance in implementing change initiative.
• Develop appropriate Change Management metrics that will measure the effectiveness of the Bank’s Change initiatives.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners on issues pertinent to organizational effectiveness and change management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including the Strategy Function to ensure the business case for change is clearly defined and documented.
• Deliver timely change management strategies to sustain high levels of employee engagement and commitment to new initiatives.
• Ensure adoption of change initiatives and new ways of working across the Group, benefits realization, value creation, ROI and the achievement of desired outcomes.
• Manage, coordinate and track organizational culture programmes and initiatives. 
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners in supporting divisions, regions and branches to embed culture programmes.
• Coordinate the implementation of Organization Health Index (OHI) Surveys in liaison with HR Business Partners and Business Units, cascade results, develop action plans and track successful implementation to enhance employee experience and improvement of work environment.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

The preferred candidate will meet the following minimum criteria:

• Have a Bachelor's Degree in a Business-related field from a recognized university. A Master's degree will be an added advantage.
• Certification in Human Resource such as CHRP or Change Management Certification. 
• At least 6 years work experience in HR Change Management and Organizational Culture Management.
• Experience in Project Management.
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Change Management initiatives.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• To create, maintain and communicate Change management strategies and policies. Ensuring all stakeholders across the Bank are well versed on the change management process and understand their responsibilities.
• Responsible for end to end deployment and implementation of approved changes.
• Ensure governance of the Change Management Policy and procedures through continuous reporting, training and education.
• To define and measure success metrics and monitor change process & problems. Highlight areas for improvement through continual service improvement program, working with key stakeholders and identifying trends through reporting.
• Lead and coordinate Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and activities.
• Provide assurance on risk mitigation and minimize the impact of change related events by chairing of regular Change Management meetings with Application, Development, Infrastructure and Business areas and any other stakeholder. 
• Responsible for day-to-day oversight and management of changes within the change management process. Ensuring changes are moved through the lifecycle and the necessary assessment/approval is carried out.
• Develop ways and means to optimize the change delivery pipeline providing stakeholder visibility and ensuring efficient delivery.
• Monitor and Manage IT Change Demand pipeline ensuring constraints are identified and flagged for action by relevant owners. 
• Maintain a release plan for changes while ensuring stakeholder alignment
• Lead the division in entrenching Agile Change delivery.
• Lead the division in monitoring the performance of change against expected benefits.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Ensuring assigned Problems are resolved within their SLA.
• Updating and management of the Known Error Database (KEDB)
• Recording, managing, and advancing the problem by escalating to an elevated level of expertise, if appropriate, by integrating with change management, incident management, and configuration management. 
• Coordinating major Problem review
• Working with the Senior Manager Continual Service Improvement and Cross functional teams to identifying underlying causes of incidents and preventing recurrences.
• Preparing change requests for the Senior Manager to eliminate known problems.
• Minimizing the impact of unavoidable incidents.
• Making temporary solutions (workarounds) available to incident management.
• Ensure development of final solutions for known errors.
• Analyze current technology practices to recommend solution to enhance efficiency, improve workflow, and/or solve problems before they occur.

Academic & Professional

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree IT/Engineering    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ITIL Course, Project Management    RQ     
• Masters Degree    MBA or MSC    AA     

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required    

• 4 years

Detail    Minimum No of Years    Need Type[1]

• I.T Management    2    ES
• Problem Management/ Continual Service Improvement)    1    ES
• Incident Management    1    ES
• Project Management/Service Management Tools     1    DE
   

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure business retention by daily monitoring of expiring policies, ensuring advance renewal engagements, giving relevant advice or seeking required support and timely reporting.
• Responsible for business performance and delivery of set targets.
• Develop and implement strategies to drive more Corporate insurance business including through up sales and cross sales.
• Leverage key marketing initiatives being undertaken by the Corporate RMs and the Agency while working closely with the RMs to spot and seize insurance business opportunities.
• Support in training all stakeholders and expend appropriate knowledge in identification of insurance opportunities from the Bank’s insurance registers.
• Responsible for timely collection of realized premiums and ensure debt levels are kept within set levels.
• Manage the day to day insurance operations at the Corporate division including timely booking, ensuring placement among others.
• Efficiently and effectively resolve all insurance inquiries/issues from clients and Corporate team
• Share and discuss all related reports with different stakeholders periodically and as and when required.

Academic & Professional

Education  

• Bachelor’s Degree    Business related field    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    Progress in Insurance qualifications (COP/IIK/CII)    RQ
• Postgraduate Marketing/Sales qualifications    Marketing and sales    AA

Experience

• Business development, Marketing, Sales or a technical role from a reputable insurance player preferrable Bancassurance or Brokerage

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Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates (with) persons (HR Business Partners /Senior Advisors, other Resourcing Managers, line interviewers, candidates) involved in the resource planning and or recruitment and selection processes. 
• Develop and execute annual manpower, recruitment and selection plans and budgets relating to HR area. 
• Support line management / HR Business Partners/ Senior HR Advisors with the job analysis process (preparation of assessment tools, determination of ranking methods, definitions of specialized experience and selective placement factors that will increase the likelihood that qualification expectations will be responsibly met) 
• Prepare and document evaluation criteria, assessments, and questionnaires. 
• Prepare and post Job Announcements, determine eligibility and minimum qualifications of applicants based on defined competencies and criteria. 
• Screen, shortlist, rate and rank qualified applicants in accordance with criteria and applicable policy requirements and ranking method agreed upon for the vacancy. 
• Conduct and manage job interviews in line with applicable policy requirements. 
• Respond to line management and applicant inquiries during the recruitment process. 
• Maintain relationships with INTERNAL / EXTERNAL customers/stakeholders/supplies relating to own HR Area: Line Managers, Job Candidates/ Applicants Recruitment Agencies and Consultants, Head-hunters, and Heads of Departments. 
• Maintain data, records and statistics relating to own HR area: Job Descriptions, Job Advertisements, Interview documents, candidate long and short lists, criteria notes and approvals, final selection recommendation documents, recruitment turnaround time. 

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: -

• Bachelor's degree in HR Management OR a Business-Related Field.
• At least one professional qualification - Certificate /Diploma/ Higher Diploma/Post Graduate Diploma in HR General or a specific area of HR.
• 4 years’ work experience, with at least 3 years’ experience Manpower Planning, People Management, Relationship Management and Project Management.
• 1 year experience in Business Partner, Job Evaluation & People Risk Management.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage expertise in emerging technologies (e.g. virtualization, cloud computing, etc.), benchmarks and architecture as well as broader business strategies to define and drive the appropriate network infrastructure strategy (data centres networks, WAN/LAN, firewalls, voice) for the region across multiple countries.
• Identify, define, and lead the implementation of network infrastructure migration opportunities across the region as part of the broader infrastructure strategy.
• Assume one stop accountability for the delivery of enterprise-wide infrastructure and infrastructure operations at an optimal cost of tech across the region.
• Proactively monitor, manage, and mitigate risk (e.g. reputation, resilience, stability, security) associated with infrastructure and infrastructure operations technologies.
• Create and maintain necessary capability, knowledge, and skills both personally and within the Network infrastructure team to deliver world-class network solutions to the Bank.
• Provide technical governance and leadership around design and use of KCB Group’s network infrastructure.
• Conduct ongoing assessments of the Banks existing network infrastructure and build and communicate relevant insights, consumption, cost etc. for business decision making.
• Proactively and meaningfully collaborate across the value chain and broader region to translate the technology roadmap into implications for the design and delivery of sustainable strategies and solutions.
• Ensure sustainable, regulatory compliant infrastructure product service design and deployment for the region.
• Embed a culture of ongoing maintenance and optimization of the infrastructure as a way of doing things and hold accountability for an optimized infrastructure base across the region

Minimum Position Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an ICT-related field or Electrical Engineering.
• Postgraduate Degree (Master’s) in a relevant domain is preferred.
• Professional Certifications: CCNP (Enterprise/Data Centre), Firewall vendor certification (CCNP Security/Fortinet NSE/Check Point CCSA/CCSE).
• Cloud Certifications: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Solution Architect Certifications are advantageous.
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience is required.

Required Specific Experience:

• 7 years of experience in Routing & Switching
• 5 years of experience in Network Security
• 4 years of experience in Software-Defined Networking
• 5 years of experience in Technology Leadership
• 5 years of experience in SLA Vendor Management

Additional Advantage Specific Experience:

• 4 years of experience in Unified Communications
• 4 years of experience in Project Management
• 3 years of experience in Cloud Computing
• 4 years of experience in Network Functions Virtualization