Jobs at Safaricom Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing  policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.

Fraud Detection 

• Develop and correlate insights on current and emerging fraud trends and derive critical information to aid in decision making and performance benchmarks for fraud controls.
• Support in the development and optimization of fraud rules and models in response to current and emerging fraud trends.
• Support integration and optimization of fraud automations with business systems, and required data feeds aimed at improving detection ability and control environment.
• Setup of tracking mechanisms to monitor fraud KPIs and conduct deep dives geared towards success of the fraud initiatives within strict timelines.
• Collaborate with the various squads towards implementing short to medium term fraud controls
• Active participation in fraud reviews and other fraud monitoring initiatives.

Risk Analysis and Audit

• Practice and collaborate on Risk assessments for products and services with internal stakeholders. 
• Continuous assessment and evaluation of Fraud control suitability and approach to specific customer fraud risk areas.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders required for supporting execution of the tasks to manage customer safety and security on fraud. 

Forensic Reviews and Investigation

• Execution of Forensic reviews across Business risk areas.
• Articulate required fraud controls to be inbuilt in products, services and processed with on-time and on-demand analytics to support Agile product development. 

Data Analytics and Mining

• Work closely with Data Science teams towards delivery of short to medium term development  of fraud analytics models to address prevention of fraud in GSM, MPESA and new product areas.
• Provide insights on customer pain areas to address gaps in Product design, processes that expose customers to Fraud.
• Develop insights on current and emerging customer fraud trends and fraud risk areas into actionable use cases.
• Active participation in all fraud monitoring activities.
• Create fraud solution use cases and detailed product roadmap documents to articulate desired features and functionalities of the desired Fraud architecture and functionalities.
• Track and analyze frontline metrics for Demand.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for addressing triggered and untriggered demand management interventions.
• Support front line teams with required insights on demand and collaborate on first time resolution of demand.

Automation, Reporting and Tooling

• Define risk based automation and reporting requirements for monitoring of fraud solutions KPIs for all products and services. 
• Deliver continuous insights on Worry Free Initiative to elevate it to a breakthrough  Financial Services Industry innovation.
• Develop and maintain integrated reports within  the function to capture well defined performance metrics for rules, AI models and Demand Management. 
• Work closely with other business stakeholders on reporting unification for Corp Security Demand
• Develop insights from 24-7 monitoring to drive use cases for automation and controls refresh.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Customer Obsession

• Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
• Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
• Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
• Simplify processes through digitalisation and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
• Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
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• Purpose
• Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
• Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
• Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
• Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
• Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.

Innovation

• Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
• Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
• Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
• Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
• Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.

Collaboration

• Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
• Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
• Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
• Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
• Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest Standard of integrity.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in Business, Engineering or IT Undergraduate Degree or relevant field along with professional qualifications. 
• Professional certification in AI, Data Science, Fraud Examination, Auditing, IT Security. 
• Competencies in software development/ data extraction technologies and platforms e.g. {C#, Java, Python, C, C++, Objective C, Flutter, Oracle, MySql, Sql Server,Nosql Databases,Virtualization Using Docker, Linux and Windows Administration, ETL,  Soap/Restful Web Services, USSD, SMPP, Cloud Computing using AWS/Azure}.
• Understanding of Agile Methodology, Machine learning, Bot development, Penetration Testing, QA, Project Management, Micro services, SANs security compliance, and Technical documentation.
• At least 3 years as a software engineer/developer or data science experience.
• Proficiency in data analysis and trend profiling using big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop,Apache spark, or Power BI.
• Ability to work in complex environments and multiple projects simultaneously with strict deadlines to deliver on commitments.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possess high professional and ethical standards.

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Specialist – Cyber Security Defense 

• You will be responsible for proactively identifying threats and vulnerabilities; detecting and mitigating cyber events; and managing cyber security incident responses to minimize service impact and provide a secure digital future for our customers. The expertise in this team drive Cyber security improvement across MPA with collaboration with the Vodacom Group, Markets, other Group and Operating Company operational teams and external partners.   

Key Responsibilities: 

• Coordinate and optimize monitoring controls, lead incident management, and support security audits. 
• Optimize cyber security baselines and monitoring controls. 
• Manage security incident processes and coordinate responses. 
• Support technology audits and close findings promptly. 
• Manage forensic tools, EDR, and logging solutions. 
• Collaborate with Vodacom/Vodafone Cyber Defense teams. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related. 
• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCNP/CCIE Security preferred. 
• Experience in incident management, intrusion analysis, or network troubleshooting. 
• Experience in managing security tools and deployments. 
• Experience working with Vodafone Cyber Defense a plus. 

​​​​​​​Specialist – Cyber Security Prevent 

• You will lead and coordinate optimization of the Operational & Monitoring cyber security baselines (CSB) controls across all MPA relevant business areas and processes as well as set-up, execution and maintenance of the security incident management and coordination process in conjunction with incident management capabilities.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support Privileged Access Management (PAM) activities. 
• Maintain firewalls, WAFs, antivirus, IDS/IPS, and logging systems. 
• Troubleshoot and remediate security operational issues. 
• Implement cyber security policies and support incident response. 
• Drive continuous improvements and close audit findings. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related. 
• Experience in network security and PAM solutions. 
• Certifications like Security+, CCNA Security preferred. 
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft, Linux/Unix, IAM, and security tools. 
• Excellent communication and project management skills.