Career Openings at Stratostaff

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop high quality solutions that are scalable, secure, and stable across the enterprise solutions.
• 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 analyze 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 tasks.
• 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 interfaces.
• Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
• Work closely with Technology Risk and Security teams to ensure that applications are well secured as per the bank’s Technology Security policies and standards.
• Understands the necessity of and contributes to establishment of the right programming standards.
• Provide 3rd level support to the banking operations administrators and support teams and other application support teams in resolving production systems anomalies and refining of system operations.
• Creates and communicates initial estimates including suggested solution, IS impacts, IS costs for minor, small, and large enterprise projects.
• Collaborates with vendor partners for integration of partner development activities within project timeline.
• Performs technical evaluations of new technology products or suggest changes/enhancements to existing products/environments to fulfil business needs.
• Provides daily support for existing enterprise solutions, including modifying, testing, validating, and documenting system changes. Adheres to normal change control processes for these activities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• Professional qualification: Either certificates on ITIL, Project, Temenos T24 or related
• Experience with IT Banking Systems in either of the following areas, Temenos Core Banking system, Tranzware/ Card systems, Mobile Banking and mobile money, payment systems, Sybrin, Credit Quest
• Experience with Enterprise systems, development and support, IT Projects & Agile development

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct business process improvement initiatives aimed at improving efficiencies and effectiveness. 
• Act as a liaison to Business and IT to gain a broad understanding of business initiatives and their impact on technology.
• Documentation of business requirements and processes for all business initiatives and projects.
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning, and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables.
• Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Lead effort to work with business leaders to identify business capability needs and IT integration.
• Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements. 
• Assess the current Business framework to detect critical deficiencies and recommend for improvement in line with the IT strategy and delivery priority of the IT/Bank programs.
• Function as a liaison to Business and IT partners to gain a broad understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on technology.
• Provide an analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement. 
• Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework
• Participate and guide on functional tests planning and execution.
• Participate in the IT quality assurance process.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
• At least one professional qualification in the following list: - CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation; Prince2.
• 7 years progressive experience in Information Technology with at least 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as Application Architecture, Application Development, Integration, Micro Services and Software Asset Management in a multitier environment.
• Experience with Operating systems (Windows/ Unix) and Database Management Systems.
• Experience working in Business Analysis / Applications Architecture.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components.
• Experience and familiarity with graphical modelling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
• Ability to balance the long-term (big picture;) and short-term implications on individual components and projects

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analysing enterprise specifics - Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
• Analysing and documenting requirements- Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.  
• Setting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the Business subject matter experts in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Analysing the technology environment- Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
• Controlling solution development-Participate in solution developments to ensure technical and business requirements are adhered to.
• Supporting project management- Provide architectural oversight of projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
• Leverage’s business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business, and information architecture efforts.
• Translates strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and logical models.
• Build and maintain repositories for deliverables, methodologies, and business development documents.
• Ability to independently facilitate discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and manage the flow of conversation while driving to meet business objectives.
• Ability to independently manage conflict among diverse cross portfolio stakeholders related to competing interests and requirements.
• Able to help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study.
• At least one professional qualification in the following list: CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation, Design Thinking, and Innovation; Project Management - PRINCE II.
• 5 years technology experience in at least two IT disciplines such as business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, micro services, and SOA.
• Experience working with Database Management Systems.
• Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud and processing environments.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid)

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand Bank’s technical infrastructure and ecosystem and manage complex technical projects from concept to closure.
• Ensures that project-critical resources are available and used efficiently to support the project goals.
• Direct technical teams through all phases and activities of the project, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation.
• Communicates with the project team to ensure understanding of project goals, milestones, deliverables, and individual roles and responsibilities.
• Provide regular updates to business customers and stakeholders, project sponsor on the status of the projects.
• Ensure project and technical solution aligns with scope and is delivered within budget and timelines.
• Own the technical delivery of technical projects, manage technical tasks at a granular level, follow up with key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with partner teams and stakeholders to define deliverables, determine pre-requisites and identify documentation needs.
• Proactively identify, plan, and communicate project risks and roadblocks in delivery and manage them appropriately.
• Responsible for maintaining the functional integrity of all the systems and integrated components throughout continual solutions delivery.
• Ensure that technology solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with architectural principles, standards, roadmaps and that they minimize technical debt.
• Use agile methodologies to maintain a strong focus on delivery priorities, holding delivery teams to account for timely delivery, and swiftly responding to changing requirements, dependencies and risks. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study
• Project Management qualification; PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Technology Projects Management / Delivery

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop full-scale project plans and estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues from the project and program team, analyze results and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources, chairs/coordinates the project management team meetings. Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, realignment of schedules and expectations as needed.
• Establishes and implements project communication plans for independent projects, develop and deliver progress reports while maintaining an up-to-date projects status updates - publish periodic project updates [at all stages]
• Schedule and facilitate meetings related to Technology projects.
• Develop and manage annual budgets for Technology projects.
• Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables while monitoring the performance on activities of project team members.
• Perform risk assessments and develop response strategies.
• Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• Professional qualification: ITIL Foundation
• Project Management PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the releases.

• Own the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change Management team Build team and other key stakeholders regarding the same.

• Assign and track release activities with various teams.

• Packaging, controlling, and integrating the release components as per the dependencies identified. 

• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third parties.

• Coordinate with the Build team to build the release and produce the build document, which will contain.

  • Build, installation and test plans, procedures and scripts.

  • Monitoring and quality assurance of the release

  • Processes and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release into the target environment.

  • Release unit roll-back procedures

  • Change remediation steps in case of release failure.

• Ensure that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests are successful as per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.

• Obtain the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as per the release plan

• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.

• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• Professional qualification: ITIL Foundation and Project Management
• At least 5 years experience in Release management in a large environment working multiple systems with 3 years supervisory experience
• At least 4 years experience in Applications Support, Infrastructure Support (Hardware & Network)
• Experience with IT Service Management processes
• Project Management experience

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Key Responsibilities

• Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices and their application for the delivery of projects and business initiatives and acts as an evangelist for adoption of agile methodology within the enterprise.
• Ensures that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive for project delivery while facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and helps to remove any impediments to the project delivery.
• The Scrum Master guides, facilitates, coaches, mentor and teaches agile standards and Scrum practices (e.g., Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) to the scrum, project teams and the whole development organization.
• Organizes and facilitates and leading scrum ceremonies (sprint planning meeting, daily stand- ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospects etc), events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Collaborates closely with Product Owners and Technology Relationship Management teams to prepare and clarify the Prioritized Product Backlog and the Definition of the Done Criteria and facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Reviews with the product owner.
• Facilitates identification of the stakeholders and manages the stakeholders and vendors as required for business projects or initiatives
• Responsible for creating release plans including deliverables and the release deadline, plans and estimates the highest value deliverables for the next release
• Demonstrate and Validate Sprints by facilitating presentation of completed Deliverables by the Scrum Team for the Product Owner’s approval
• Supports the Scrum Team in determining the length of sprint, creating the deliverables, identification of tasks and effort estimation for the tasks agreed for a sprint.
• Monitoring progress and performance of the scrum teams and institute mechanisms geared towards making improvements in terms of self-organization, productivity, and efficiency.
• Keeping the organization up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects & initiatives by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Information Technology or related field from a recognized institution.
• 5 years’ progressive experience in Information Technology with at least 3 years’ experience successfully implementing projects using Agile & Scrum methodology.
• Scrum Master Certification is required.
• Technical knowledge of software development processes and procedures.
• Experience in administering burndown technologies, retrospective formats, and handling bugs.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skill