Vacancies at Co-operative Bank of Kenya

 Job reference number FSD/IID/2024

The Role

Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Shape and implement technology / business solutions to contribute to the organization’s competitive differentiation.
•  Use Agile engineering practices and various software development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the organization’s technology stack.
• Collaborate with other team members to implement user stories, write tests, and continuously deliver new / improved product functionality.
• Communicate with internal IT teams to resolve technical dependencies during implementation.
•  Develop all front-end and backend and/or server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end according to user’s specification.
•  Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Assist in preparing system specification by the users highlighting technical requirements.
• Carryout analysis of the requirements and recommend solutions to address user requirements.
•  Carryout system testing.
• Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on system configuration or setup.
•  Carry out technical user training in respect to these systems so that the business can utilize them.
•  Provide solutions for SIT/UAT and ensure that functions/features are ready before being put on the live system.
•  Secure systems by putting adequate controls and restrict access to programs by users in accordance to the requirements of the bank.
•  Attend to systems failures and resolve or coordinate the resolution of the problem.
• Adhere to change control procedures in implementing solutions.
• Build the organization’s brand in the technology community.

Skills, Competencies and Experience

The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics Engineering, IT or related field from a recognized university.
•  Minimum of 3 years’ experience in software development is, with proficiency in server-side technologies including Springboot, Apache Camel, NestJS, SpringMVC, ExpressJS, Node.js, Java, PHP, C#, ASP.NET, XML, as well as client-side languages such as HTML/CSS, Javascript.
•  Knowledge of designing RESTful APIs, SOAP Services, SSO/OAuth, LDAP and Search Technologies.
• Experience with a least one JS framework/Libraries – Angular, Cordova, Ionic, ReactJS, VueJS, Ember, jQuery, JQWidgets, Bootstrap.
•  Very good knowledge of Windows Operating Systems and an understanding of Unix and Linux.
• Excellent understanding of SQL database fundamentals (for MSSQL, Oracle etc.).
• Knowledge of Agile software development practices with experience working in an agile environment with DevOps processes, workflows, and tools like TFS, GIT, Jenkins or Docker will be a plus.
•  Knowledge of Agile software development practices and experience in an Agile environment are required. Familiarity with DevOps processes, workflows, and tools such as TFS, GIT, Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, Team City, Docker and Kubernetes will be considered a plus.
• Very strong analytical, presentation & problem-solving skills with the ability to work confidently on high priority problems and present technical ideas in a user-friendly language.
•  Positive attitude and willingness to learn new things.

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 Job reference number FED2/IID/2024

The Role

The successful jobholder will be expected to:

•  Develop new and/or improve existing user facing features to enhance the user experience for both mobile and web applications.
•  Deliver responsive and cross-browser compatible applications.
•  Use Agile engineering practices and various software development technologies to rapidly develop creative, efficient, and re-usable solutions that enhance the organization’s technology stack.
•  Prototype or test the technical feasibility of the UI/UX designs and maintain brand consistency.
•  Optimize applications for size, speed, performance, and scalability.
•  Consume APIs developed by the back-end developers to display data on the application, get and validate input from the application and post data to the API.
•  Secure applications across all channels by putting adequate application security controls.
• Implement UI/UX analytics to analyze our applications and generate insights to help improve our applications and better understand our customers.
•  Liaise with software vendors to resolve application issues or escalation by collecting, collating information and clearly documenting issues to enable efficient support from the software vendors/partners.
•  Adhere to change control procedures in implementing solutions and seeing through a project from conception to completion.
•  Work collaboratively with the UI/UX design team during the development and improvement of the user experiences.
• Act as a user-advocate during the development process by offering and implementing suggestions from a user centered design perspective.
• Act as a “go to” with in depth knowledge of user interface development best practices and standards.
• Provide support to fellow front-end developers by engaging in peer code reviews.
•  Continuously research on better ways of achieving joyful user experiences and applications optimization.
• Actively contribute to the front-end development of web based and mobile applications in the bank.
•  Use of DevOps and CI/CD tools to deliver new features and projects faster.

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following qualifications: –

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science & IT related fields with a focus on software development.
•  At least 3 years’ relevant work experience in Front-end mobile-web development.
• Experience in responsive and adaptive web development, along with proficiency in Android and iOS development.
•  Proficient understanding of web markup languages and cascading stylesheets, such as HTML and CSS3.
•  Proficiency in CSS, Bootstrap, LESS and SASS.
•  Proficient understanding of client-side scripting frameworks such as JavaScript, ReactJS, Angular, Vue.js and jQuery.
• Good understanding of server-side technologies such as Node.js and PHP.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
•  Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN.
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them.
•  Knowledge in working with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge in working with Hybrid Mobile Applications such as Cordova, Ionic, Capacitor and Flutter.
• Excellent knowledge of web analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Firebase, Mixpanel etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills, logical thinking, an analytical and investigative mind, and creativity.
•  Proficiency in native android development using Jetpack compose or XML and/or knowledge of Swift UI or UI Kit will be an added advantage.

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 Job reference number ID/IID/2024

The Role

Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Analyze and document integration requirements, working closely with business units to define clear specifications.
•  Develop and maintain both new and existing ESB and microservices integrations based on business needs, ensuring they are thoroughly documented.
•  Establish and enforce policies for lifecycle management and compliance in line with SOA best practices, including creating and managing technical documentation at each integration point.
• Design scalable, containerized integration solutions using Docker and manage them with Kubernetes for robust deployment and operations.
• Maintain SOA reference architecture, including creating detailed documentation for the UDDI services, SOAP/REST web services, and WSDL specifications.
•  Perform hands-on performance tuning of the APIs across the ESB products including the respective configurations to ensure the envisioned TPS is achieved as per business needs.
• Develop and maintain SOA reference architecture and assist in the management of the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) services catalog, SOAP and REST, Web-services, and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to streamline the process of managing the SOA system.
• Support the UDDI services catalog in the development and management of SOA toolkits, reference architectures, and in the integration and deployment of Web Services provided by other vendors into the ESB and work with other vendors to configure and support SOA systems internally.
•  Support, Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on these interfaces and the respective configuration and parameters to accommodate business and technological requirements.
•  Assist in preparing interface definition/specification by the users highlighting technical requirements, carry-out analysis of the requirements, recommend solutions to address user requirements and ensure adherence to change control procedures in implementing solutions.
•  Secure systems by putting adequate controls and restrict access to interfaces by users in accordance to the requirements of the bank Liaise with software vendors to resolve systems/interfaces issues or escalation. Collect, collate information and clearly document issues to enable software vendor support.

Skills, Competencies and Experience

The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, IT or related field from a recognized university.
• At least 2 years’ experience in implementing and supporting TIBCO products, Web-services, load balancing and SOA implementation in development, test and production environment.
•  Experience in performance monitoring, load balancing, performance tuning/optimization, load testing, management of SOA systems and must be able to independently carry out these functions including capacity planning in TIBCO SOA products environments.
• Excellent understanding of programming languages and other programming tools particularly C#, J2EE, HTML/CSS, XML.
•  Strong analytical, presentation and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work through own initiative and as part of a team
•  Good knowledge and skills in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.