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  • Posted: Mar 31, 2017
    Deadline: Apr 11, 2017
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    The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited is incorporated in Kenya under the Company Act and is also licensed to do the business of banking under the Banking Act. The Bank was initially registered under the Co-operative Societies Act at the point of founding in 1965. This status was retained up to and until June 27th 2008 when the Bank's Special General Meeting...
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    Legal Officer

    This position will give you the opportunity to stamp your foot print in the Corporate Legal Space within the Banking industry. The right candidate will have strong conceptual, analytical, documentation and presentation skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at different levels.

    To excel in this position, you should be bold and courageous, agile, dynamic with integrity and dependable. A strong background and experience in handling legal matters and frameworks in the Corporate world is mandatory.

    Do you seek to always make improvements, do things differently and go the extra mile to deliver exceptionally? If your answer yes, then consider this position at Co-operative Bank.

    Reporting to the Head – Legal Services Department, the role holder will be responsible for ensuring the core business of the bank i.e. lending to customers is highly supported by undertaking the conveyance and security perfection process.

    The role will also entail providing legal advisory services to all departments within the Bank including providing independent legal advice and judgment to mitigate any legal risks.

    Legal Officer Job Responsibilities

    • Provide legal advisory services to all departments within the Bank including providing independent legal advice and judgment to mitigate any legal risks.
    • Manage litigation against the Bank including external lawyers involved in litigation as well as review, analyzing and interpreting laws, regulations and judicial decisions.
    • Provide support in contract negotiations and management including review of contractual agreements for the bank and providing recourse options for non-performing contractors as well as preparing, reviewing and modifying contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.
    • Advice the relevant departments on the perfection of securities and documentation as well as managing the annual securities audits and advise on the remedial process.
    • Offer cost effective and timely legal advisory services and support to the credit recovery function of the Bank in order to foster effective management of regulatory and litigation risk in the recovery of Non-Performing loans.
    • Prepare and facilitate staff training on specific legal matters affecting the bank including dissemination of appropriate legal requirements to various departments.
    • Participating in risk management sessions that have a bearing on legal matters, review risk reports for purposes of managing key risks efficiently in the risk management process and undertake research on current legal developments and prepare briefs to the Head of Legal.
    • Support the Board Secretariat in carrying out secretarial duties.

    Qualifications for the Legal Officer Job

    • Must have a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from a recognized University with a minimum of five years legal experience ideally in a leading organization, with a proven track record in litigation management and conveyance.
    • Must be an advocate of the High Court with a current practicing certificate. CPS will be an added advantage.
    • Working knowledge of the legal environment for Banking and general business/commerce in Kenya will be added advantage.
    • Strong conceptual, analytical, documentation and presentation skills with ability to influence and negotiate at different levels.

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    Data Scientist

    Data Scientist Job Responsibilities

    • Transform large, complex datasets into pragmatic, actionable insights, leverage data to identify, quantify and influence tangible business gain by performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in reports, dashboards and charts.
    • Implement analytical model designs, perform any restructuring required, and review dataset implementations performed by the data engineer and BI developers.
    • Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques and Data mining using bank selected data mining tools.
    • Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems,
    • Process, cleanse and verify the integrity of data used for advanced analysis by creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.
    • Improve data foundational procedures, guidelines and standards and develop best practices for data management, maintenance, reporting and security.
    • Implement statistical data quality procedures or test driven approach for quality assurance and conduct performance tuning to be able to optimize the application of statistical models and scripts.
    • Design, build, and maintain various parts of the data warehousing with respect to requirements gathering, data modeling, metric establishment, reporting production, and data visualization.
    • Gather and process raw, unstructured data at scale into a form suitable for analysis then consolidate into the data warehouse in order to perform Business Intelligence and advanced analytics.
    • Evaluate datasets for accuracy and quality using statistical data quality procedures, software, or test-driven approaches that ensure quality assurance and solve any issues which may arise.
    • Assist to analyze business/use case requirements from BI analysts to determine operational problems, define data modeling requirements, gather and validate information, apply judgment and statistical tests and develop data structures to support the generation of business insights and strategy.
    • Provide test interfaces for users to test the reports and dashboards before being put on the production environment and carry out technical user training as required to enable users interpret BI solutions.
    • Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on models developed, reports generated and statistical solutions devised.
    • Assist in developing and implementing a program of continuous improvement of BI processes through a cycle of analysis of existing systems, processes, and tools, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing high-impact changes, and getting feedback from stakeholders.

    Qualifications for the Data Scientist Job

    • A degree in statistics, data sciences or related quantitative fields is preferred (or equivalent on-the-job experience).
    • A minimum 3-5 years of business experience as a Data Scientist or applied data experience is required.
    • Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL queries, or OLAP cubes is preferred.
    • Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM and
    • Decision Forests.
    • Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable.
    • Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig and Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase.
    • Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc. with good scripting and programming skills.
    • Knowledge of agile software development process and performance metric tools.
    • Experience extracting and cleaning text in different formats e.g. HTML, pdf files.
    • Proven ability to collaborate with other team members across boundaries and contribute productively to the team’s work and output, demonstrating respect for different points of view.
    • Able to use strong interpersonal and teamwork skills to cultivate effective, productive client relationships and partnerships across organizational boundaries.
    • Strong co-ordination and project management skills to handle complex projects.

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    (Agile Project Manager) Head - Digital Hub

    The holder will be responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility projects using agile methods in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions.

    The role holder will also facilitate Sprint Planning, Release Planning participation, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and other related agile meetings.

    The Agile Project Manager also guides Product Owners in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog, and identifies and manages dependencies.

    The role holder also reviews reports, analyzes data and provides feedback to teams in support of continual improvement efforts and provides metrics and status to senior management.

    Digital Hub Job Responsibilities

    • Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
    • Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members. Facilitate the scrum team for better creativity and works to improve the efficiency of the development team. Managing outside influencers. Remove the impediments for the scrum team.
    • Arranges daily stand-up meetings, facilitates and schedules meetings, demos and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process. Conducts retrospective meetings, organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting and acts as safeguard for his team.
    • Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance. Help product owners to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
    • Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management. Is responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team in agile methodology.
    • Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team.

    Qualifications for the Digital Hub Job

    • An IT related Bachelor’s degree or Business related degree with relevant IT professional qualifications.
    • At least 7 years’ experience in managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams with at least 2 years serving as an active Agile Project Manager or Scrum Master in a software development organization. Balanced business/technical background.
    • Certified Agile project manager/Scrum Master with relevant practical experience as an agile project manager/Scrum Master or experience working in a Scrum Framework.
    • Strong understanding of the full software development life cycle, processes and procedures with an understanding of team needs, basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development as well as Service oriented environments and Agile practices.
    • Thorough understanding of the lean/Agile software development methodologies, techniques, values and procedures – User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile
    • Games, Kanban, Extreme Programing (XP), Crystal, Feature Driven Development (FDD).
    • Ability to produce quantifiable metrics of performance and use these to maximize productivity.
    • Coaching capability on agile scrum with a Continuous improvement mindset – Must continually be growing one’s craft, learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team. Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.
    • High level of mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills, Logical, analytical with an investigative creative mind and ability to handle complex information with accuracy and attention to detail. Knows and appreciates the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills when working with both internal business and technical people with external customers, ability to solidify vague requests, explain issues, and guide to solutions.
    • Design thinking experience and/or training is desirable.

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    User Experience (UX) Developer

    Reporting to Head – Digital Hub, the UX Developer will be responsible for the development of mobile and web based applications using latest technologies on android, iOS etc. while assuring security and cross-browser compatibility.

    He/she will combine research and design skills together to understand the user needs and produce concepts/solutions/designs that people want to use.

    Additionally, the successful candidate will make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions & features while taking a user-centered design approach to rapidly test and iterate the designs

    User Experience Developer Job Responsibilities

    • Combine research and design skills together to understand the user needs and produce concepts/solutions/designs that people want to use.
    • Translate Concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.
    • Facilitate customer’s product vision by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.
    • Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys and mockups optimized for a wide range of interfaces and applications.
    • Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
    • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
    • Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.
    • Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
    • Develop mobile and web based applications using latest technologies on android, iOS etc while assuring security and cross-browser compatibility.
    • Prototyping of UX designs for the digital lab.
    • API development on REST, SOAP and other relevant technologies like node.js, Java, PHP.
    • Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
    • Ensure the technical feasibility of user interface/user experience designs.
    • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability and ensure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.
    • Implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO) capabilities using SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
    • Use Google maps API, google analytics, charts, graphs and such tools to enrich the UX delivery.

    Qualifications for the User Experience Developer Job

    • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science & IT related fields or Business related field with relevant IT professional qualifications.
    • At least 3 years’ relevant work experience in a role directly related to web design, UX Design / Front-end mobile-web development experience, product design, product management, production management, marketing. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
    • Expertise in UX software such as inVision, UXPin, HTML5, CSS3, Balsamiq, Framer.js, angularjs, Quartz Composer, and the like is a must.
    • Strong technical proficiency with UX tools such as Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite,
    • Understanding user research, personas, wireframing and Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN).
    • Graphic or Visual Design, Digital Media Design, other visual specialty or any other related qualifications will be an added advantage. Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
    • Ability to scope and estimate efforts accurately, prioritize tasks and goals independently and rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment.
    • Strong understanding of the full software development life cycle, processes and procedures with an understanding of team needs, basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development as well as Service oriented environments and Agile practices.
    • Great focus on human behaviors, psychology and understanding why people do what they do with experience leading projects and building consensus with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
    • High level of mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills, Logical, analytical with an investigative creative mind and ability to handle complex information with accuracy and attention to detail. Knows and appreciates the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills when working with both internal business and technical people with external customers, ability to solidify vague requests, explain issues, and guide to solutions

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    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    Reporting to Head – Digital Hub, the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance and administration of the corporate private cloud. This includes hypervisor (VMware), servers, operating systems, storage and other system administration tasks.

    Develops, coordinates, and maintains the cloud infrastructure in production and disaster recovery to ensure uptime and business continuity.

    Documents ICT infrastructure and manages entire inventory. Analyzes system security needs and assists in developing standards, guidelines and statements of direction for corporate ICT system architectures.

    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Responsibilities

    • Manages performance of ICT Infrastructure and applications to ensure that the systems work as designed and perform consistently and reliably in order to meet Business SLAs.
    • Monitors ICT Infrastructure performance including SNMP, logs, events and maintenance of general systems health in order to provide proactive remedial support, plans and implements timely product upgrades, antivirus updates, routine preventive measures and patch releases for all ICT assets.
    • Recommend replacements and acquisition of new ICT Infrastructure, maintain and update System documentation, operating procedures and business continuity policies. Develop, maintain device access, control policies, data transmission policies, storage policies, Business continuity policies, backup policies, security policies, monitoring profiles, technologies and notification rules that match compliance best practice expectations.
    • Plan and design systems that run mission critical business applications and implement upgrade systems when necessary.
    • Research and evaluate external technical trends and developments and evolving industry standards concerning technologies affecting server load balancing, virtualization, security, client/server and other platforms and their application to business systems. Research local and international technology trends in business and deliver leading edge technology to improve system performance, security and functionality.
    • Act as a thought-leader and consultant on technical planning issues and initiatives.
    • Define and document the various architecture components, including hardware platform, operating system, execution, development, operation, distribution and technologies related to systems administration.
    • Attend to system failure and resolves/coordinates resolution of issues. Install, support and maintain hardware and software infrastructure, provide training and technical support for users and handle queries from them and resolve any issues raised.
    • Establish and maintain business relationships with vendors, consultants and other outside entities providing services to the bank. Negotiate contracts and appropriately monitor performance of their services.
    • Handle queries from users and resolve problems or advices them accordingly.
      Assesse security risks, evaluate, recommend and implement the necessary security measures. Ensure minimal external threat to information resources and is the Custodian of domain rights and local PC passwords for the Bank.
    • Manage internal staff and external vendors to ensure that services are delivered promptly with an aim of obtaining zero interruption to business operations.

    Qualifications for the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
    • 3 Years’ experience in Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Operations and Development or similar role.
    • Certifications: MCSE / VMware/ Redhat / EMC /Cisco.
    • Ability to analyze, learn, and apply rapidly changing technologies and apply them as part of integrated solutions to business requirements.
    • Strong systems knowledge, solid systems design skills coupled with Good project management/consulting and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead or facilitate mission critical projects and to develop, participate in and lead multi-disciplinary work teams.
    • Excellent knowledge of industry standards, concepts and regulations.
    • Strong analytical, troubleshooting and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories.
    • Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.

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    SOA Integrations Developer

    Reporting to Head – Digital Hub, the role holder will be responsible for the detailed analysis, design, development, configuration, implementation, support and maintenance of the respective integrations and systems within the bank especially on TIBCO SOA integrations.

    Additionally, the person will have knowledge of Monitoring SOA server performance, systems capacity, and plan and execute load balancing and fail over. Moreover, this role will require one to work in an agile environment to fulfill the needs of the team.

    If this sounds like you, then consider this position at Co-operative Bank. It will give you an opportunity to leverage on our systems and digital platforms to deliver distinctive customer experiences.

    It can only get more exciting for you here at “The Kingdom Bank”, you get to stretch yourself to new horizons, with opportunities at every step of your career!

    SOA Integrations Developer Job Responsibilities

    • Analyze requests obtained from business to determine operational problems, define integration requirements, advice best way for integration and document the same.
    • Develop new and manage existing SOA integrations depending on the need and requirements.
    • Develop, implement In-House Systems; interfaces and other programs as well as maintain and support various application systems and reports.
    • Develop polices and processes around SOA systems, defining and executing lifecycle management compliance checkpoints and reviews, assistance with technology management of Service Oriented Infrastructure and SOA systems support for development, production and management of SOA implementation.
    • 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 uptime while ensuring optimum performance and efficient web services delivery through the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as part of the bank’s operating model.
    • 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.
    • Provide hands on Performance Management of the SOA ESB products from TIBCO (TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS), TIBCO Business Works, Rendezvous (RV), TIBCO Hawk and TIBCO Spotfire) including WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere MQ and Oracle Tuxedo in development, test and production environments.
    • Mentor and guide other developers on the implementation of web services to optimize resource utilization and also carry out technical user training as required to enable users interpret the reports.
    • Provide test interfaces for users before go-live at the same time work with other vendors to configure and support SOA systems internally.
    • Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on system configuration or setup.

    Qualifications for the SOA Integrations Developer Job

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software and 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.
    • Knowledgeable in the Integration to other supporting systems (database, OS and networks) and skilled in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.
    • A broad and deep understanding of web services automation implementation and support of SOA best practices in agile banking environments.
    • 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.

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    Solutions Architect

    Reporting to Head – Digital Hub, the Solution Architect is intended to provide detailed technical analysis of business requirements to provide the end to end solution to a business need, Provide the projects solutions approach by building software and integration technical designs to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan in collaboration with Enterprise Architects, Application Architects and Data Architects.

    The role holder will also provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximize the return on technology investment.

    The Solution architect will also provide technical support with existing and occurring enhancements with respect to effort estimation and impact assessment as well as identify system, infrastructure and project interdependencies and balance competing demands to ensure project deliverables are achieved.

    Solutions Architect Job Responsibilities

    • Use appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business or functional areas.
    • Produce detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products.
    • Provide advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensure that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly. Provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist in the development of the enterprise architecture to maximize the return on technology investment, participate in governance/stewardship of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) artifacts and definitions, including enterprise services, data, business events/topics, contracts and associated publish/subscribe participants.
    • Specify and design large or complex systems, select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively.
    • Review others’ systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
    • Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on major design options and assess and manage associated risks and ensure that the system design balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
    • Contribute to selection policy for architecture components, weigh alternatives and identify the most effective solutions taking into account wider business context, explore a range of possibilities and creative alternatives to contribute to systems, process and business improvements and finally implement systems and processes that underpin high quality research and analysis.
    • Monitor the market to gain knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies, identify new and emerging hardware and software technologies and products and potential value to the organization.
    • Document policies, procedures and reference architectures on Intranet and communicate updates to appropriate staff. Provide best practice recommendations for project implementation and designing policies and procedures to support the recommendations.
    • Attend code reviews to ensure that platform-specific standards and best practices are followed.
    • Provide team support in project delivery, mentorship guidance, manage team expectations, organize for one on one sessions and manage communication within the team with regard to timely project updates.

    Qualifications for the Solutions Architect Job

    • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, Statistics, Actuarial Science and/or related fields
    • 4 years’ professional experience in IT solution architecture, opment of APIs on Enterprise service bus/SOA experience is desirable.
    • Solid grasp of design patterns and principles, particularly Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
    • Excellent software development skills – Java, Spring framework, JBoss, Websphere Application Server, C#, Oracle databases, SQL server, DevOps, SOA/ESB, Cloud based solutions, Android, REST, XML/RPC, CORBA,
    • Business process management (BPM), Active MQ, Kannel.
    • Experience on systems like Mobile money transfer, USSD/SMS, ERP, CRM, core banking system and other systems in a financial services ecosystem.
    • Familiarity with Unified Modeling Language (UML) and possesses knowledge of ancillary technologies in use at, such as Java, MS SQL server, Eclipse, Oracle, or an ability to quickly learn any of these if needed.
    • Possesses a strong customer service attitude, excellent communication skills, exhibits a passion for learning and continuous improvement. Takes responsibility for acquiring new skills and broadening knowledge.
    • Exhibits a commitment to the utilization of defined standards and processes with entrepreneurial flair with strong business acumen.
    • High level of mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills, logical, analytical and investigative mind, together with creative abilities, A wild duck – out of the box thinker.
    • Ability to handle complex information with accuracy and attention to detail.

    Method of Application

    If you are confident that you fit the role and person profile and you are keen to add value to your career then please forward your application letter enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number LO/2/CS/2017 by 11th April, 2017.

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