Financial Systems Software Development and Systems Engineering

Kenya

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Job Description

Brief Description

Reporting to the Development Lead Fintech – Financial Services IT, the role holder responsibilities will include financial services system development, support, capacity planning and technology evolution to attain a service availability of 99.999%.

Key Responsibilities

• Software development for new financial solutions as per the approved solutions designs.
• Participate in design for new solutions.
• Software testing to meet both functional and non-functional requirements (monitoring, performance testing etc.)
• Document and maintain software functionality and document released software. 
• Troubleshooting, debugging, upgrading and optimization of existing systems. 
• Recommend and execute improvements to existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with Software development standards.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Release and change management
• Contributing towards innovative initiatives. 
• Undertake necessary measures to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects.
• Development of microservices using java and spring framework.
• Use CI/CD to automate deployments.
• Deliver projects on time as agreed upon by the various stakeholders.
• Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery while making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Development of automated tests for functional, performance, and security testing using test-driven development.
• Evaluation of new and existing financial systems infrastructure.
• Planning & design for new financial solutions.
• Platform capacity planning
• Financial solutions technology evolution to attain 99.999% service availability.
• Implementation and integration of new hardware/software.
• Optimization of existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with ITIL and Agile standards.

Qualifications 

• Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development
• 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment.
• Knowledge and experience on coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring framework, AngularJS, React, Git, Apache camel, Node Js and GraphQL.)
• Experience and Strong understanding of both JSON and SOAP
• Experience in securing APIs using Oauth2, SAML etc.
• Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in DevSecOps, CI/CD and version control (Git)
• Good understanding of writing unit tests.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
• Experience in mobile money systems. 
• Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP).
• Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, openshift container platform etc.)
• Proven Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Good presentation skills required.
• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profileon the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Software development for new financial solutions as per the approved solutions designs.
• Participate in design for new solutions.
• Software testing to meet both functional and non-functional requirements (monitoring, performance testing etc.)
• Document and maintain software functionality and document released software. 
• Troubleshooting, debugging, upgrading and optimization of existing systems. 
• Recommend and execute improvements to existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with Software development standards.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Release and change management
• Contributing towards innovative initiatives. 
• Undertake necessary measures to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects.
• Development of microservices using java and spring framework.
• Use CI/CD to automate deployments.
• Deliver projects on time as agreed upon by the various stakeholders.
• Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery while making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Development of automated tests for functional, performance, and security testing using test-driven development.
• Evaluation of new and existing financial systems infrastructure.
• Planning & design for new financial solutions.
• Platform capacity planning
• Financial solutions technology evolution to attain 99.999% service availability.
• Implementation and integration of new hardware/software.
• Optimization of existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with ITIL and Agile standards.

Qualifications

Qualifications 

• Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development
• 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment.
• Knowledge and experience on coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring framework, AngularJS, React, Git, Apache camel, Node Js and GraphQL.)
• Experience and Strong understanding of both JSON and SOAP
• Experience in securing APIs using Oauth2, SAML etc.
• Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in DevSecOps, CI/CD and version control (Git)
• Good understanding of writing unit tests.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
• Experience in mobile money systems. 
• Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP).
• Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, openshift container platform etc.)
• Proven Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Good presentation skills required.
• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.

Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profileon the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.