Metropol was established in Kenya in 1996 as a business Information and credit management company. In 2006 Metropol partnered with GCR to provide credit rating services that enable corporates to raise capital and meet their financing needs. Metropol is also licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya to provide Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Services to ALL banks in Kenya. Our CRB services leverage full-file credit information sharing and alternative data sources from MFIs, SACCOs, HELB, Utilities, Mobile phone companies and providers of goods and services on credit to help customers improve their access to finance and increase the credit providers’ capacity to lend profitably to more customers.
Front-end Developer
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field ICT / Computer
Job Description
The responsibilities include analyzing user requirements, designing graphic elements and creating prototypes / templates. To be successful in this role, you should have experience in application development, UI/UX design and work with wireframing tools.
Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for creating both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our business.
You Will:
- Focus on user-centered design principles to create intuitive and highly functional web, visual and interaction design.
- Keen ability to create interactive prototypes, including graphic design, site navigation, user interfaces and layout of content for web, mobile and app development
- Simplify complex content and ideas into functional, usable interfaces.
- Ensure existing UX guidelines and standards are followed during the development and maintenance of the product.
- Present design concepts and negotiate with stakeholders to arrive at a design that supports both the business and a strong user experience.
- Should be able to produce standards-compliant cross-browser compatible user interfaces
- Translate low fidelity wireframes/UX prototypes into effective and appealing interfaces
- Proactively recognize UX/UI gaps in design and propose solutions.
- Maintain integrity and organization ethics.
You have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Graphical Design, Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or similar.
- 3-5 years of experience in web development.
- Digital design experience in a commercial software product company, design firm, or consulting firm.
- A solid understanding of best practices in product design
- Cross Browser / Platform / Device testing experience
- Strong knowledge of UI / UX / Design patterns and concepts
- Experience building responsive web sites
- Experience with project and issue tracking tools (JIRA)
- Experience of Agile Scrum / Kanban framework
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
- Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
Technologies:
- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, Ajax
- Material Design for Bootstrap
- Angular6
- Visio
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
- Wireframe tools – AxureRP, Balsamic, Fluid UI etc
IT Support Engineer – Media Technology
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field ICT / Computer
Job Description
DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
REPORTS TO: Head of IT Infrastructure & Support
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
These include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring all broadcasting and transmission equipment are operational at all times.
- Carrying out planning, design and implementation of new systems to improve broadcasting and transmission quality.
- Setting up and maintaining studio & link systems required for all outside broadcast and news gathering operations.
- Installing, configuring and testing new broadcast equipment, systems & facilities.
- Minimizing risk of service loss at times of equipment failure by rapidly identifying and implementing alternative methods of service provision.
- Maintaining a service level for broadcasting equipment.
- Offering operational support to all broadcast systems users across the entire business.
- Ensuring that the broadcasting division keeps a breast with changing technology and has the most appropriate technology applied at all times.
- Diagnosis of faulty equipment and repair or make appropriate recommendations.
- Planning maintenance schedules for all the equipment and ensuring its implementation
- Identifying required spares and seeking their approval for purchase.
- Performing routine checks to ensure all equipment, hardware and software systems employed are fit for purpose.
COMPETENCIES, SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Competencies:
- Good knowledge of Audio and Video Delivery over IP.
- Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications.
- Proficiency in server & systems administration (Windows server, Linux, Windows7 / 8 / 10 and Mac OS) is essential, professional qualifications here will also be an added advantage.
- Good working Knowledge of Video Media Asset Management systems and file metadata management.
- Good working administration knowledge of post, editing and graphics systems.
- Knowledgeable in applying best practice for broadcast communications specifically radio, television and online.
- NAS storage administration and backup.
Skills:
- Must have excellent analytical skills.
- Ability and readiness to work long odd hours.
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
- High degree of integrity and dependability.
Education, Qualifications & Experience:
- University graduate in Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics engineering, telecommunication, broadcasting or related field.
- Good working knowledge of IP networking. A professional networking certification will be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge of transmission systems & mediums satellite links, microwave links, OFC links, encoding & decoding systems, DVBT2 & CAS, etc
- Over 3 years’ experience, relevant experience in media will be an added advantage.
- Ability to administer MySQL server & basic web development will be a big advantage.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Turnaround of business requests within Metropol TV SLA.
- Any other as discussed with your supervisor.
Business Systems Analyst
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field ICT / Computer
Job Description
As a Business Systems Analyst, you are expected to be an advanced professional in the analysis, design and development of systems. The Senior Business Systems Analyst will be in charge of eliciting, understanding, and documenting the business requirements. The analyst will also be responsible for documenting all processes and workflows that go into development.
You will also work with developers to create the software requirement specification documents from the approved business requirement. You will be expected to work with the Quality Assurance team to test UI/UX, functionality of applications and ensure systems meet the needs of the organization
This role requires an experienced analyst who can work effectively with all levels of the organization, lead others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems, and make challenging decisions.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
- Be responsible for direct interaction with clients including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases and recommending appropriate solutions.
- Gather business requirements and help build and specifications documents for development.
- Analyze the feasibility of, and develop requirements for, new systems and enhancements to existing systems; ensure the system design fits the needs of the users.
- Validate solutions to ensure they meet the business requirements and help determine the most appropriate actions to address problems identified through project testing or other assessment efforts.
- Work with Technical team to develop high level labor estimates to develop and deploy functionality
- Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
- Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
- Work with the clients to demonstrate the changes to the system to ensure all relevant business needs are addressed.
- Creating and maintain final systems documentation and user manuals for completed systems.
- Develop training materials and provide training in one-on-one or classroom environment.
- Train and assist users on how to document systems requirements, how to conduct user acceptance testing and participate in actual user testing documenting the results and raising necessary change requests.
- Responsible for BA Team development, performance goal-setting, management and evaluation reviews
Job Specifications (SKILLS, COMPETENCIES, QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE)
Essential:
- Degree in Information Technology or related field
- Certified Business Analyst
- 5 years IT/IS business analysis experience.
- Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio.
- Strong knowledge in relational databases (Oracle, Postgres etc)
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows
- Strong facilitation, active listening and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to develop and foster strong relationships with business and IT teams.
- Ability to deal with complex situations holistically.
- Ability to define current/future business models and influence the interconnections between the business processes, technology, data and people.
- Excellent time management, organizational skills and strong problem solving skills.
- Professional written and communication skills and high attention to detail.
- Ability to acquire knowledge to make process improvement recommendations.
- A flexible approach to work, demonstrated by a willingness to undertake further duties as assigned.
Desirable Skills
- Experience as an Agile/Scrum environment, projects practitioner
- Strong consultative and advisory skills.
- Knowledge in good UI/UX design.
- Ability to build, wireframes and prototypes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
- Understanding of systems engineering concepts, workflow development and business process engineering.
- The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis.
- Working experience in documenting and presenting software to both technical and business users.
- Business case development and modeling techniques and methods.
Competencies
- Good leadership skills
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose issues and offer solutions.
- Proven track record managing requirements for multiple projects in parallel across multiple lines of business and stakeholders.
- Ability to perform assigned tasks with minimal direct supervision.
- Ability to interview stakeholders to understand business rules and requirements, map business process and flows, and translate findings into effective business requirements.
- Ability to collaborate with technical teams, demonstrating an awareness of the software development life cycle.
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