Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA
Description
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Reporting to the Manager; Financial Solutions Support, the role holder will be responsible for the data and application availability of assigned systems and applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in design, testing and implementation of new products, services, functionalities or upgrades
- Use software skills to automate repetitive tasks within M-PESA system and the ecosystem
- Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects
- Optimize existing software design architectures and ensure new architecture provide always on solutions
- Collaborate with team members to improve processes, tools, systems and procedures
- Participate and provide input to the M-PESA roadmap to ensure timely delivery of relevant products to Safaricom Customers;
- Implement DevOps technologies and processes e.g containerization
- Engage stakeholders to ensure new functionality, processes and systems are fully understood
- Transfer system knowledge to internal customers on new features and support processes
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues on the assigned systems and apply a work around or a permanent solution to resolve within SLA
- Provide prompt and accurate feedback to stakeholders on assigned tasks
Qualification
- A Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field as a minimum
- Minimum 2 years of work experience as an engineer in a telecommunications or financial services environment (vendor or operator)
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex technical issues
- Expertise in system monitoring and alerting strategies and can draw on their experience to drive improvements in system monitoring with automation, third party tools and frameworks
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Software development skills preferably in Java, Python.
- Knowledge in ITIL Service Operations processes and Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals or higher is an added advantage.
- Working knowledge in dev ops and dev ops tools like Github
- Knowledge in Tibco is an added advantage
- Knowledge in mobile money systems, integrations or Financial systems
- Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines
- Good presentation skills
- Proactive & self-motivated
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