Solutions Development Lead at Equity Bank Kenya

ROLE SUMMARY

The incumbent in this role will be expected to provide Software development leadership, day to day guidance and programming expertise to developer teams. They will work closely with a variety of product owners to understand the business problems being solutioned, and work with the developers to build features and tools to solve those problems.
Day to day collaboration with project managers, scrum masters, business analysts, testers and other project squad members involved in solution development and delivery.
This is an active development role, so the successful candidate must currently be actively writing code and must have significant experience with the design, development and implementation of API based solutions via REST/JSON.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and build highly available, resilient, and scalable platformprimitives & API
• Work through problems with your team and roll up your sleeves
• Lead code reviews and drive improved coding and documentationpractices to ensure code quality, mentorship, and shared knowledge.
• Serve as API Design and Development expert on initiatives executed for growing the Borrow, Save&Invest, Insurance lines of business and related partner integrations
• Provide thought leadership and mentor team members to design and implement API’s
• Help identify and lead the transition of current systems, platformsand processes to next-generation API based environments
• Lead and assist with preparation of enterprise API integration solution documentation including but not limited to; developmentof functional and technical specifications, technical approach, testing specifications and implementing technical solutions into anexecution environment.
• Manage software developers, including goal setting, performance
• evaluation, and provide proper guidance to ensure integration services and architectures are designed, tested, documented, implemented, enhanced, and maintained according to the enterprise standards and expected service quality.
• Coordinate with platform engineering, business application owners, and DBA functions etc. to ensure availability, reliability,and scalability of solution implementation.
• Provide technical knowledge and experience during the planning,execution, and management of our integration solutions.
• Participate in knowledge sharing opportunities and contribute tothe overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Borrow, Save&Invest, Insurance team

 
General Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, InformationTechnology or closely related field is a must, with higher-level education preferred. Additional work experience may be substituted for higher-level education
• 7+ years’ hands-on experience developing software in a productionenvironment at scale
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in design and developing integration solutions using APIs, Webservices, Messaging, Orchestration, Integration Patterns and Events using ASP.Net Core,MVC, C#, REST API’s, JSON, SOA, SOAP, WSDL, JMS, XML etc.
• A proven track record of leading the technical direction for software development teams — strong technical mentorship is amust
• Deep experience with object-oriented analysis and design withdemonstrable experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted object-oriented code that scales. Experiencing with a variety ofproject execution methodologies including but not limed to Waterfall and Agile.

CLOSING DATE: 25TH MARCH 2022