Enterprise Solution Engineer at Stratostaff

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop high quality solutions that are scalable, secure, and stable across the enterprise solutions.
• Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
• Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project tasks.
• Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure
• Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
• Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and interfaces.
• Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
• Work closely with Technology Risk and Security teams to ensure that applications are well secured as per the bank’s Technology Security policies and standards.
• Understands the necessity of and contributes to establishment of the right programming standards.
• Provide 3rd level support to the banking operations administrators and support teams and other application support teams in resolving production systems anomalies and refining of system operations.
• Creates and communicates initial estimates including suggested solution, IS impacts, IS costs for minor, small, and large enterprise projects.
• Collaborates with vendor partners for integration of partner development activities within project timeline.
• Performs technical evaluations of new technology products or suggest changes/enhancements to existing products/environments to fulfil business needs.
• Provides daily support for existing enterprise solutions, including modifying, testing, validating, and documenting system changes. Adheres to normal change control processes for these activities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• Professional qualification: Either certificates on ITIL, Project, Temenos T24 or related
• Experience with IT Banking Systems in either of the following areas, Temenos Core Banking system, Tranzware/ Card systems, Mobile Banking and mobile money, payment systems, Sybrin, Credit Quest
• Experience with Enterprise systems, development and support, IT Projects & Agile development