Jobs at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position: 

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of large-scale complex software solutions at an enterprise level. These applications are often high-volume mission critical systems and will provide an exposure to a broad range of technologies across all layers of architecture in JAVA, Redhat Integrations, Cloud and DevOps practice.

He/She will work independently or collaborate with teams across the development organisation to understand the functional requirements and translate them into shippable products. In addition, he/she will be a technical lead in many projects and a thought leader in the integrations and software development practice.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration ttechnologies and tools to drive business.Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
2. Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to aanalyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
3. Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
4. 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
5. Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure
6. Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
7. Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and
8. Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
9. Collaboratively work with the Quality Assurance analysts and product owners to carry our functional and system tests and play a key role in facilitating User acceptance tests.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

1. University degree from a recognized institution preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology.
2. 5 years Technology experience with at least 2 years’ experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.
3. Application development experience using any of the following technologies: 
4. Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX-RS), REST and SOAP API, Java Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices, JPA/JDBI, Openshift. 
5. A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure & continuous integration tools such as GIT, Jenkins, XLR.
6. Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
7. Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.

The above position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

To be considered your application must be received by Tuesday, 8th March 2022

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The Position:

The Application Developer will work as part of a team and individually to design and code functional programs and applications. He/she will be required to write “clean” and flawless codes and produce fully functional software applications according to requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Understand business requirements and how they translate to application features.
2. Collaborate with a team of IT professionals to set specifications for new applications.
3. Design creative prototypes according to specifications.
4. Write high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines.
5. Perform unit and integration testing before launch.
6. Conduct functional and non-functional testing.
7. Troubleshoot and debug applications.
8. Evaluate existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features.
9. Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code.
10. Tech Stack; JAVA, Spring, CAMEL, React, JSON, Mongo D
11. CI/CD and DevOps principles adherence and utilization.
12. Prepare and execute all phases of the Agile Scrum to agreed standards and specifications.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

1. University degree from a recognized institution preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology.
2. 3 years Technology experience with at least 2 years’ experience in developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications.
3. Excellent knowledge of at least two programming languages.
4. Application development experience using any of the following technologies: Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX-RS), REST and SOAP API, Java Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices, JPA/JDBI, Openshift.
5. A good understanding of Cloud infrastructure.
6. Able to work with a variety of customers and collaborate with technical teams.
7. Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
8. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
9. Excellent planning, organization, problem-solving and analytical skills.

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The Position: 

The role of Enterprise Solution Engineer is to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of enterprise solutions. The Enterprise Solutions Engineer is responsible for the creation of technically complex multi-component solution designs and partners with Enterprise and Solution Architects to identify and implement solutions that enable business needs. The Enterprise Solution Engineer will lead and influence the project team to ensure the technical success of initiatives, utilizing sound expertise in the evaluation and creation of multiple solution design options, meeting complex requirements and constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop high quality solutions that are scalable, secure, and stable across the enterprise solutions.
2. Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
3. 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.
4. Identify, champion and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
5. 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.
6. Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
7. Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
8. Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and interfaces.
9. Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
10. 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.
11. Understands the necessity of and contributes to establishment of the right programming standards.
12. 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.
13. Creates and communicates initial estimates including suggested solution, IS impacts, IS costs for minor, small, and large enterprise projects.
14. Collaborates with vendor partners for integration of partner development activities within project timeline.
15. Performs technical evaluations of new technology products or suggest changes/enhancements to existing products/environments to fulfill business needs.
16. Provides daily support for existing enterprise solutions, including modifying, testing, validating, and documenting system changes. Adheres to normal change control processes for these activities.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

1. Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
2. A Certification in either, ITIL, Project Management; Temenos T24 or related.
3. A minimum of 5 years ‘experience in Technology with at least 3 years’ in banking systems, systems development, IT Projects & Agile development.

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The Position:

The role holder will write & use frameworks and tools to test software products. The role requires understanding software internals for Whitebox testing, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline the KCB software quality process through review of technical designs, implementation of automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency through understanding of customer usage models, development of test plans and test cases and scenarios with focus on development, maintenance, and enhancement of the test automation framework and automation infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Review documented user needs/requirements and designs software testing artifacts.
2. Prepare test strategy documentation and see them through the various levels of approvals.
3. Provide timely and detailed periodic progress reports on Test executions.
4. Architect, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts
5. Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
6. Design and build scalable automated test frameworks and test suites working across technologies.
7. Test existing applications, identify deficiencies and offer solutions.
8. Conduct research on emerging application development technologies, languages, and standards and define the most suited automated testing techniques to apply/implement.
9. Find and correct errors through a systematic program of testing conventions.
10. Review specifications and develop testing programs and prepares test data fit for adopted testing approach.
11. Collaborate on the planning and execution of performance testing on systems under implementation.
12. Test reusable pipeline code within the CI/CD framework.
13. Perform deployments on Test environments, trouble shoot issues on test environments and collaborate with software developers on resolving the identified problems.
14. Management of Test environment and ensuring that the environments are always available and in usable state.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
2. Certification in ISTQB `or ISTQB Agile Tester or Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) or Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) or Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ).
3. 3 years’ experience in Software Development.
4. Strong interpersonal and communication skills