Department: Technology Department

Location: Tanzania

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute application development initiatives to the overall IT strategy.
• Work with business units to formulate banking products and provide technical guidance during the procurement process.
• Analyze product requirements and design best-fit architecture and solutions in line with KCBT policies and industry best practices.
• Manage project resources, schedules, costs, stakeholders, and the application development lifecycle.
• Implement best practices and deploy appropriate tools to manage and govern application development and the IT change process.
• Engage end-users to assess satisfaction and support successful project closure.
• Work with functional teams to hand over system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with Level 3 support.
• Identify and champion innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Manage team performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish sustainable practices.
• Develop, execute, and measure OLAs and SLAs with IT functional teams and business units.

Daily Responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze requests to implement new applications that address business challenges and improve process efficiency.
• Evaluate and analyze requests to modify existing software systems and applications where anomalies have been detected or processes are inefficient.
• Distribute and manage workloads among application developers.
• Manage the application development lifecycle and ensure adherence to the application development policy.
• Engage with business teams to formulate strategies that leverage software systems to take advantage of business opportunities.
• Provide support to banking operations administrators and operators in resolving core banking anomalies and refining operations.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any computer-related field is required.
• Java Certification is required.
• Oracle Certification is required.
• Enterprise Architecture qualification is required.
• ITIL certification is required.
• Master's degree in a computer-related field or Project Management is an added advantage.

Experience

• Experience in developing digital lending and savings solutions.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

• Contribute application development initiatives to the overall IT strategy.
• Work with business units to formulate banking products and provide technical guidance during the procurement process.
• Analyze product requirements and design best-fit architecture and solutions in line with KCBT policies and industry best practices.
• Manage project resources, schedules, costs, stakeholders, and the application development lifecycle.
• Implement best practices and deploy appropriate tools to manage and govern application development and the IT change process.
• Engage end-users to assess satisfaction and support successful project closure.
• Work with functional teams to hand over system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with Level 3 support.
• Identify and champion innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Manage team performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish sustainable practices.
• Develop, execute, and measure OLAs and SLAs with IT functional teams and business units.
• Evaluate and analyze requests to implement new applications that address business challenges and improve process efficiency.
• Evaluate and analyze requests to modify existing software systems and applications where anomalies have been detected or processes are inefficient.
• Distribute and manage workloads among application developers.
• Manage the application development lifecycle and ensure adherence to the application development policy.
• Engage with business teams to formulate strategies that leverage software systems to take advantage of business opportunities.
• Provide support to banking operations administrators and operators in resolving core banking anomalies and refining operations.

• Java
• Oracle
• Enterprise Architecture
• ITIL
• Digital Lending Solutions
• Digital Savings Solutions

• Bachelor's degree in any computer-related field
• Java Certification
• Oracle Certification
• Enterprise Architecture qualification
• ITIL certification
• Master's degree in a computer-related field or Project Management (added advantage)