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(Re-advertisement) M-Pesa Africa - Senior Manager: Software Engineering
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience10 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldICT / Computer 
About the Role
This role will be key in driving the strategic evolution of the M-Pesa ecosystem by leveraging and optimizing existing platform capabilities, building new solutions and platforms to meet the future commercial requirements of M-Pesa, in the operating markets, ensuring alignment with M-Pesa Africa’s global financial services footprint. This involves leveraging existing platforms and capabilities, key technology partners, maximizing cost efficiency, and delivering scalable, high-performance financial solutions that reinforce and improve M-Pesa Africa’s competitive advantage. This role ensures that M-Pesa Africa remains at the forefront of Mobile Payments innovation, fostering a robust financial ecosystem that drives sustained growth, market leadership, and expanded financial inclusion.
Responsibilities
- Strategic platform alignment and stakeholder engagement
- Drive and Influence the Technology Strategy of MPA, supported by budgets and plans to deliver on the business strategy;
- Drive close collaboration with the Commercial Teams to ensure solution development aligns seamlessly with market and functional roadmaps and priorities;
- Engage with senior stakeholders, including Group SLTs and OpCo CEOs, ensuring transparency, strategic alignment, and informed decision-making throughout the platform development lifecycle;
- Provide executive-level briefings on platform roadmaps, supplier strategies, and emerging opportunities in M-Pesa.
- Technology and Supplier Strategy
- Proactively collaborate with strategic technology partners to analyze, influence, and accelerate the development of next-generation mobile payments capabilities;
- Own and govern platform development initiatives, ensuring M-Pesa Africa retains final approval authority for all major architectural and engineering decisions.
- Enterprise architecture and platform engineering excellence
- Collaborate with Mobile Payments, Enterprise Architecture & Design team, ensuring all design solutions adhere to best practices in scalability, security, and performance optimization;
- Oversee software development governance, ensuring alignment with M-Pesa Africa’s global technology strategy and compliance frameworks.
- Quality Assurance and Operational Resilience
- Direct collaboration with Assurance, Security, Testing Strategy, adhere to test automation framework, tooling ecosystem, and quality assurance methodology;
- Partner with the Operations Team to ensure platforms deliver high availability, reliability, and service-level performance, meeting business-critical demands.
- Financial and Productivity Optimization
- Work closely with Finance Teams to ensure efficient budget allocation, cost governance, and strategic investment in platform innovation;
- Continuously seek opportunities for process optimization, driving enhancements in test automation, collaboration tools, and development productivity.
Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of deep expertise in Mobile Payments and Financial Services Architecture ie extensive knowledge of Distributed Payment Architectures, Real-Time Transaction Processing, Regulatory Compliance (e.g., PSD2, PCI-DSS), and mobile wallet ecosystems
- Enterprise-Grade Software Development Management leading full-lifecycle software development, including requirements engineering, CI/CD pipeline optimization, version control strategies (GitOps), and software configuration management. Experience in managing complex microservices-based, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
- Strategic business and customer-centric technical leadership – Strong focus on business impact, product-market fit, and end-user experience when driving technology decisions.
- Ability to deal with diverse cultures;
- International experience and multicultural sensitivity.
Education & Experience:
- A graduate degree preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field;
- Professional certification in different delivery methodologies eg Agile, SAFe Agile or Waterfall;
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C++)
- Experience with designing and implementing complex software systems;
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to Safaricom Kenya on egjd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com to apply
