Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya - incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 - and all KCB's regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It als...
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Senior Applications Developer
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience5 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldICT / Computer 
Key Responsibilities
- Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration technologies 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 nonfunctional 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
- 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
- Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline from a recognized university.
- At least 5 years’ experience in Technology.
- At least 2 years' experience working with Software Build and Deployments in a busy environment.
- At least 2 years' hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like – Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
- At least 2 years’ experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using various tools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository.
- At least 2 years’ experience with the Source Code Management tools like GIT, Bitbucket, and TFS.
- At least 2 years' experience working in a fast-paced agile environment.
- Proficient in scripting
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to KCB Bank Kenya on eoin.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com to apply