Commercial Bank Integration Specialist Jobs in Kenya

Commercial Bank Integration Specialist Jobs in Kenya

Position: Integration Specialist

Department: New Business Ventures

Reports to: Manager, Systems Development

Job Purpose Statement

This is a technical role that is responsible for the analysis, design, development and
management (technical support) of the bank’s ESB platforms with all its integration
points to the Core Banking System, Bank Channels, Partners and other Third-Party
systems.

The role delivers business strategy through the GITA by making information flow
through various Bank Systems.


The role requires prototyping skills, excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work as part
of an agile team, to manage competing priorities, design solutions as part of a larger
roadmap and to be hands on in supporting implemented technologies.

Key Responsibilities

The effective execution of the role’s responsibilities should enhance the NCBA brands
by delivering on the below key responsibilities;

The design/analysis, development, delivery and ongoing improvement of all Systems
Integration processes (40%)

Provide 2nd Level support for escalated issues from the IT Operations and IT
Applications Teams (20%)

Adherence to internal policies and procedures for the development and
management of NCBA Integration Platforms and ESB/SOA repositories along ITIL and
other best practice standards (10%)

Support, maintain and audit existing service lifecycle artifacts, to agreed SLAs (10%)

Effective management of relationships and protocols with other technical platform
owners and internal business owners (10%)

Advise internal customers on technology improvements that will ensure realization
and maximization of business objectives (10%)

Competencies

Excellent Interpersonal Skills

The candidate relates easily and naturally with executives, business managers,
technical teams and customers. Has excellent listening skills and understands the
desires and challenges of all our leaders and customers.

Commercial Acumen

The ideal candidate has broad knowledge of business, and has an interest in
market trends.

With this knowledge, the candidate has researched and possessed an intricate
knowledge of our business: it’s vision, mission, strategy, values and how it operates.

They easily see how our business model compares with trending local & worldwide consumer demands.

Excellent Leadership & Communication Skills

The ideal candidate can clearly communicate and share the Systems Integration
matters with executives, business leaders, and stakeholders across the
organization - in a manner that leaves them all touched, moved and inspired.

Ability to rally the organizations technology team around the architecture
framework.

Innovative & Adaptable

The ideal candidate is passionate about innovation.

Loves technology and possess both a deep and broad understanding of the
technology market and cutting-edge technology trends.

Continuously listening to our stakeholder’s feedback, and coming up with new
architectures and enhancing existing ones to leverage these cutting-edge
technologies.

Self-Driven & Results Oriented

Self-motivated and self-managing.

Their work has had a material impact in attracting new customers, delighting
existing customers, increasing our market share and enhancing our organizations
efficiency and profits.

Delivery model is organized around delighting our customers, increasing our
profitability, and increasing the businesses efficiency.
Others

Knowledge and experience in modern practices for Systems Integration and
operations in medium to large banks to provide guidance on quality
improvements and strategic changes

Technical skills to effectively perform or guide performance of Application design
and operations activities/tasks in a manner that consistently produce high quality
of service.

Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes,
procedures and guidelines to consistently achieve required compliance
standards or benchmarks.

Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork
and trust that are needed to support performance and customer-service oriented
culture.

Qualification and Experience Requirement

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related
field. A Master’s degree in Technology or Business-related course is an added
advantage

Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly
digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical
systems, with at least 2 of those years within systems integration

Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL,
PRINCE2

Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java,
Kotlin, C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and
MS SQL etc.

Strong hands on experience in Oracle SOA suite including BPEL, Human
Workflow, Business rules, BAM, Mediator, Oracle Adapters, OSB, JDeveloper,
WebLogic Application server, and Oracle Database.

Strong understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard
methodologies.

Experience in creating technical designs, deployment related artifacts.

Ability to Develop, Unit test and fix defects raised during testing phases.

Knowledge of Unix commands and SQL will be required.

Certification in Oracle SOA/BPM Suite will be preferred.

Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP,
XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

A good knowledge of the systems and processes within Financial Services industry

Issue/bug tracking tools e.g. JIRA

Use of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab CI/Jenkins Testing Automation

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