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Software Developer IT Jobs at Flexi Personnel, Kenya
Industry: IT
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Our Client, a financial solution provider in Banking software, Microfinance software, Mobile and Switch solution in the global market today, seeks to recruit a Software Engineer. The ideal candidate will be directly responsible for the actual designing, developing and installing software solutions for target clients within set deadlines and specifications as well as ensure that all related activities are well planned, managed and happen within the agreed standards.

Software Developer IT Job Summary

Delivery of software on time and on budget, based on original scope & requirements

Designing software and producing scalable and resilient technical designs

Driving the delivery of business value via change programs/projects within the futures & options clearing technology group

Digesting and understanding Business Requirements and designing new modules/functionality to meet those needs

Creating Automated Unit Tests using Flexible/Open Source Frameworks using a Test Driven Development approach

Develop a strong understanding of the Futures & Options business and key functions of clearing, margining & settlements.

Partner with supporting tech leads to develop realistic and achievable project estimates

Analysis and build within Control, Stability, Resiliency, Capacity & Performance areas.

Testing: Unit, SIT & UAT planning and management.

Robust delivery of code into the production environment with zero tolerance for post implementation issues

Take part in decisions affecting long range organizational goals & strategic planning.

Proactively look to develop, implement and further development best practices across the group. The areas of focus should include, but not be limited to quality improvement, code reviews, code/architecture standards, code reuse, reduction of support calls, technical documentation and technical design specifications.

Qualifications

Relevant university degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience

Minimum 3-5+ years of application development experience

Confidence with Core Java J2EE with Java 6

Multi-threaded Programming

Java Frameworks i.e. Spring; Hibernate

Proficiency with Development Tools (e.g. Eclipse, Hudson)

Track Record delivering in an Investment Bank environment

RDBMS experience preferably Oracle 10g/11g skills and preferably DB2

Test Driven Development Skills

Exposure/ competence with Agile Development approach

Solid experience utilizing Source code control software (e.g. Clearcase, Subversion)

Minimum 3-5+ years of technical/business analysis experience (includes documentation of technical design, end-user requirements, designing and writing use cases, component design descriptions and process flow diagrams)

Experience with design/build tools (Magic Draw, Enterprise Architect, etc)

Extensive business and data analysis skills

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Experience with business process mapping & tools

Process analysis and design

Experience in investment banking technology and applications
Software Developer Job Applicants should also have:

XQuery, MarkLogic, FpML, MQ/JMS, Flex, Maven, Unix shell scripting

BI skills (Business Objects preferably or Cognos)

Sybase ASE or MSSQL including stored procedures

To apply, send your CV and cover letter only to hr@flexi-personnel.com before 19th March, 2015. Clearly indicate the position applied for on the subject line.

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