Financial Solutions Planning at Safaricom Kenya

Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.

Summary

Reporting to the Manager – Financial Solutions Planning, the role holder responsibilities will include financial services system management, capacity planning and technology evolution to attain a service availability of 99.999%.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluation of new and existing financial systems infrastructure.


• Planning & design for new Financial solutions.


• Platform capacity planning


• Financial solutions technology evolution to attain 99.999% service availability


• Implementation and integration of new hardware/software.


• Optimization of existing systems.


• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with ITIL and Agile standards.


• Change management

Qualifications

• Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development


• 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment (vendor or operator).


• Software development skills in Java, python.


• Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.


• Knowledge in Dev Ops


• Experience in mobile money systems.


• Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP). Certifications will be an added advantage


• Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes etc.)


• Proven Analytical & problem-solving skills.


• Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines/schedules.


• Good presentation skills required.


• Proactive & self-motivated.


• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.

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