Information Technology Department,Rwanda.Manager ,T24 Development & System Intergration

Information Technology Department,Rwanda.Manager ,T24 Development & System Intergration at KCB Bank Kenya

Information Technology Department,Rwanda.Manager ,T24 Development & System Intergration at KCB Bank Kenya

Overview

JOB PURPOSE: The T24 Development and Systems Integration Manager will be responsible for leading the design, development and deployment of core banking customizations and product implementations at an enterprise level. These applications are often high-volume, mission critical systems and will provide an exposure to a broad range of technologies across all layers of architecture in Java, Basic, Containerized Core Banking, Card Systems and Financial Reporting. Works independently or collaborate with teams across the development organization to understand the functional requirements and translate them into shippable products. In addition, he/she will be a technical lead in many projects and a thought leader in the integrations and software development practice.

Role

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Overseeing T24 Analysis and Development and ensuring that the bank standards are adhered to.

2. Provide Nurturing and guidance to T24 and API Gateway developers and ensuring continuity in the unit. Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using Java, Jbasic, and RedHat Integration technologies and tools to drive business.

3. Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non- functional requirements.

4. Expose integration interfaces from the core banking using Temenos Web Services (TWS) and connect to third party utilities from core banking to gateway.

5. Implement and support all customizations and initiatives across the group business i.e. DFS, Retail, Corporate, Operations, Credit and subsidiaries.

6. 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.

7. Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks. Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.

8. 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.

9. Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.

10. 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.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Software development using the following technology stack; JAVA, spring, CAMEL, React, JSON, Mongo db.

2. Core Banking development, customizations TAFC, TAFJ, Basic i.e. T24, Sopra

3. Integrations to Core Banking through SOAP and REST. Card System Integrations and Functional processing on Card Switch.

4. Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code. Write high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines.

5. Perform unit and integration testing before launch. Conduct functional and non-functional testing.

6. Prepare and execute all phases of the Agile Scrum to agreed standards and specifications.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s degree in information technology / computer science or related field
Professional Certification in Scrum certification / ITIL / T24 certification / Linux/RedHat
Master’s Degree in IT or Related field is an added advantage

Minimum of 7 years of experience in software development in banking /developing enterprise grade highly scalable Java based applications. / Experience in Banking Operations.