Developer – Data Analytics at Safaricom Kenya

Developer – Data Analytics at Safaricom Kenya

Overview

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below

Role

Reporting to the Data Analytics Development Lead, the position holder will offer leading expert solutions and technical guidance in development, administration, service provision and availability of all the Safaricom Business Intelligence and analytics systems.

About The Company

Safaricom is the leading technology company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 60 million customers connected across Kenya and Ethiopia, and play a critical role in the society, supporting over 1.13 million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 1.1 trillion ($ 8.5 billion) for the 12 months through March 2025.

Listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and with annual revenues of close to KES 388 billion as at March 2025, Safaricom provides connectivity through wide range of technology. Our 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G network in aggregate covers over 99% of Kenya’s population.

We run the world’s largest mobile payment system and Africa’s largest Fintech, M-PESA, the world’s first mobile money transfer system. By empowering millions of customers to transact, save or borrow money through their mobile phone, M-PESA has driven financial inclusion in Kenya to 84.8% of the adult population in 2024, from a low of 26.7% in 2006, and generated over KES 161 billion in revenue as at FY25.

Our subsidiary, Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia, has deployed world class network and services to contribute to Ethiopia’s digital transformation.

Safaricom is an equal opportunity employer, actively recruiting staff from different backgrounds reflecting the communities that we serve. We are committed to equal gender representation at all levels.

As part of our ongoing commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we continue to work towards improving energy and resource efficiency in our network and facilities to reduce carbon emissions and our fuel consumption. We remain committed to becoming a Net Zero carbon-emitting company by 2050.

Responsibilities

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Development of ETL and analytics processes used within the BI & Analytics systems;
• Development of reliable data integration and preparation processes;
• Development of insightful dashboards and reports, tracking performance across channels for actionable data-driven decision-making and insights;
• Delivery of highly scalable distributed big data systems, using different open source technologies;
• Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications. Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components;
• Performs data modeling design, architecture and build data structures within an application system;
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that reporting needs can be effectively developed and implemented.
• Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications;
• Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in analytics and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business;
• Automation and enhancement of Business Intelligence processes leveraging AI for delivery of analytics solutions.
  Participation and membership in various technical fora for the purpose of increasing the collective knowledge base of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or any other technology related field.
• Advanced UNIX / LINUX scripting, Python and SQL
• Advanced ETL knowledge in Informatica Cloud / IICS / IDMC, Apache NiFi and Kafka
• Oracle certification in database administration or application development
• AWS Certification in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Data Engineer or CompTIA Data+
• MSc/MBA is an added advantage
• Working with relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache Hive and non-relational
• Databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Programming skills such as Java, C++.

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