Kenya Commercial Bank, renowned for its diversity and growth in
the Region is currently strengthening its support for group operations and
business with the aim of maintaining Best Practice whilst also responding to
the growing Business needs to support internal and external Customer Service
delivery objectives and increase shareholder value.
To this end the following challenging positions have arisen and candidates with the requisite competencies and qualifications described below are hereby encouraged to apply.
Application Developers
Job Ref IT 08/2011
The Position
Reporting to Senior Manager, Application Development, the developer will
require interaction with third party service providers as well as other
internal IT units.To this end the following challenging positions have arisen and candidates with the requisite competencies and qualifications described below are hereby encouraged to apply.
Application Developers
Job Ref IT 08/2011
The Position
The developer must demonstrate a strong understanding of and high regard for hand-held devices and web solutions as a business delivery channels for both bank corporate and retail customers as well as for online agency banking services.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, Develop
and Install developed components.
- Work closely
with IT Security to ensure that applications are well secured.
- Understands the
necessity of and contributes to coding standards
- Accountable for
preparation and timely delivery of quality applications. The
responsibility includes requirements definition, review of design
documents, user test planning and review, defect tracking, and project
closure tasks.
- Have expert
knowledge on Dot Net programming, Share point, Active Server pages
development and Database Management.
- Work with Excel
services and Sql analysis services to provide results on data collected.
- Provide the bank
with statistical reports on research and performance of various services
using system tools.
- Develop Business
Continuity plans for solutions
- Specifying and
ensuring application controls are incorporated during design of the
software in order to check on risk exposure.
The Person
We are looking for talent, proven application developers to join our Information Technology team.
For the position, the successful applicants should have: -
We are looking for talent, proven application developers to join our Information Technology team.
For the position, the successful applicants should have: -
- A Bachelors of
Science in Computing or related degree from a recognised University
- Java programming
certification - The developers should have in depth skills in jbase/java
that is provable and quantifiable (code samples and/ or project
descriptions) as the bulk of our development work is in or interfaced with
T24 banking system (T24 is a jbase/java system).
- Interested in
learning and has a creative mind set.
- Provable
experience working on web or mobile application projects (work history
with links to previous website projects)
In particular, the applicant should have at least 2 years working
experience in:-
- Developing
applications, defining and testing the software or systems after
development to ensure that the set functional and security parameters are
in place.
- Internet
connectivity security.
- Java programming
and .net
- Knowledge of SQL
programming. SQL Server 2005/8 Administration and performance tuning will
be an added advantage.
- In depth skill
with the tools of the trade in web and mobile development.
- Familiarity with
networking and IT security will be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge
of the workings of the internet, firewalls and VPN technology
- Some working
knowledge of PC hardware
- Possess sound
negotiation, excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal
skills
- Be pleasant,
outgoing, aggressive and self-driven
- Appreciates the
value of great user experience in building applications
- Responsive to
user needs.
- Enjoys
interacting with users and solving problems
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application with a detailed CV, stating your current position, remuneration level, e-mail address and telephone contacts quoting the job title/reference in the subject field to recruitment@kcb.co.ke.
To be considered your application must be received by 22nd July 2011.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
You can now click on this link www.kenyanvacancies.com to visit our sister website for more vacancies.