Safaricom
Limited is the leading mobile telecommunications company in Kenya.
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Product & Service Development Department within the Technology Division.
Developer - Business Systems Planning (Business Intelligence)
Ref: TECHNOLOGY-DBSP-BI-AUG-2014We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Product & Service Development Department within the Technology Division.
Developer - Business Systems Planning (Business Intelligence)
In
keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets
the criteria indicated below:
Reporting
to the Senior Manager Business Systems Planning, the role holder will be in
charge of
- Development
and 3rd line support of Safaricom Management Information Systems (Data
Ware-house and Business intelligence (BI)) and all reporting and analytics
systems. This will include, but not limited to, Churn management tools,
Fraud management and Revenue assurance systems, Data Mining Systems,
Campaign Management Systems and Dealer Incentive Management systems;
- Work
with other departments within the company to identify requirements and
develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces) ;
- Configure
and/or customize BI and analytics systems to meet business requirements
using various database and software tools;
- Assist
in presentations of system functionality to new users and departments ;
- Enhance
and create user and system documentation as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create
test plans, test data sets and perform automated testing to ensure all
components of the developed systems meet specifications;
- Work
directly with the IT support personnel and teams to resolve issues
identified and escalated during daily operations;
- Perform
root cause analysis for recurring incidents;
- Formalize
test plans and implement troubleshooting procedures;
- Upgrading
products and applying patches as necessary;
- Maintaining
and modifying reports/queries on an as-needed basis;
- Managing
and supporting the security implementation;
- Troubleshooting
database connectivity issues;
- Maintaining,
coordinating back up and restoring the ETL and Reports repositories
and other Systems binaries and source codes;
- Conduct
business user requirements analysis and specification;
- Specify
computer system requirements for the solution of complex business problems
and formulates designs for their solutions;
- Perform
the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure
that business application systems can be effectively developed and
implemented;
- 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 modelling to analyse and specify data structures within an
application system;
- Coding
of all ETL and analytics processes used within the BI systems;
- 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;
Role Requirements
- Degree
in Computer Science, Statistics or technical related field;
- Oracle
Certified Developer;
- Certification
in RDBMS;
- 3
years development experience with development tools e.g. Java ;
- 3
years development experience with low level programming C++, C.;
- 3
years’ experience RDMS preferably Oracle, MS SQL Server;
- 3
years’ experience in data warehousing, business analysis, knowledge in
Business Systems modeling and data retrieval;
- 4GL
for programming - Visual Basic/Oracle Application builder;
- SAS/SPSS
Data Mining experience will be an added advantage;
- Systems
Analysis and Solutions Architecting;
- Programming
and Systems Development;
- SQL
& Oracle database management ;
- Data
Quality & Cleansing experience;
- Advanced
Unix scripting and user skills;
- Experience
in processes and procedures management;
- Communication,
interpersonal skills and attention to details.
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the
necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your cell
phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable
candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the
address below by Tuesday 26th August 2014.
The Head of Talent and Resourcing,
Safaricom Limited
Nairobi
The Head of Talent and Resourcing,
Safaricom Limited
Nairobi
via
E-mail to hr@safaricom.co.ke