Senior Manager, Data Management
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
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Qualifications
Responsibilities
Qualifications
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Requirements
Responsibilities
Requirements
Responsibilities
Requirements
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Reporting to the HoD Digital IT,
the position holder will be responsible for planning, delivering &
supporting all our core analytics solutions, building the data lake in
collaboration with the data science team, building ETLs, applying data science
initiatives within technology.
Responsibilities
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Responsible for all analytical tools
in the organization;
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Having a single source or truth for
data consumption;
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E2E accountability for systems
support including and not limited to MTTR, SLA, individual and global incidents
as well as E2E accountability for building proactive controls based on machine
learning and similar techniques;
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System accountability for analytics
tools and data management solutions
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People management.
Qualifications
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Bachelor of Science Degree in
Computer Science or Engineering;
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7+ years in leading data management
teams with expertise in BI, data lakes & analytics, machine learning and
other data science technologies.
How to Apply
Senior Manager – Digital Engineering
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within
the Technology Division. In keeping with our
current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria
indicated below.
Reporting to the HoD
Digital IT, the position holder will be responsible for driving
the whole digital transformation with end to end responsibility within IT to
drive all digital channels, micro-services architecture implementation, DevOps
& agile delivery.
Responsibilities
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Responsible for for digital channel
architecture evolution;
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Responsible for moving to a
micro-services architecture for all digital solutions;
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Responsible for driving the DevOps
culture within IT
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Responsible for coaching all IT
members on agile and ensure all digital products are delivered using
agile methodology;
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E2E accountability for systems
support including and not limited to MTTR, SLA, individual and global incidents
as well as E2E accountability for building proactive controls based on machine
learning and similar techniques;
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System accountability for all digital
channels solutions inclusive of apps, portals and chat-bots
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People management.
Qualifications
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BS Degree in computer science or
engineering;
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7+ years in leading software teams in
startups or digital native organizations;
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Experience in using advanced
technologies around DevOPs, micro-services, app and backend development as well
as data science.
How to Apply
Financial Systems Delivery Manager
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology
Division. 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 Engagement – FS, COPS and CC, the position holder will be in charge of
delivery of business products using Business Doman and IT knowledge. Leading a
team of Architects and BAs, as well as virtual delivery teams. Break down
complex requirements into simple trackable tasks. Be committed to high quality
and delivery on time without compromise on scope.
Responsibilities
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Responsible for leading virtual teams
across IT to deliver the BU initiatives
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In charge of delivering of the BU
products on time
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Ensure product stability within max
24 hours
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Solutions Design and specification
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Team Leadership
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Managing Capex Spend for systems
relevant to them.
Requirements
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Degree in Science/computer
science/Engineering/Business related.
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Strong business acumen and mindset
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5+ years of software development
experience in a busy IT development environment, 2 years of which must include
experience in Business Analysis and Systems design.
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3+ years’ Experience in Technical
Leadership of large IT projects
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Certification in Business Analysis
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Certification in Agile Project
Management will be an added advantage
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Team player who is skilled at
building up and managing stakeholder relationships successfully
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Ability to persuade stakeholders and
to champion effective techniques through delivery
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Ability to drive initiatives without
any formal authority in an ambiguous environment.
How to Apply
Principal Enterprise Architect
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy in the Digital IT department within the Technology Division.
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who
meets the criteria indicated below.
Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager –
Business Engagement, the individual will Develop and maintain an Enterprise
Architecture that enable Safaricom to achieve its mission, vision and values
systematically through developing enterprise alignment, enterprise agility, and
enterprise innovation/transformation by utilizing emerging technologies and
best practices across enterprise business architecture, enterprise information
architecture and enterprise technology architecture in a business-oriented
holistic way.
Responsibilities
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Lead in alignment of IT budgets to
Business and IT Strategy.
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Responsible for leading IT Digital
transformation programs.
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Responsible for vendor engagement to
influence vendor roadmaps in alignment with business strategy and technology
evolution.
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Responsible for exploration and PoCs
of new technologies and solutions (including PoCs where applicable) and getting
buy-in for rollout of viable ones.
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Responsible for procurement of
technical business solutions.
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Responsible for E2E IT enterprise
architecture.
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Define architecture principles that
all solution designs should follow to ensure a coherent EA.
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Ensure proper architecture execution
towards micro-services and DevOps.
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Attend business strategy meetings to
ensure IT is aligned with business needs.
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Interpret, use and apply information
contained within IT architecture to inform a range of business improvement
activities.
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Ensure 40% of new solutions use new
digital technologies to drive towards Digital IT
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Optimize CapEx and agility by driving
the ‘open source first’ initiatives.
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Collaborate with domain managers to
define their target architectures, roadmaps and transition plans for these
domain architectures
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Act as design authority and provide
an assurance role, ensuring that all architecture activities and deliverables
(in-house and external outsourced) are consistent with existing standards,
policies and strategies.
Requirements
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Degree in Science/computer
science/Engineering/Business related.
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Certification in TOGAF Certified
Enterprise Architect and Certification in Agile Project Management will
be an added advantage
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7+ years of broad technical
background inclusive of databases, applications, Infrastructure, cloud,
development , enterprise architecture, solutions architecture and system design
experience
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A methodical approach with proven
experience designing and delivering complex technical roadmaps
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Comfortable reporting at C-Suite
level and presenting technical direction
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Understanding of working with 3rd
party suppliers
How to Apply
Manager Analytics Systems Support
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy in the Digital I.T Department within the Technology
Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are
looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Reporting to the Senior Manager –
Data Management, the position holder will shall provide leadership for support
and maintenance of all data management platforms within the organization based
on Hadoop and other open source technologies.
Responsibilities
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Provide 2nd & 3rd line Technical
support with a view to curb vendor reliance & consequently reduce support
costs
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Lead implementation of the Business
Continuity Plan & testing for data management plans as par the BCP policy.
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Communicating status, issues and
problems in a real-time manner to business users of the data management systems
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Act as single point of contact for all
operational data management issues and problems
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Lead in coordinating and scheduling
maintenance and upgrades of all Hadoop based data management platforms.
Requirements
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BSc Degree in computer science or
engineering;
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5 years BI or related experience;
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Experience with using Spark, Yarn,
Hive and Oozie, Informatica, Oracle BI;
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Working knowledge of HBase, Solr,
Kafka and Flume;
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Some experience with other
distributed technologies such as Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Flink.
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Experience in managing systems that
process large amounts of data in a Hadoop ecosystem;
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Experience with performance tuning
applications on Hadoop and configuring Hadoop systems to maximize performance;
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Experience building systems to
perform real-time data processing using Spark Streaming or Storm;
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Experience working in a multi tenancy
Hadoop environment.
How to Apply