Planning & Design Engineer
Account Receivable
Software Engineer
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy in the Network
Engineering 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 Manager – Radio Access Planning & Design, Access
Network Planning & Design the
role holder will be responsible for Providing radio frequency (RF) and/or
Radio Access Network (RAN) strategy for a wide range of wireless network
technologies including 2G, 3G, and LTE and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
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Design, plan and optimize wireless
radio access network communications systems, including radio propagation
modelling and prediction, interference analysis, frequency coordination,
parameter definition and ancillary equipment;
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Participate in formulation of radio
capacity design guidelines and strategies as per ITU and safaricom planning
guidelines;
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Participate in developing internal
processes used for radio capacity design and Optimization and inter and intra
departmental team processes for enhancing RF system performance;
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Performs development, testing, and
validation of RF feature plan proposals. Provides input in defining
implementation guidelines for approved new features and technologies. Engages
Vendors and Strategy team on hardware and software roadmaps and new RF
technologies;
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Performs development, testing, and
validation of capacity enhancing feature plan proposals. Provides input in defining
implementation guidelines for approved new features and technologies. Engage
Vendors and Strategy team on hardware and software roadmaps and new
technologies;
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Manage all Radio planning tools,
software and hardware inventories and track upgrades and licensing;
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Provides input to management on
tactical and strategic issues. Key contributor to developing products strategy;
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Collaborates with legal, SLT and CAK
to ensure regulatory compliance;
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Prepares accurate and timely
equipment forecast for new nominal. Define need for capacity, coverage and
quality sites. Ensure timely release of all new site plans;
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Participate in MSVs, SAVs and IBS
survey visits;
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Enforce site sharing as much as
possible to reduce on our Capex and Opex;
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Prepare and coordinate issuance of
redesigns, integration parameters and BTS signoffs as per SLA;
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Coordinate and carry out Post debar
site evaluation to ensure optimal performance of all new sites. Engage with
Regional Optimization teams to optimize new sites to ensure they meet defined
KPIs;
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Collects, processes and reviews drive
test data. Works with other RF Engineers to evaluate and resolve issues.
Updates databases with resolution or actions taken;
·
Support other business units on
technical evaluation of RF solutions on existing and emerging technology plans
and strategies;
·
Manage all Radio planning tools,
software and hardware inventories and track upgrades and licensing.
Qualifications
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BSc. Honors degree in
Electrical/Electronic engineering with bias towards telecommunications;
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Excellent analytical skills and
attention to details, Communication and interpersonal skills, Excellent trouble
shooting and problem solving skills;
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2 years’ experience in
telecommunication;
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Candidates with experience in, Nokia,
or Huawei radio equipment will have an added advantage;
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Knowledge of 3G & 2G networks and
interoperability with 4G is a must;
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Basic knowledge in traffic modeling,
coverage and capacity forecasting & management. Knowledge in tele-traffic
Engineering, LTE, and U900 is a plus;
How to Apply
Account Receivable
Contractor
We are pleased to announce the following contractual vacancy in the Financial
Operations departmentwithin
the Finance Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are
looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Posting Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager; Accounts Receivable, the individual us responsible for the accuracy and
completeness of local debtors recognition in the financial statements and
maintenance of the sales debtors ledger
Responsibilities
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Daily reconciliation of the daily
orders’ amounts and invoiced amounts
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Monitor the timely payments from
dealers for all sales orders supplied on credit and ensure timely update of
their subsidiary ledger accounts
·
Set up of dealer accounts in the
oracle application master-file after ensuring that they are properly approved
and documented and backed by dealer application forms
·
Set up dealer credit limits in Oracle
application based on approved documents and a valid bank guarantee. Monitor the
adherence to the limits from the daily aged dealers’ debtors report. Reconcile
the aged debtors report to the sub-ledger.
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Monitor to ensure value of sales
orders from dealers with approved credit limits are only processed within their
limits
·
Ensure accurate invoices in terms of
pricing and taxes are always generated from the oracle application and
submitted on time to the dealers
·
Report on the number and value of
credit notes issued by the business on a monthly basis and on a cumulative
basis containing reasons for generation of credit notes
·
Ensure dealer commission statements
are availed on portal by the 5th working day for dealers to invoice.
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Preparation of balance sheet
schedules required from AR section by latest 4th working day after month end.
·
Preparation of all P&L schedules
required from AR section as per the month end closure timetable.
Qualifications
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Certified Accountant with CPAK or
ACCA (completely certified) credentials
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A degree from a recognized university
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At least 2 years accounting
experience in a well-run company
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Attention to detail with excellent
interpersonal and communications skills
·
An excellent planner and organizer
How to Apply
Software Engineer
We are pleased to announce the
following vacancy within Safaricom. In keeping with our current business needs,
we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Reporting to the Product Owners in the respective Business Units, the position holder will be required to develop and
publish enterprise solutions using best practice and new technologies including
but not limited to web technologies for integration, mobile app, cloud
solutions, data and source management adopting Agile in DevOps and team
delivery.
Responsibilities
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Sound and Quality Delivery – develop,
test and document APIs as allocated by the team leader. This includes preparing
for CAB sessions, deployment and post go live support for APIs candidate for
production promotion
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Design – assist in low level design
preparation and validation of high level design as shared by the solution
architect
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Analysis – participate in analysis
sessions for user stories and requirements and ensure complete user requirements
are captured and agreed on
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Research on new fit for future
technologies and actively implement the viable solutions
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Understanding of Microservices
architectures
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Experience with Java technologies and
frameworks mainly Spring and Hibernate.
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Experience in containerization
platforms like Kubernetes,docker-swarms or RedHat openshift
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Demonstrate strong design and
programming skills using and developing RESTful APIs using JAX-RS, JSON ,
Web Services, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in UNIX and Windows environments
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Strong collaboration and
communication skills within distributed Agile project teams
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Experience with event-based and
message-driven distributed system like Apache Kafka ,ActiveMQ,Rabbit MQ or
Tibco EMS
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Strong familiarity with web servers
and load balancing technologies.
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Experience in use of source code
management systems like SVN or GIT and build tools like ant, maven, Gradle or
make.
Qualifications
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IT, Engineering, Computer
Science/Software Engineering/IT.
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Extensive programming experience
using Java J2EE, Spring, Spring boot, SQL, JMS /C++/C# .
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Extensive experience with databases –
data structures, relational data model, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL development
or NoSQL DBs.
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Extensive experience of web
services/technologies – REST/JSON, WSDL, XML, JavaScript;
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Experience with application security
technologies (e.g. SSL) to ensure secure applications.
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Experience in Agile
Development/software life-cycle development (SDLC).
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Preferred experience with Apache
Tomcat application server, Glassfish and SOA.
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Preferred experience with Linux/AIX
OS’s.
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Hands on with Maven build scripts/
Curie moving to Git Hub
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Strong Critical thinkers
How to Apply
