Safaricom
Software & Data
Nairobi Full Time
IT & Telecoms KSh Confidential
Job Summary
Reporting to the Technical Lead Enterprise Integration and Contact Center Planning, the position holder will be responsible for development of software solutions ensure smooth and efficient service delivery that meets the expectations of the business.
Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Mid level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements
Department Description
We are pleased to announce the vacancy of a Solutions Engineering Lead within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Description
Reporting to the Technical Lead Enterprise Integration and Contact Center Planning, the position holder will be responsible for development of software solutions ensure smooth and efficient service delivery that meets the expectations of the business. Application development duties include but not limited to specification, design, development, validation, documentation and evolution of the new and current service applications; performance management; maintenance and fault management. In addition the role holder will be responsible for knowledge sharing, mentorship of software engineers
Responsibilities
Define coding standards, write code, and execute code reviews.
Lead the software engineers on day-to-day activities while ensuring proper resource scheduling for optimal delivery.
Coordinate releases of new product and services into production, ensure alignment of all stakeholders, review runbooks and change work instructions to ensure deployment as per plan while achieving non-functional and operational requirements.
Manage events and incidents in the production environments and ensure resolution within target recovery time by identifying the root cause or putting in place a workaround to restore service or a permanent fix. Document the incident, impact and track all arising actions items via problem management.
Planning, coordinating execution and documenting the business continuity all the services in the domain to ensure disaster recovery readiness is achieved.
Continuously evaluate the performance of the systems in the domain, review configurations and monitoring to ensure policy and technical compliance, recommend improvements and track closure.
Engaging stakeholders across different business units on continuous service improvement initiatives within the domain, track, update on progress to closure manage any impediments.
Maintain reports on team performance, vendor performance and system performance as well as review departmental and divisional reports especially around availability, capacity, and service management, pick out any actions that require attention and prioritize for resolution.
Undertake regular one on ones, performance reviews and mentorship of team members to ensure optimal performance.
Work with the planning and development teams to chart the target architecture and roadmap to evolve integration systems to fit for future platforms.
Lead the team on research in new ways of operating integration platforms, identify opportunities for automation and well as spearhead the adoption of machine learning and AIOps.
Qualifications
University Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
5 years’ experience in software development in a busy IT environment.
Strong programming and technical skills. Extensive programming experience using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript etc.
Hands on experience with microservices – Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms based on java. Spring boot framework is preferred.
Extensive experience with databases – relational data model, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL development, Messaging / Streaming, RDBMS, NoSql Databases and InMemory Databases.
Experience in Agile Development/software life-cycle development (SDLC).
How to Apply
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.