Senior Application Developer

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for leading the design, development and deployment of large-scale complex software solutions at an enterprise level. These applications are often high-volume mission, critical systems and will provide an exposure to a broad range of technologies across all layers of architecture in Java, Redhat Integrations, Cloud and DevOps practice. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration technologies and tools to drive business.
• Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
• Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project
• Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
• Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
• Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and
• Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline from a recognized university.
• At least 5 years’ experience in Technology.
• At least 2 years' experience working with Software Build and Deployments in a busy environment.
• At least 2 years' hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like – Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
• At least 2 years’ experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using various tools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository.
• At least 2 years’ experience with the Source Code Management tools like GIT, Bitbucket, and TFS.
• At least 2 years' experience working in a fast-paced agile environment. Proficient in scripting

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

To be considered your application must be received by Wednesday 06^th November 2023

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.