Jobs at Safaricom Kenya

Responsibilities

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing  policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions
• Share commercial & technical insights at cluster level.
• Deliver cluster level network NPS, CSSR, CDR, MOS, Dl & UL throughput targets and managing customer complaints.
• Manage and coordinate physical optimization of 2G/3G/4G/5G infrastructure.  
• Ensure soft Parameter testing & alignment, feature test & deployment, neighbor management and best practice documentation.
• Analyze statistical KPI trends, DT analysis and carry out remedial actions to resolve emerging quality issues.
• Trigger replan of 2G/3G/4G/5G technologies in accordance with the agreed capacity, quality and coverage indicators.
• Continuous Monitoring of cluster level statistical and Benchmark drive test KPI’s and Trigger corrective optimization plans and manage implementation to completion.
• Ensure all physical changes are updated on ATOLL database. Perform routine audit on sites. Maintain standards 4G/3G/2G parameter rules on all radio database parameters;
• Manage Network NPS within cluster by customer complaints prioritization solution provision.
• Identify existing or potential E2E bottlenecks in the mobile network and resolve or escalate to stakeholder for resolution.
• Generate potential site nominals within cluster in collaboration with commercial teams.
• Automate routine tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Telecommunication Engineering
• A team player with excellent problem-solving skills, positive attitude & good work ethics.
• Candidates with Hands–on experience on GSM, WCDMA, LTE Optimization will have an added advantage.
• Practical knowledge on use of any radio planning tools and nominal cell planning.
• Practical knowledge in data analysis and manipulation via Excel tool.
• Candidates with experience on Nokia and/or Huawei equipment will have an added advantage.
• Candidate must be willing to work in any part of the country
• Data science and coding experience will be an added advantage.
• Candidates with knowledge and experience in RAN hardware configuration will have an added advantage.
• Candidates with a valid driving license and experience will have an added advantage  

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Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build and maintain excellent mobile applications with clean code
• Release applications to Google Play and Huawei App stores
• Design and implement user interface components for mobile applications using from prototypes and wireframes
• Write unit, UI, integration and automated tests to ensure error-free code, performance and quality
• Integration to RESTful APIs
• Work with Coroutines to improve performance of the mobile apps
• Identify, plan and implement new mobile products, applications and protocols
• Creating efficient data queries and communicating to back-end developers on API issues
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience
• Work with modern tools including Confluence, Jira, Slack, GitHub etc
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs
• Documenting application changes and developing updates
• Collecting user feedback and optimization of operational experience
• On-going app support, debug and enhancement
• Remain up to date with the technologies, concepts, best practices and news of mobile applications development
• Work closely with colleagues to constantly innovate app functionality and design
• Communicate with users to understand their needs and experiences

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of professional experience working with Android
• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• A very good understanding about mobile applications and programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, SqlLite, XML together with their mainstream IDEs such as Android Studio. 
• Knowledge in Swift, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform and Xcode is an added advantage
• A strong understanding on Single Activity and MVVM architecture patterns and Jetpack components like Navigation
• Experience in RESTful API integrations, Version Control (Git) and DevOps
• An understanding on Security Principles with regard to mobile applications and tech platforms
• Experience in developing Android applications
• A strong desire to learn and figure out how to create market leading user-friendly mobile applications
• Quick to adopt and willingness to work/deliver in a short period
• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience
• Passionate about robust code design
• Knowledge of UI/UX designs and wireframes
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of Android applications