Fresh Jobs at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Achieve sales targets (both Retail & Insurance) in accordance with the budgets provided; Deliver exceptional sales performance by identifying and meeting customer needs through selling & cross selling of General and Life insurance products.
• Retention of customers within the assigned portfolio – Ensure retention ratio of 85%.
• Drive the life Insurance Sales and ensure that set sales budgets are met.
• Provide pipeline data as requested. Monitor own sales performance on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis and provide results to the Sales Managers.
• Own customer queries and complaints around insurance products and resolve in a timely manner.  Escalate any unresolved queries to the Line Manager or the Head Office Bancassurance team.
• Ensure accuracy of each application and all other customer documents. Accountable for the accuracy and quality of each application and supporting documents completed and submitted. 
• Ensure all claims are reported to Head office Bancassurance team as guided while providing timely feedback to the clients. Assist the client to attach relevant documentation and have claim forms well completed.
• Ensure premiums are collected strictly as per the credit control policy. 
• Conduct Branch staff training on Bancassurance products.
• Ensure compliance to the Group’s policies in delivering day-to-day business expectations.

The Person:

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

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from a university recognized by Commission of University Education.
• Master’s degree is an added advantage.

Professional Qualifications

Ideal candidate must have either of below:

• Certificate of Proficiency in Insurance (Executive certificate of Proficiency in Insurance 
• COP Exemption Certificate 

Work Experience:

• At least 1 year of experience in sales.
• Strong knowledge of Insurance Products.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation and other testing preparation activities.
• Formal reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements document with cross-functional teams.
• Perform effort estimates for projects QA activities and tasks and develop plans and schedules based on the estimates.
• Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks.
• Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems and develop new test automation solutions as needed.
• Design, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts.
• Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
• Monitor test execution across multiple code branches and multiple platforms and performing code reviews.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional
Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification    Need Type

• Education  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study     RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ  (Certified Manager of Software Quality)    AA
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)     AA

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ of Technical Experience Required

2 years

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type

• Software Development Experience 2 RQ
• Software Quality Assurance 2 AA
• Software Test Automation 2 AA

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide direction and guidance to product design teams to meet timely deliveries.
• Supervise team on daily basis in product design and development activities.
• Provide design solutions to meet cost-effectiveness and on-time deliveries.
• Validate product designs, identify constraints and provide corrective actions.
• Evaluate the design of new and existing products. It involves conducting thorough analysis and assessment of product specifications.
• Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs.
• Understand and negotiate the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Contribute to product direction conversations, with emphasis on leading the experience vision for the product areas.
• Meets regularly with strategic business partners to review current challenges, uncover root causes, recommend course correction, and implement strategies to support implementation effectiveness based on feedback.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

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

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Technology or Engineering related field (Required).
• Professional Qualifications/Certification in Business Analysis Certification is an added advantage. 
• At least 5 years progressive experience in Information Technology (Essential).
• 5 years’ experience in Computer systems and functions knowledge (Essential).
• 5 years’ experience in Business analysis (Essential).
• 3 years' experience in stakeholder Management (Essential). 
• 1 year experience in Project Management (Desired).

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Job Description

• Build Data Pipelines: Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines to reliably ingest, process, and consolidate data from diverse sources at scale. 
• Data Modeling and Warehousing: Build and manage efficient data models, data warehouses, and data platforms to support BI and advanced analytics initiatives. 
• ETL/ELT Optimization: Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for maximum performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency. 
• Data Quality and Governance: Implement and enforce standards for data quality, security, and governance across all data assets. 
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune data pipelines, and systems for performance and reliability. 
• Production Integration: Support the deployment and integration of machine learning models and analytical products into production and enable automation of solutions. 
• Requirements Collaboration: Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver clean, reliable, and well-documented datasets. 
• Architecture and Strategy: Contribute to the overall data strategy, architecture design, and continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Reporting and Metrics Automation: Develop and automate metrics, dashboards, and reports to monitor data governance trends, such as data quality. 
• Technical Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation on data pipelines, configurations, setups, and deployment of data solutions.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using Java , JBasic 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 non- functional requirements. 
• Expose integration interfaces from the core banking using Temenos Web Services (TWS) and connect to third party utilities from core banking to gateway. 
• Implement and support all customizations and initiatives across the group business i.e. DFS, Retail, Corporate, Operations, Credit and subsidiaries.
• 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. 
• 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.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 

 Academic & Professional 

Particulars     Detail    Specific Field or Qualification     Need Type 4

• Bachelor s Degree    Any Degree    RQ
• Education    Professional Qualifications    T24 certification    DE
• Java programming certification
• DevOps tools e.g. Azure DevOps / Git
• Certification in cloud technologies e.g.
• Kubernetes ,,  OCP
• MASTERS    MBA/Msc    AA

Experience 

Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required

• 5 years

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type 5

• Experience developing in JBasic (T24) for TAFC and TAFJ  5 RQ
• Experience developing Java based applications. 2 RQ
• Experience in development in following technologies: Java 1.8+, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Restful Services (JAX- RS), RESTand SOAP API, Java 2 DE
• Testing Frameworks(JUnit, Mockito, PowerMockito), Microservices,
• Understanding of Cloud infrastructure, JPA/JDBI, Openshift. 2 AA     
• Experience in Banking Operations  2 RQ
• Experience in developing Continuous
• Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using varioustools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository 2 DE
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment. 2 DE