Jobs at Azenia

Job Purpose

The backend developer will be responsible for building scalable RESTFul APIs, the server-side application logic, integration with both internal and external systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy, Planning & ExecutionDesign, build and maintain efficient RESTFul APIs in FIX (Trading Gateway) &/or MITCH (Market Data Feed) protocolsBuild Reusable Code and Library for Future UseDesign and Implementation of data storage solutionsWork with Frontend and Mobile App developers to define RESTFul API specsWork well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high value resultsParticipating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field5+ years’ experience developing applications in FIX (Trading Gateway) &/or MITCH (Market Data Feed) protocolsExperience with SOAP and REST servicesGood understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practicesFamiliarity with container technologies like Docker and K8sExperience with SQL Server, Oracle Database and MongoDBExperience with cloud technologies Azure/AWSExperience with OAuth and JWT TokensKnowledge of API Management solutionsKnowledge of Microservice ArchitectureExperience with gRPCExperience with Kafka

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Job Purpose

The Business Process Re-engineering Specialist is responsible for leading Business Process Reengineering initiatives across the Group. The role applies process improvement and re-engineering methodologies and principles to drive efficiency and effectiveness of Business Processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive proposals for the most efficient future process, automation, and continuous monitoring of the re-engineered business processes.
• Identifying and applying global best practices.
• Creating, and assessing process performance measurements, and striving for continuous improvement.
• Drive effective transitioning of the changes through project activities and objectives.
• Identify process improvement opportunities, before applying lean principles to improve and redesign the target business processes.
• Develop and manage the processes for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided through the digital and physical channels.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree in Information Systems or related field will be an added advantage
• 5- 10 years’ experience in Process Reengineering and Automation
• Detailed understanding of the BPM mapping and process automation
• Detailed experience in the banking industry with emphasis on Digital Banking (CASA, Credit, Trade Finance, Operations)
• Detailed and proven experience in Agile development environment with specific familiarity with SCRUM
• BPMN 2.0 technical knowledge

Special Requirement

• Detailed understanding of BPM systems based on BPMN 2.0 standard

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Job Purpose

The candidate will apply data mining techniques and conduct statistical analysis to large, structured and unstructured data sets to understand and analyse phenomena. Model complex business problems, discovering insights and opportunities through statistical, algorithmic, machine learning and visualisation techniques, working closely with clients, data and technology teams to turn data into critical information used to make sound business decisions. Execute intelligent automation and predictive modelling.

Responsibilities:

• Develop advanced ML (such as fraud etc) Credit scoring models for different business scorecards using ensemble algorithms in python.
• Conduct EDA, data extraction, data cleaning and documentation of created models
• Engage central team ensuring laid down best practices are followed
• Develop models which do not deviate too much from developed algorithms for Kenya
• Engage business stakeholders to glean from domain knowledge in creating fit for purpose algorithms
• Ensure codes are refactored for data engineering pipeline
• Engage assigned data engineers to promote developed models to production
• Engage scrum masters and project managers in a timely manner on a periodic basis to provide project updates
• Delivering projects within the allocated timeline
• Multitask by building more than one algorithm at each time

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology/ Information Studies and/or any other relevant course
• Proven development experience in software and software engineering.
• Understanding of financial services data processes, systems, and products.
• Experience in technical business intelligence.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data principles.
• Project management experience.
• Exposure to governance and regulatory matters as it relates to data.
• Experience in building models (credit scoring, propensity models, churn, etc.).
• Candidate should have 5 – 8 years of experience.
• Experience with unstructured data (e.g. Streams, images)
• Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data.
• Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets.
• Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc.
• Experience with data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Proficiency in application and web development. Structured and Unstructured Query languages e.g. SQL, Qlikview; SSIS SSRS, Python, JSON , C#, Java, C++, HTML

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Job Purpose

As a Technical Delivery Manager, you would be responsible for directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications. You would also coordinate the development staff’s schedule and ensure effective communication between team members and other functional areas. Additionally, you will be expected to provide feedback and suggestions for process and product improvement and act as a technical mentor and adviser.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy, Planning and Execution
• To define, maintain and communicate each technical project plan within one or more Core System Releases.
• Reporting of the progress of each project based on transparent KPIs and the current RAG status.
• Point of contact to engage and provide support to business and technical stakeholders of the project.
• To work closely with key business owners/stakeholders, Business project managers and the IT delivery teams to ensure a high quality, on time project to agreed scope.
• Ensure quality gate criteria is met at each gate, and where this is not met communicating the impact of this back to the relevant stakeholder.
• Managing any conflicts within the Project to ensure these do not impact the delivery of the project and ultimately the release.
• To manage all elements of the end-to-end project process ensuring issues, risks and dependencies are managed appropriately.
• Running regular Project progress review meetings, as relevant for each phase within the delivery of the Project.
• Capture learnings and improvements as we progress through the Project that the Release Management team can apply to future projects within future releases.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the Project Management approach and processes and ensure that adherence to process is maintained for each project

Requirements

Personal Attributes

• Must be able and willing to collaborate in a team/cooperative environment as well as exercise independent judgment and initiative.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Is extremely logical, detail oriented with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and meet multiple project deadlines.
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
• Highly self-motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures.
• Structured thinker, effective communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Have a four-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university.
• 6+ years hands-on as a software engineer.
• 3+ years in technical leadership and/or engineering management role.
• Senior technical proficiency in at least one core language (.NET core, Java, JavaScript). Full stack experience will be an added advantage.
• A strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern environments and build pipelines, standards and best practices, and development tools.
• Experience leading remote Engineering delivery teams in software development, technology consulting, and/or software product management.
• Experience working in an agile environment, with a strong understanding of roles, processes, core metrics, and how to strategically increase team velocity.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills and can work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

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Job Purpose

The role of a Head of UX design is to drive end-to-end user experience design, including research, ideation, conception, detailed design, prototypes and validation across multiple products and areas. Working across multiple cross functional product teams, the Head of UX will seek to create and influence the creation of the ultimate user experience to create business impact while ensuring a consistent design language.

Job Responsibilities

• Shape the future of payments, financial inclusion and innovation.
• Collaborate with different teams to design experiences that cut across different audiences, technologies and platforms.
• Understand our digital products and their capabilities. 
• Craft, present and iterate on design solutions.
• Measure the success of your solutions with the team and iterate on them.
• Conduct user testing and research. 
• Contribute to our design system, practices, process and culture.
• Support the team through never-ending curiosity and excitement.

Requirements

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of designing products on web and mobile platforms. Financial institution experience will be an added advantage.
• 6 years+ experience managing and leading a UX team, playing a senior role either as a Visual Designer, Interaction/UI Designer or UX Researcher.
• 6 years+ of leading and inspiring design teams.
• Must provide a strong work portfolio that demonstrates a deep understanding and application of UI best practices.
• Experience setting up user research programs and testing methodologies that drive design decisions.
• Proven and successful working experience in information architecture, consumer experience design, interaction design, or a similar role.
• Experience using design tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator.
• Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3 Java script.
• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Interpersonal and people skills that facilitate smooth interactions between himself and all the parties as well as enable the smooth performance of tasks in cross-functional settings.

Personal Attributes

• Must be able and willing to collaborate in a team/cooperative environment as well as exercise independent judgment and initiative.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Is extremely logical, detail oriented with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and meet multiple project deadlines.
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
• Highly self-motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures.
• Structured thinker, effective communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills.

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Responsibilities

• Engage internal stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Engages external stakeholders such as Microsoft to conduct trainings and facilitate the resolution of niche BI development issues
• Ensure positive stakeholder engagements throughout the lifecycle of a task or project
• Lead data analyst and oversee their developments works ensuring the data presented is accurate, meets visualization best practices and is aesthetically pleasing to the eye
• Develop and maintain BI applications and dashboards
• Manage administration of business intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI, Tableau etc
• Support data analyst, data scientist and data engineers, ensuring proper execution of their duties and alignment with the Company objectives.
• Provide BI expertise and responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business intelligence solutions.
• Create mock-ups, prototypes and develop visualization requirements by working with business teams & users
• Work with the Data warehouse platform development team to understand the reporting sources to facilitate real-time reporting to operate in both analytical and operational capacities
• Work with visualizing structured and unstructured data sets
• Scale developments of BI solutions to other countries
• Manage and support migration of objects (dimensions, measures, hierarchies, reports, workbooks, dashboards, scorecards, savings & utilization, etc) from development to production environments
• Develop and format stored procedures in T-SQL
• Communicate with non-technical employees to define report request and limitations
• Ensure proper data governance and quality across all developments

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Statistics, Software Engineering, Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field.
• 5-7 years experience in BI developments with a preference for the finance industry
• Should have excellent hands-on development experience with Power BI, and Microsoft tools such as word, power point and excel
• Should have advanced level SQL/TSQL experience and able to implement the business logic through stored procedures.
• Skilled in handling multiple deadline driven assignments with the ability to initiate, supervise and complete projects and assignments with minimal supervision
• A broad exposure to various Business Intelligence platforms. Position requires excellent technical and communication skills. The ability to manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously is a requirement of this position. Very detailed oriented.
• Willingness to learn, be open minded to new ideas and different opinions yet knowing when to stop, analyze, and reach a decision
• Some basic knowledge of data science and data engineering is preferred
• The candidate must also have a proven and successful experience track record of leading high-performing data analyst teams
• Ms Office/Software: Outstanding skills in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, which will all be necessary for the creation of both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations, for senior data science management, executives, and stakeholders.
• The candidate must also demonstrate exceptionally good skills in SQL server reporting services, analysis services, PowerBI, integration services, or any other data visualization tools.
• Technological Savvy/Analytical Skills: Technologically adept and especially demonstrate an understanding of database and computer software.
• Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate for this position will be a team-builder, be result-oriented, be proactive and self-driven requiring minimal supervision, be open and welcoming to change, be a creative and strategic thinker, have innovative problem-solving skills, be highly organized, have an ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks prioritize and meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate calmness in times of uncertainty and stress.
• People Skills: a people person who is able to form strong, lasting, and meaningful bonds with others people. This will make him an approachable and trustworthy individual who junior personnel readily follow and who senior Data and Analytics executives and stakeholders trust and who’s insights they give credit to, making execution of his duties much easier.