Jamii Bora Bank Banking Application Officer Job in Kenya Dec 2016
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Jamii Bora Bank Recruitment Position Jan 2017
Jamii Bora Bank
Job Title: Banking Application Officer
Reports To: Team Leader ICT
Core Value Behaviors
Teamwork: ”We work together to make Jamii Bora better”
Innovation: “We are driven by creativity, innovation and continuous improvement”
Professionalism: “We are qualified, skilled and committed to serve our customers”
Integrity: “How we do business is as important as the business we do so we do the right thing always”
Job Purpose: The role holder will be responsible for Core Banking System support, some selected applications and play a key role in various applications integration internally and also externally with corporate customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform core banking database administration.
- Support and ensure core banking system uptime.
- Perform implementation or upgrade of banking application within head office and branches.
- Manage resolution of systems related problems to the core banking and clearing systems.
- Manage system implementation/upgrades of the core banking system and proper change management on systems.
- Ensure that core banking and clearing systems are protected and properly secured.
- To perform any other duty as assigned in line with the organization goals and objective.
Main Activities
- Ensure effective and efficient systems development processes are in place and adopted.
- Perform research on systems development tools, and report results and recommendations.
- Manage and execute the systems development life cycles to produce safe and efficient systems with high quality.
- Oversee systems implementation, and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of systems, and report anomalies
- Design and generate reports/returns according to user specification with the key objective of delivering reports that will assist in decision making and control.
- Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on system configuration or setup.
- Carry out technical user training as required to enable users interpret the reports.
- Assist in preparing system definition/specification by the users highlighting technical requirements.
- Carry-out analysis of the requirements and recommend solutions to address user requirements.
- Design the core banking system according to user specification.
- Carry out technical user training in respect to these systems so that the business can utilize them.
- Roll-out piloted systems to the bank’s branches and users.
- Provide test systems for UAT and ensure that functions/features are tested before being put on the live system.
- Make changes to system configuration and parameters to accommodate business and technological requirements.
- Secure systems by putting adequate controls and restrict access to programs by users in accordance to the requirements of the bank.
- Interact with various corporate customers and develop appropriate solutions to integrate their systems to the bank (Business to Business.)
Qualification and Experience Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science/IT
- At least 3 years working experience in supporting banking systems. (BR.NET added advantage)
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases specifically MS-SQL
- Ability to tolerate stress and achieve objectives despite difficulties
How to Apply
Go to http://www.jamiiborabank.co.ke/careers to apply online