Position: Lead Technology
Posted: 25th February, 2020
Job ID: R-15905455
About Us:
About Us:
NBC
is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of
experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and
investment banking, wealth management products and services.
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Job Description
Product & Service Direction Setting, Solution Design & Performance Management
• Work with the CIO & business product owners to define the product & technical strategy (Full Stack – End to End)
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Act as the single point of partnership & assume responsibility for
managing the senior business interface (product owner) relationship
Assume one stop shop accountability for the delivery of the product & solutions (risk cannot be outsourced to vendors)
Assume one stop shop accountability for the delivery of the product & solutions (risk cannot be outsourced to vendors)
•
Apply design thinking practices to deliver architecturally sound
technical product & service solutions (and explain / guide / coach
others on this architecture holistically and technically)
• Lead
& facilitate the design of the product & or service solution
blueprints aligned to the organization strategy (Short, Medium &
Long Term)
• Collaborate across the tech value chain (CSO, CTO, etc.)
to guide the business on the appropriate technical solution (cost to
value) & the range of strategic technical choices to be made
•
Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for
the design & deployment of products & services with &
across multiple stakeholder groups (Front End, Back End &
Integration) – (aligned to solution blueprints)
• Meaningfully
contribute & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of
the Group Architecture standards, principles, preferences &
practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term
delivery.
• Meaningfully contribute & ensure solutions align to
the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and
practices e.g. OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.
•
Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of products
and services (all applications) – ensuring ongoing optimization &
cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide)
DevOps (with deep knowledge & understanding of context within which we develop architecturally & infrastructurally)
•
Leverage the required expert level (own) skill & knowledge in
architecture & Infrastructure, design and manage all development
& development practices & outputs across squads (apply knowledge
on virtualization, containerization, automation, storage &
serverless technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google, & on prem-Cloud,
etc.)
• Ensure the most optimal design & deployment of technical
products and services in the organization (via pipeline – not manually)
•
Design & Implement Automation Testing, Continuous Integration &
Continuous Delivery Strategies & frameworks across squads for
effective solution development & deployment (understand and apply
expert knowledge in e.g. Kubernetes, Jenkins, TeamCity, Arifactory, MS
Powershell, Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) Tools, APM Tools
(e.g. NewRelic & Splunk) etc.
• Ensure solution designs deliver
on the key technical principles of: self-service, repeatability,
testability, scalability & resilience
• Guide code development
practices and processes through an understanding of complex concepts and
developmental practices such as threading, parallel processing,
asynchronous programming, domain driven design, lambdas etc. &
coding language expertise (e.g. Java, C++, Groovy, Python, Bash, Perl,
Ruby etc.)
• Guide & ensure the delivery of quality development
(code) based on own experience in developing across a range of
applications including but not limited to: server side, client side, web
(SOAP, REST, JSON), socket based programming, batch & real time,
building architectural patterns, security / security domains)
• Effectively manage the DevOps pipeline & associated releases for maximum customer impact & minimum business risk
•
Manage the maintenance & optimization of applications, products
& services as a ‘way of doing things / culture’ within the
development teams. You are fully accountable for the longevity of
applications aligned to Group Architectural practices.
• Coach &
Mentor senior developers across squads on the technical competencies to
effectively deliver on DevOps solutions (see Dev competency model in
skills & competencies section). To do this, display proficiency in
the Senior level competency requirements.
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• With fluency in the deployment of agile methodologies, resource & manage the appropriate number and nature (skill & capability) of squad based teams to execute on both Run & Change elements of delivery
• Work in collaboration with transformation & change teams for effective resourcing and delivery management of various programmes at all levels (SI, BU etc.)
• Ensure agile practices are implemented and sustained for effective delivery to business e.g. RETRO’s etc.
• Positively & proactively manage product owner relationships including building product owner technical capability to enable balanced & best fit decision making
• Proactively engage with & partner CTO, CSO, SE, Risk and broader enablement functions to drive alignment & leading practice in technology design & deployment
People
• Set & Cascade Product & Service direction across squads
• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand)
• Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)
• Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy (always!)
• Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services
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Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance
• Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with technical decision making (from ideation to deployment)
• Manage & Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks
• Ensure decisions on infrastructure & product design are aligned to chapter & guild guidelines & are sustainable for the enterprise
• Proactively involve / engage chapter & guild leads in product design & infrastructure decision making, applying an enterprise wide lens to product & service development
• Manage all vendor selection processes & take full accountability for all related commercial impact
• Negotiate best fit contracts for the organization at an enterprise level and align decision making to our key business principles of scalability, resilience, captivity etc.
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)
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Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology, Experience in a similar environment ideally at executive management level
Position: Bancassurance Claims & Underwriting Manager
Posted: 22nd February, 2020
Job ID: R-15906342
About Us:
NBC is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and investment banking, wealth management products and services.
NBC is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and investment banking, wealth management products and services.
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Job Description
Claims
assessment: Assess and/or process claims following standard operating
procedures | Customer Experience: Handle all customer interactions
professionally and efficiently | Ad Hoc duties: Provide support to
customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing
basis | Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that all team activities
are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and
quality standards.
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Qualifications
Business
Improvement Orientation (Meets some of the requirements and would need
further development), Digital familiarity (Meets all of the
requirements), Enabling team success (Meets some of the requirements and
would need further development), Experience in a similar environment,
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC) - Insurance and Risk
Management, Openness to change (Meets some of the requirements and would
need further development), Operational administration (Meets some of
the requirements and would need further development), Product and/or
Service Knowledge (Meets some of the requirements and would need further
development), Quality orientation (Meets some of the requirements and
would need further development)
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Position: Specialist Product Engineer (Java)
Posted: 20th February, 2020
Job ID: R-15906120
About Us:
NBC
is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of
experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and
investment banking, wealth management products and services.
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Job Description
DevOps
•
Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in
an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back
End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
•
Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution
development & provide recommendations to enable the operational
feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
•
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation
principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability
& resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
•
Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring &
supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to
multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your
applications all the way to production)
•
Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g.
aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana /
NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
•
Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan
& manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management,
testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
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Software Engineer Requirements
• 2-5 years experience
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Excellent understanding of java 8 +
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven development
• Experience with one or more of the following application frameworks: Spring
• Solid understanding of messaging protocol like SOAP and REST
• Experience with open-source relational database management system
• Knowledge of server application containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss
• Good understanding frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
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Experience with CI / CD servers (preferably Jenkins) and Artifact
Management (preferably Nexus), ability to create and maintain
sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
• Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
• Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
• Familiar with OAuth and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos as well
• Familiar with Docker
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Duties and Responsibilities
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You will be working with a team of very technically strong team who are
working on delivering high quality solutions and will have the
opportunity to learn and develop
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Ability to demonstrate your knowledge of critical thinking and problem solving
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Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem
definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Ability to solve unique technical problems
• Work independently when required
• Continuously learn and improve skills
• Attention to detail is essential and all tasks must be carried out to the highest standard
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Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology, Experience in a similar environment.
