Technology Department, Tanzania. IT Applications Developer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute application development initiatives to the overall IT strategy.
• Work with business units to formulate banking products and contribute technical guidance to the procurement process.
• Analyze product requirements and design best-fit architecture and solutions guided by KCBT policies and industry best practice.
• Manage the project resources, schedule, costs, stakeholders, and the application development lifecycle
• Implement best practice and deploy appropriate tools to manage and govern application development and the IT change process.
• Actively engage end-users to assess satisfaction and achieve successful project closure.
• Work with functional teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
• Identify and champion innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Manage the team’s performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish sustainable practice.
• Develop, execute and measure OLAs and SLAs with IT functional teams and business units respectively.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate and analyze requests to implement new applications to resolve business challenges and improve efficiency of processes.

• Evaluate and analyze requests to modify existing software systems and applications where either anomalies have been detected or the process is inefficient.

• Distribute and manage the workload among the application developers.

• Manage the application development life cycle, ensuring that the application development policy is adhered to.

• Engage with business in formulating strategies that ride on software systems to take advantage of business opportunities

• Provide support to the banking operations administrators and operators in resolving core banking anomalies and refining operations.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

        a. Academic & Professional

1. Experience