ICT Officer/Application Development & System Analyst

About the role




• Builds and customizes applications, systems and interfaces to support the bank's digital platform, internal processes, and other departments. Provides technical guidance and evaluates software applications used in the bank.



Key responsibilities




• Analyse business requirements and designing, testing and developing software to meet requirements


• Monitor operational efficiency of existing application systems and recommend technical solutions


• Customise and implement acquired software to enable automated functionality


• Analyse user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints


• Modify existing Applications to correct errors, allowing it to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance


• Ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposures


• Conduct regular test of Applications to ensure set functionalities and security parameters are in place


• Timely response to security incidences to avoid adverse consequences to the business


• Work with assigned vendors to implement business systems that meet the banks/user needs and maintaining the applications already developed by daily applications monitoring


• Verify the integrity and availability of all applications reviewing system and application logs


• Design, develop and implement business applications/products for the Bank according to existing corporate software development standards


• Train users on the systems and preparing user documentation during the development of systems


• Carry out Integrations and upgrades of various systems in conjunction with consultants


• Carry out integrations with partner systems


• Support the banks digital delivery Channels


• Maintain the availability and reliability of applications to ensure that ICT can effectively meet service targets in accordance with planned business objectives


• Participate in gathering and /or understanding the organizations business requirements to be addressed /impacted by the supplier's outsourced


• Ensure that proper testing occurs for all Application changes released into the production environments as assigned to you by Line Management



Qualifications and requirements




• At least three years relevant work experience at the grade of ICT Officer II or comparable position


• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, Software Engineering, ICT Project Management, Computer Engineering or other relevant qualifications


• Professional ICT certification in Java, PL/SQL and either JavaScript / JQuery / AJAX, Object Oriented PHP, Python, HTML5/CSS3, Adobe CS


• Knowledge in JSON, XML, SQL, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2), JEE platform, and Linux


• Ability to facilitate technical discussions with other groups to resolve issues


• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the constitution