6 JOB POSITIONS AT Bank of Kigali : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

6 JOB POSITIONS AT Bank of Kigali : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

 

 

JOB AT Bank of Kigali : Data Management Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

Job Summary

 

Data Management Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity in the area of data management as a bank. The lead will oversee the governance and management of critical data entities at the Bank. The role of the individual will be to ensure the quality, conformity and maintenance of the Bank’s Master data/ Reference Data. The Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through the design of data governance model and the implementation of the data warehouse.

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in Rwanda. The lead will participate in assessing the existing universal banking to implement and map the business requirement to the model bank. Though it is a highly technical role, it is one that requires the candidate to demonstrate the ability to partner with the business and IT leadership to understand the organization’s business requirements and to build and execute a roadmap to fulfill the same. In addition, the candidate will have vast experience in Information Architecture, Data Security, Quality, Governance models, Data Warehousing and Analytics, to build upon our existing enterprise data foundation and expand corporate best practices.

 

 

 

Key Accountabilities

 

Managing master data; Overseeing the various data domains of the bank, ensuring conformity across the domains and ensuring that all business terms have an auditable lineage to their source, Managing all data entities content, Managing the security, i.e. permissions to alter the data entities
Implement master data management standards, enforce data governance procedures and ensure data integrity across multiple platforms
Lead business requirements and technical design discussions as subject matter expert
Liaising with the various Lines of Business to assist in remediating technical data inconsistencies and errors to ensure that the Master Data is always clean and up to date.
Maintaining the Master Data Solution; Designing and building new data domains as in when the need arises, Maintaining and updating the existing data domains, Profile the data at regular intervals to ensure quality
Maintaining the overall ETL solution to ensure that data delivered to the Data Warehouse is clean, complete, accurate and conformed.
Partner, negotiate and influence a broad range of stakeholders from the front to back office including operational process owners, controllers and senior managers
Collaborate across the Firm with data managers and key stakeholders to implement key business processes, policies, and strategies
Interacts with the project roles as required, to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context, and organizational strategic direction
Other professional tasks on the orders of his superiors, in accordance with the scope of work and responsibilities

 

 

Experience

 

3+ years of software development experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience in Data management.
Must have hands-on experience with development solutions – Data modelling, Data Integration, Data validation, Match and Merge rules and Data stewardship
Financial Services domain experience required.
Proficiency with ETL tools (Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Preferred)
Experience with Cloud Database technologies is desired – Azure/AWS – Data Lake architecture/implementation experience
Ability to act as a bridge between IT and Business users.
Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills; strong ability to be an active listener; ability to present complex, technical ideas in a clear and concise manner to non-technical audiences
Collaborative team player with a strong work ethic that works effectively in cross functional team environment
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or Financial Technology

 

 

Knowledge

 

 

Detailed understanding of data governance and data profiling concepts
Solid understanding of Master Data Management (MDM) architectures and business processes
Solid understanding and experience with Database technologies (SQL Server, Oracle etc.), Business Intelligence platform (Micro Strategy, tableau, PowerBI etc), ETL and scheduling tools required

 

Expression of Interest

 

Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019

 

 

 

 

JOB AT Bank of Kigali : Tech Architect Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

Job Summary

 

Tech Architect Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity for managing T24, ERP and other banking application. The Tech Architect Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through an implementation of Enterprise IT Architecture, migration of data, cutover and integration of T24 Transact CBS application across the business.

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in Rwanda. The role will own and facilitate architecture development; defines future state architecture and roadmap; provides feedback on application designs; provides input on company-wide initiatives; drives innovation; leads technologist through major refactoring initiatives; embeds with engineering teams to jump-start complex projects; drives the technical roadmap of enterprise platforms and helps raise the talent bar by recruiting and hiring top engineering talent. This role also requires significant interaction with business, technical stakeholders and external partners

 

 

 

Key Accountabilities

Align technology architecture with technology and business strategy and goals. This includes research, recommend, and introduce new technologies consistent with the objectives of the company
Set and drive execution on an inspiring technology roadmap
Lead creation of architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger business/IT alignment and that drive adoption and value.
Provide innovative enterprise solutions, builds consensus and provides architectural oversight for technology initiatives
Demonstrate breakthrough thinking in defining and prototyping the use of leading-edge technologies and capabilities
Architect simple yet innovative solutions that successfully translate business requirements into enterprise technology solutions
Lead conceptual / planning level of the application architecture in collaboration with functional team, development, Integrations, information security, and IT teams.
Provides key architecture vision, roadmap, integration and problem-solving at an enterprise level.
Established and maintain next-generation architecture/standards for the Transformation Program.
Creation of solutions that account for all key technical aspects such as software, hardware, and networking components. Architects scalable, high performing, and highly available solutions that are commercially viable from a cost perspective.
Collaborates with all necessary functional areas (as needed) to vet solutions. This includes Project Management, IT security, software engineering, product management, operations, finance, etc.

 

Experience

 

At least 10 years of experience in IT, Business Architecture or Software Engineering
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a solutions architect role
3-5 years of people management experience.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience evaluating business requirements and designing complete technical or business solutions in complex environments
Temenos T24 implementation experience in a banking environment is a big plus
Experience with micro-services architecture, cloud-native architecture and 12-factor application architecture principles and implementation
Experience with modern data and analytical platform architectures and use of AI and Machine Learning
Significant experience with AWS technologies including infrastructure, server less and CI/CD
Experience in agile development practices & methodologies such as Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)
Experience in implementing resilient cloud applications and platform services on AZURE/AWS.
Experience in documenting and developing an enterprise architecture for portfolio and project views, including current state architecture, future state architecture; dependencies between applications, solutions, technology capabilities, business capabilities etc.
Designed and documented conceptual, logical and physical hardware, software and application architecture for enterprise applications.
Previous development experience (Java or C#, JavaScript, HTML, XML, AJAX, or relevant open source platforms)
Highly professional and has excellent interpersonal and communication skills

 

Qualifications

 

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline.
AZURE/AWS Certified Solution Architect, TOGAF or Zachman certifications a big plus.

 

Knowledge

 

Understanding of RDBMS; knowledge of MSSQL, DB2 and Oracle RDMS is a big plus
Solid working knowledge of at an enterprise architecture framework such as TOGAF
Strong good understanding of the architectural principals of cloud-based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure and application servers.
Understanding of enterprise application integration, including SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL environments and an understanding of integration considerations such as process orchestration, customer data integration, analytics, and master data management.
A good understanding of security processes and standards.
Knowledge and experience developing inventories of business capabilities, business process, use cases, platforms, technical capabilities and assembling those into meaningful and understandable models
Knowledge and experience in the design and delivery of enterprise architecture outputs and artifacts including EA assessments and application architecture resource models

 

Expression of Interest

 

Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019

 

 

 

 

 

JOB AT Bank of Kigali : ERP Functional Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

 

Job Summary

 

ERP Functional Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Aheza Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity for managing our financials, administration/Procurement and human resources operations. The Functional Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through an assessment, selection and implementation process for a new ERP solution, and manage its continuing evolution beyond the initial implementation..

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in Rwanda. It is based in Rwanda and requires minimal travel.

 

The functional Lead will participate assessing the existing environment of financial, administration and HR applications while leading the organization in the selection and implementation of a robust, highly integrated solution. Though it is a highly technical role, it is one that requires the candidate to demonstrate the ability to partner with the business and IT leadership to understand the organization’s business requirements and to build and execute a roadmap to fulfill the same.

 

 

Key Accountabilities

 

Identify, select, and lead the implementation of a new ERP platform with preference for cloud solutions
Create and execute a roadmap for project deliverables based on requirements and collaboration with organizational constituencies
Building an in-depth knowledge of business success drivers, industry trends, regulatory issues and the competitive marketplace to deliver solutions which will have a measurable impact on service delivery
Oversee definition of business requirements, business process mappings, benefit analysis, etc…
Leads analysis, design, modeling, testing, and implementation activities within the areas of responsibilities;
Manage relationships with ERP vendors, including vendor evaluations, risk assessments, and ongoing strategic relationships

Lead a cross-functional team and all outside consultants as needed in the planning, development, and ongoing maintenance of the ERP
Collaborate with IT and business leadership to prioritize IT changes and projects
Work closely with IT and business leadership in determining and implementing standards for reporting, analytics, data security, compliance, and user training and support
Oversee and manage internal and external systems/applications/process development projects from inception through successful implementation to insure timely, effective completion and compliance
Responsible for all aspects of ERP system adoption, change management, and training

 

 

 

Experience

 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or Financial Technology Minimum of 5 to 10 years’ experience in implementing and supporting ERP applications
Experience with cloud-based ERP solutions
Solid understanding of architecture with specific hands-on experience with ERP applications;
Strong knowledge and understanding of functional and business integration processes
Demonstrated expertise in leading ERP migration projects; examples of successful projects
should be included in application materials
Minimum 2 years’ experience using Agile or similar principals to translate business needs and deliver products of measurable value
Good knowledge of MS Office package (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio)
Concepts for Integration (i.e. Integration of data or user accounts between multiple systems for a client.)
Role of an ESB for event driven messaging and orchestration
Experience in the design and implementation of multi-layer interface
Experience in DevOps (CI/CD) and Agile methodologies and tools – e.g. JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, Maven or any other automated testing tools is an added Advantage

 

Qualifications

 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or Financial Technology with a minimum of 5 years of experience in software development including T24 implementation experience in a banking environment
Knowledge
You have Industry experience, Banking, Retail, Insurance etc
You have an ERP Certification in any of the top ERP providers
You’ve got external consulting experience
You’re an ace at managing and delivering projects
You’re great at working creatively in a problem-solving environment

 

Expression of Interest

 

Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019

 

 

 

 

JOB AT Bank of Kigali : Integration Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

Job Summary

 

Integration Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity for integrating various banking systems such as T24, ERP and other banking application. The Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through implementation of Service Oriented Architecture integration that enables various applications to communicate to each other.

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in Rwanda. The lead will participate in assessing the existing universal banking to implement and map the business requirement to the model bank. Though it is a highly technical role, it is one that requires the candidate to demonstrate the ability to partner with the business and IT leadership to understand the organization’s business requirements and to build and execute a roadmap to fulfill the same also requires significant interaction with business, technical stakeholders and external partners

 

 

 

Key Accountabilities

The key roles and responsibilities include but not limited to:

 

Provide design and delivery of integration solutions to enable plug and play of Banks platforms as well as third-party eco systems.
In partnership with peers in other bank teams, help the buildout of an Integration practice to help deliver legacy modernization and cloud enablement; and evolve our systems of records, systems of integration and Web platforms
Exercise experience and influence to make well informed build vs buy and integration decisions in our rapidly growing and evolving environment and lead delivery of the solutions.
Collaborate and develop relationships with delivery teams and other Enterprise technology teams by partnering, sharing and leveraging best practices and solutions
Mentor and guide peers and junior talent to help create a pool of technically strong subject matter experts
Initiate and administers the control parameters, process flows of the Enterprise Service Bus for new integration.
Evaluate technologies, drive consensus, create proof-of-concept and frameworks Architect, Design & Develop Security & integration components for data extraction, & internal /external application integration.
Collaborate with Security, Development, Infrastructure & Service delivery team to develop secured frameworks components and applications.
Design and enhance highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems to meet increasing levels of reliability, availability, scalability.
Develop architecture that meets security guidelines and security standards of integration
Prepare architecture, design and build documentations of the systems Test, new changes or new products/enhancements in business applications.

 

Experience

 

5 – 7 years of experience working in IT, System Integrator(s) or technology teams of banking/financial institutions.
2 – 3 years of experience in leading the development and/or integration in large-scale digital transformation and digital process automation programs.
2 – 3 years of experience in development and design of technology products on digital platforms (i.e. Digital Process Orchestration, Business Process Management and/or cloud-based APIs)
Demonstrate solid architectural knowledge with cloud-based technology stacks, including but not limited to AWS and Azure technology stacks.
Must possess an engineering mind-set and must have experience designing and delivering solutions based on SOA, APIs, Microservices, ESB and other iPaas products with proven experience in legacy integration techniques
System integration with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and BPM will be added advantage.
Experience in Core Banking System Integration and Interfaces such as T24 Integration Framework, Amplitude Integration (AIX), etc…
Web Services interaction and development for the data access from the data platform is required
Message based application development using JMS, MQ Series/Rabbit MQ.
Web services standards and related technology knowledge (WSDL SOAP, Rest, XML, XSD, etc.)
Ability to quickly learn new technologies, think logically and solve problems independently.
Development experience in a Cross-platform, multi-tier environment
Ability to think analytically and logically; and work independently or as part of a team
Ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical business personnel.
Ability to work autonomously and under pressure;
Good communication and interpersonal skills.

 

Qualifications

 

Bachelor’s degree or Master (MBA/MS) degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, mathematics or business.

 

Knowledge

 

Knowledge in using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to manage interfaces such as Fiorano, Mule, Oracle Entitlement Server, IBM Integration Bus (IIB), etc…
Knowledge of development languages and Scripting such as Java, Ruby, Node.Js, XSLT, JavaScript, etc. Skills of modern development frameworks will be an advantage.
Knowledge in Administration of application server Websphere, Peer Servers, and MQ Series
Expression of Interest
Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019

 

 

 

 

JOB AT Bank of Kigali : T24 Developer Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

Job Summary

 

T24 Developer Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity for managing T24, ERP and other banking application. The T24 Developer Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through an implementation, migration, cutover and integration of T24 Transact, FRM and FCM application across the business.

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in Rwanda. The lead will participate in assessing the existing universal banking to implement and map the business requirement to the model bank. Though it is a highly technical role, it is one that requires the candidate to demonstrate the ability to partner with the business and IT leadership to understand the organization’s business requirements and to build and execute a roadmap to fulfill the same

 

 

Key Accountabilities

 

The key roles and responsibilities include but not limited to:

 

 

Take a lead role in local T24 development capabilities and trains junior developers.
Analysis of business and technical requirements to create the required local development
Assists in Data migration and related activities.
Conducts Performance optimization
Identify, define and coordinate any development activities that may occur during the implementation of TEMENOS products, such as additional specific functionality, interfacing to external systems or conversion programs to be built
Install custom enhancements and validate technical setup and conduct necessary testing to ensure user acceptance and global quality of the solution delivered
Provide clear and concise technical documentation
Conduct end user technical training as necessary
Coordinate with the TEMENOS maintenance groups to ensure that the product problems identified are understood and resolved
Cooperation with the functional lead and Technical Lead in defining specifications support in testing, customization and parameterization
Participation in the development of banking modules
Programming of new routines, edit existing ones, optimization and improvement of existing solutions
Designs, prepares and executes unit tests
Work on corrections within the existing system. Internal testing of the modules in the integral whole; the work of the technical documentation
Applies specialized knowledge to conceptualize, design, develop, unit-test, configure, and implement portions of new or enhanced (upgrades or conversions) business and technical software solutions
through application of appropriate standard software development life cycle methodologies and processes

Interacts with the project roles as required, to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context, and organizational strategic direction
Other professional tasks on the orders of his superiors, in accordance with the scope of work and responsibilities

 

 

 

Experience

 

The advantage of the experience of working on a Linux system
Experience in optimizing code, work on services for data processing and multithreaded programming
Have the ability to translate requirements and ideas into proper functional and technical design documents
Experience in Core T24 Modules (System Core tables,FT,TT,PP,Customer,Account)
Demonstrate your skills in T24 template programming and T24 customization (VERSION, ENQUIRY, online services)
Working experience of Batch / COB
Bonus knowledge on TAFJ preferred
Programming in Infobasic, Java, Javascript. Application Servers (jBOSS, Web Sphere, Web Logic) OS (Windows, RedHat Linux, IBM AIX) Understanding of RDBMS; knowledge of MSSQL, DB2 and Oracle RDMS. Exposure to mainframes.
Understands at a good level industry concept such as: Java VMs and artefacts (WAR and EAR files), performance tuning, JMS; Concepts for Integration (i.e. Integration of data or user accounts between multiple systems for a client.), Role of an ESB for event driven messaging and orchestration
Experience in the design and implementation of multi-layer interface
Experience in DevOps (CI/CD) and Agile methodologies and tools – e.g. JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, Maven or any other automated testing tools is an added Advantage

 

Qualifications

 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or Financial Technology with a minimum of 5 years of experience in software development including T24 implementation experience in a banking environment.
Knowledge
Knowledge of basic algorithms and programming standards
Knowledge of relational databases. Experience in writing stored procedures
Knowledge of OO programming and design as well as the Java programming language
Understands T24 logging and monitoring
Knowledgeable of SMS – Security Management system
Understands Data Protection, (Encryption, masking, …)

 

Expression of Interest

 

 

Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019

 

 

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JOB AT Bank of Kigali : T24 Functional Lead : ( Deadline : 09 August 2019 )

 

 

 

Business Unit

Aheza Program

 

 

Job Summary

 

T24 Functional Lead is a newly created role in Bank of Kigali under the Transformation Program. This is an opportunity for a highly capable and experienced leader to help elevate and transform our capacity for managing T24 operations. The Functional Lead will be given the opportunity to lead us through an implementation, migration, cutover and integration of T24 Transact, FRM and FCM application across the business.

 

 

This position offers the right candidate a visible role in a long-established and highly respected Bank in The functional lead will participate assessing the existing universal banking to implement and mapping the business requirement to the model bank. Though it is a highly technical role, it is one that requires the candidate to demonstrate the ability to partner with the business and IT leadership to understand the organization’s business requirements and to build and execute a roadmap to fulfill the same

 

 

 

Key Accountabilities

The key roles and responsibilities include but not limited to:

Serving as the single point of contact for the holistic functional solution for T24 and for external systems that need to consume the T24 data
Identify and lead business efforts towards solution fitment, gap analysis, business requirements and efforts working closely with the Subject Matter Experts from various business units.
Serving as the responsible Lead Business Analyst for the project
Acting as the liaison between the business and Tech Architect team to ensure good collaboration
Challenging business requirements in order to facilitate the adopt vs. adapt concept: Adopt to T24, rather than Adapt existing business processes and functions, thereby reducing locally built deviations (L3 code)
Attending Bank Architectural meetings / discussions as multiple integrations with T24 is required
Assisting and guiding the bank on how to migrate, suggesting certain methodologies and important run book steps
Assisting and guiding the bank on how to release code/upgrade regularly, by defining certain base criteria, test considerations and check points
Responsible for implementations of solutions as per business requirements and provide guidance to users for UAT
Actively participate in all defect meetings and ensure all business requirements of business are implemented with no deviations
Supporting the project teams with system queries/issues raised during the Development, Go-Live and Production stages, and if required liaising directly with Temenos Product Team in order to resolve these issues timely
Track and Manage all risks and dependencies regarding core banking implementation across the bank.
Provides advice and technical training required for the various cross functional teams.>

 

Experience

 

Minimum 8 – 10 years’ professional experience in software banking consultancy
10 years’ experience in T24 retail banking
Experience in writing BRD and FSD software specifications
Successful track record of designing and delivering projects
Ability to translate business requirements into IT solutions
Strong analytical skills, organized, process driven and detail-oriented
Good verbal and written communication skills, good presentation and problem-solving skills and the ability to work well with client
Goal-oriented and self-motivated team player who works best in a collaborative team environment

 

Qualifications

 

 

Degree in Business/ Finance/ Computer Science or equivalent experience

 

Knowledge

Product knowledge: Temenos portfolio with expert knowledge in one specific product together
With a willingness and ability to master other Temenos products
Good commercial banking knowledge and accounting principles
Good knowledge of Digital Money or alternative channels
Good general knowledge of T24 Architecture and related interfaces.
Strong awareness of Industry and market developments, good overall company knowledge.
Good knowledge of MS Office package (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio)
Expression of Interest
Expression of Interest: Submit your CV to [email protected] by 9th August 2019