Job Description
Reporting to the Solution Architect Area Chapter
Lead, the position holder will be the liaison between business system users and
the technical team in as far as building automated business solutions is
concerned. The role holder will also be responsible for gathering, detailing,
and documenting business requirements into solution designs for business users
and technical developers. Propose ways in which the existing processes and
systems can be used or changed to meet new business requirements as well as identify
internal systems integrations needed to meet business requirements. They must
have significant business knowledge and have one or more areas of technical
expertise in software development, solution architecture and/or enterprise
architecture. They are viewed as a solution expert and provide
knowledge/counsel to software engineers.
Responsibilities
- Develop new user-facing features
- Carry out full business requirements discovery that includes
interviewing relevant stakeholders and end users i.e., requirements
elicitation
- Collect, classify, analyze and document business requirements
as per set standards.
- Create solution designs to meet business requirements by
exploiting the functionality available in IT systems already in Safaricom,
or by filling missing gaps with appropriate new systems, in accordance
with enterprise architecture.
- Lead a project team composed of designers and developers to
drive the business needs and expectations by ensuring business intent is
understood and delivered by IT.
- Ensure best practices are adhered to such as reusability,
monitoring, performance, security etc.
- Collaboratively oversee the development of solutions as per
agreed architecture, evolving them throughout the delivery in the face of
changing requirements and feedback from the team.
- Collaboratively develop test-driven business requirements and
functional specifications with business, technical, and testing team
members.
- Participate in technical/functional evaluation of bids for new
systems.
- Ensure sensible consensus is reached for all
requirements/specifications and help business, IT, and test leads to have
the same mutual understanding thereof.
- Liaise with other sections/departments in the delivery of
services and projects as well as maintain good working relations between
the Squad & Tribe team and all stakeholders.
- Provide support to the Business Unit by assisting in the
development/reviewing/translating of User Requirement Specifications into
a baseline BRD (Business Requirements Document) and building design
documents.
- Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing adherence to
business needs, change management governance and priorities.
- Follow a prioritization process that is transparent and
understandable for all parties involved.
- Participate in innovation to improve delivered products and
services and to explore new technologies and their applications to the
enterprise space.
Qualifications
- “hands-on software architect” capable of sharing software
development experience with the rest of the team, which in turn helps them
better understand how the architecture is viewed from a development
perspective.
- Expert-level development in at least 1 language such as Java,
Python, NodeJs, GO or .NET.
- Mastery of at least one Web Framework and for their language
of choice
- Deep knowledge and use of fundamental database concepts
- Ability to run user requirement workshops and capture complex
business requirements across multiple domains.
- Strong business acumen and leadership mindset with ability to
communicate and influence others.
- Has analytical skills to picture an end-to-end solution
derived from a design document
- Ability to drive initiatives without any formal authority in
an ambiguous environment
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing
environment
- Certification in Solution Architecture, TOGAF and
Certification in Public Clouds will be an added advantage
- Prior experience in ecommerce platform development will be an
added advantage
- Prior experience in Agile ways of working will be an added
advantage
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