Senior Application Developer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 
1. Develop systems and systems integrations on the bank’s integrations middleware stack using JAVA and Red Hat Integration technologies and tools to drive business.
2. Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and nonfunctional requirements.
3. Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
4. Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
5. Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project 
6. Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure.
7. Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
8. Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases.
9. Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.


MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
a. Academic & Professional 

Bachelor’s Degree
DevOps tools e.g. Jenkins/Ansible etc.
Certification in Cloud technologies e.g AWS, Azure
Azure DevOps (Azure Container Registry, Pipelines, Azure Defender, Azure Boards) GitOps (Argo CD/Flux CD)
DevSecOps - SAST, DAST - CheckMarx, AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services, EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Services (AWS)
Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd, Openshift Service Mesh)
MASTERS: MBA/Msc will be an added advantage

b. Experience
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required - 5
3 years' experience working with Software Build and Deployments in a busy environment.
3 years' hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like – Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform
3 years' experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) using various tools like TeamCity, Jenkins/Bamboo, and Artifactory/Nexus as binary repository