Senior Manager, Data Engineer – KCB Bank 27 views

Senior Manager, Data Engineer Purpose

The primary role of the Senior Manager, Data Engineer is to lead and coordinate the data support teams and ensure the data availability, reliability & security is not compromised. The role is to lead the development and utilization of data systems. In this role, the Senior Manager, Data Engineer will be responsible for identifying efficient methods to organize, store, and analyses data while maintaining strict security and confidentiality measures.

Key Responsibilities for Senior Manager

• Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.
• Collaborate with other Technology staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes.

• Implement and adhere to regular systems maintenance policies and procedures, including change request mechanisms and update schedules to ensure optimum uptime and service availability.
• Participate in system acquisition process; propose and create system design models, specifications, diagrams, charts and implementation roadmaps to provide strategic direction to the business.
• Administer the assigned Systems at Application level and connected databases, define and optimize database structures, content and processing flows through appropriate Data Definition, Data Manipulation and Data Control Languages.
• Perform recovery and testing of systems and processes in accordance with the bank’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, and processes.
• Create and maintain best practice policies and procedures for business users; ensuring that there are adequate controls around that all data improvements are managed effectively and meet the needs of the organization.
• Responsible for designing and implementing ETL architecture to meet corporate data management needs and business functional requirements, ensuring that solution designs address operational requirements such as scalability, maintainability, extensibility, flexibility, and integrity.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting, analysis, ETL data integrity, test automation, data quality validation and documentation.
• Support, develop and maintain ETL and data warehouse objects and processes in a large Data warehouse of Terabyte scale.

The Person

For the above position, the preferred candidate will meet the below criteria:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or Engineering. A Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• Professional certification in Data Management administration certifications in either database administration in Oracle or MSSQL or MongoDB.
• Certification in Cloud Data Certifications (Azure, AWS, OCI)
• Certification in Project Management (PMP, Agile Scrum, PRINCE2) is added advantage.
• At least 6 years’ experience in the same or related role.

At least 4 years’ experience or knowledge in the following aspects; –

• Knowledge in Computing platforms, operating systems i.e.  Linux, windows Unix and databases.
• Knowledge in relational and non-relational database administration or development in Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB, Casandra
• Knowledge in web application servers e.g. Jboss, Tomcat, WebSphere
• Knowledge of Data Integration tools and technologies SAP Data Services, ODI, Apache Kafka, Azure Data Factory
• Methods and techniques used in the installation, administration, monitoring, upgrading and problem resolution of Data warehouse and master data management systems
• Knowledge of methods and techniques used in the installation, administration, monitoring, upgrading and problem resolution of data warehouse systems
• T24 Administration knowledge.

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

To be considered your application must be received by 31^st May 2024

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.