Job Description
PACIS Insurance Company Limited was incorporated in Kenya in October 2004 and licensed to do business in August 2005 It is an initiative of the Catholic Church with a vision to be the icon of reliability and trustworthiness.
Purpose Of The Job
Reporting to the Head of ICT, Assistant ICT Manager – Business Applications is responsible for business applications, innovations, improvements of operational processes, directing and coordinating the development, implementation, and maintenance of innovative solutions for business applications.
Key Responsibilities
• Leading project teams during development and implementation of ICT Software projects to ensure implementation of applications that meet user requirements.
• Ensuring timely development and implementation of innovative and effective systems within the organization
• Ensuring the security of all organizational data to ensure availability and reliability of information, maximum productivity of the organization through the right use of business applications.
• Ensuring software development standards are followed for maintenance and knowledge transfer to other developers, supervising overall systems documentation for maintenance.
• Development and implementation of security controls on the organizations Business Applications, maintenance of business applications and effective Change Management in Business Applications to mitigate disruption of systems.
• Translate business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Write original code and update existing code, ensuring that all code meets program requirements.
• Perform intensive testing of all new and existing programs to ensure they are free of errors and functions as intended.
• Keep up to date the newest technological innovations in the field and be ready to apply relevant innovations to our software systems
Knowledge and Experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Information Technology. ITIL
• Any Project Management certification, PMP or PRINCE2
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect will be an added advantage
• Three (3) years software development experience, with at least one (1) year in a supervisory role or an equivalent.
• At least one (1) year experience as a full stack engineer.
• Excellent understanding of server-side technologies (e.g Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js)
• Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, single sign-on, LDAP, search Technologies (auth), APIgee, GraphQL, Swagger).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL Databases.
• Experience in design-driven development, continuous deployment, code refactoring, design patterns, application security, highly scalable applications.
Skills and Competencies
• People Driven Management
• Persuasion and negotiation Skills
• Leadership
• Results oriented
• Business Enterprise Knowledge