Applications Developer Specialist at NBC Bank

NBC is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and investment banking, wealth management products and services.

Job Summary

• To participate in the studying bank operations and processes; design, build solutions or modify/upgrade existing applications to meet key strategic goals.
• To actively participate in systems/projects scoping, design, and pricing exercises as part of the development and business teams’ processes; Work with Senior Manager Applications Development to ensure resource utilization targets are met in alignment with strategic objectives..
• Develop new products quickly or modify existing ones with flexibility, hence improve time to market, and internal processes.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Study information needs, system flows, data usage, work processes, and investigating problem areas and propose solutions.
Document and demonstrate solutions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear pseudo codes.
Determine operational feasibility by evaluating impact analysis, problem definition, user requirements, proposed solutions and efforts required.
Develop and conduct testing plans and procedures based upon system requirements
Identify systems deficiencies and implement effective solutions
Communicating and enforcing coding standards; and recommending changes in policies, processes and procedures.
Develop and/or modify products with flexibility
Researching, evaluating, and recommending systems/equipment/technologies
Support existing and newly developed solutions with integrations via API’s based on requirements
planning and delivering automated solutions to be used across multiple products and organizational units.
Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

Attributes
Knowledge on the trending banking software and technologies in the market.

Excellent written and oral communication
Problem solving skills and follow through; Pragmatic and thorough
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
Experience with varieties of databases and object-relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks.
Must be a self-starter and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.
Deep hands on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Objects Oriented Programming and API’s.
Business Processes Improvement and Management
Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility, Web User Interface Design (UI), Security Principles, Object-Oriented Design, Web Services (REST/SOAP), Multimedia Content Development and API’s

Qualifications and Experience

BSc. In Computer Science, Engineering or related field with informatics as core.
Experience in multiple development languages in medium to enterprise systems, e.g. PHP, C#, Java, etc.
Agile/Scrum and/or Oracle/Microsoft SQL MySQL, PostgreSQL certifications is an added advantage.
Proved experience with coding languages Java and PHP is a must; Python is an added advantage.
Experience with a variety of MVC frameworks/systems preferably Spring, Laravel, Django; Angular is an added advantage.
5+ years’ experience in a software development industry.
Experience with integrations with Bank products/systems is an added advantage.
Business Processes Management certification is of an added advantage (e.g. Six Sigma, BPM…etc)

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree – Computer and Information Science, Experience in a similar environment