Application and Software Development Manager Job Vacancy at KCB Bank Tanzania

The role of the Manager, Application and Software Development is to develop and implement a long-term strategy on software systems developed or deployed within KCBT infrastructure, monitor adherence of existing applications to strategy through quality controls and policy; and keep application development skills in tandem with both the software systems and business strategies. Provide leadership to unit members.

Job Details:

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute application development initiatives to the overall IT strategy.
• Work with business units to formulate banking products and contribute technical guidance to the procurement process.
• Analyze product requirements and design best-fit architecture and solutions guided by KCBT policies and industry best practice.
• Manage the project resources, schedule, costs, stakeholders, and the application development lifecycle
• Implement best practice and deploy appropriate tools to manage and govern application development and the IT change process.
• Actively engage end-users to assess satisfaction and achieve successful project closure.
• Work with functional teams to handover system support skills and documentation, and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
• Identify and champion innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Manage the team’s performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish a sustainable practice.
• Develop, execute and measure OLAs and SLAs with IT functional teams and business units respectively.

Daily Responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze requests to implement new applications to resolve business challenges and improve efficiency of processes.
• Evaluate and analyze requests to modify existing software systems and applications where either anomaly have been detected or the process is inefficient.
• Distribute and manage the workload among the application developers.
• Manage the application development life-cycle, ensuring that the application development policy is adhered to.
• Engage with business in formulating strategies that ride on software system to take advantage of business opportunities
• Provide support to the banking operations administrators and operators in resolving core banking anomalies and refining operations.

Application and Software Development Manager Job Vacancy at KCB Bank Tanzania

Requirements:

• Total minimum of 5 years of working Experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree IT/Computer science/engineering.
• Professional Qualification in Java Certification, Oracle Certification, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL.
• Master’s Degree in Any computer related, Project Management will be an added advantage.