Vacancy title:
data Analytics Developer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Telecommunications, Category: Computer & IT]

Jobs at:
Safaricom Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, October 7 2025

Duty Station:
Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Job Responsibilities

• Health and Safety; Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work and adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Development, configuration and integration of all VAS solutions/systems in line with the Digital IT strategy execution plan. 
• Actively participate in defining strategy, roadmaps and architecture design for the VAS products.
• Embrace the new ways of working in VAS domain with the goal of ensuring 50% of VAS projects are delivered through agile methodology.
• Timely delivery of projects assigned with the goal of ensuring high quality standards are met and solutions are operationally viable. Responsible for ensuring First Time Right delivery of all solutions developed.
• Enhance processes and DevOps to improve delivery and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.
• Accurately document products & services developed & delivered ensuring they follow DevOps Cycle.
• Embrace a DevOps culture by ensuring all developed products and Services are gracefully handed to operations for support.
• Develop and continuously update a knowledge base of best practice for VAS products and Service development.
• Collaborate with both Technical and Business teams to ensure seamless deployment of products.

Qualifications

• Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
• BSc. Degree in Telecommunication Engineering/Electrical & Electronics engineering/Computer Science/IT.
• 2 years’ experience in a busy telecommunication/ IT environment or Software Engineering with good knowledge in development for VAS solutions including Messaging, Voice, Video & IOT.
• Software Engineering methodologies including Agile-oriented development. 
• Proficiency in networking protocols – TCP/IP, DNS and load balancing.
• Working knowledge in Unix systems and Databases – Oracle, MySQL.
• Working knowledge of security encryption solutions – SSL, firewalls, VPN, IPsec
• Strong experience in programming/scripting language(s) – Python, Perl , Shell  or equivalent.
• 3rd Party RESTful API integration, PHP, MySQL, SQL server, web service working knowledge preferred

  Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Related field Experience, relevant work experience in development and/or testing role.
  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certification.
  • 4-5 years of Software Quality Engineering experience
  • Strong business acumen and leadership mindset with the ability to communicate and influence others.
  • Analytical mindset, problem- solving skills, and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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