Core Products Technical Lead job at Safaricom
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Vacancy title:
Core Products Technical Lead

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Telecommunications , Category: Information Technology ]

Jobs at:

Safaricom

Deadline of this Job:
06 December 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Brief Description
Reporting to the Consumer IT Lead, the position holder shall provide leadership in driving delivery of Consumer Business Unit projects using Business Doman and IT knowledge. Leading a team of Architects and Business Analysts, as well as virtual IT delivery teams to implement Core Product (Voice, Data and SMS) propositions campaign and promotions. Break down complex requirements into simple trackable tasks. Be committed to high quality and delivery on time.

Responsibilities
Business Delivery:

• Responsible for all Domain business projects by resourcing and leading virtual teams across IT
• Responsible for delivering 95% of the projects on time
• Responsible for ensuring project stability within max 48 hours
• Ensure agile is implemented in at least 50% of the projects
• Maintain an accurate registry of all business projects with various statuses and ensure business teams are appraised at all times
• Agree with business product leads & PMO on projects KPI’s, milestones and timelines

Leadership:
• Attend business strategy meetings to ensure IT is aligned with business needs
• Regular team and one-on-one engagements
• Build the team skillset according to the fit for future program
• Team performance management
• Provide budget inputs for business solutions.
• Attend BU strategy sessions
• Weekly Delivery reporting to BU HoDs and Senior Managers on the status of their deliverables

Business Analysis:
• Responsible for gathering, detailing and documenting all business requirements
• Ensure sensible consensus is reached for all requirements/specifications and help business, IT, CXX, Revenue Assurance and test leads to have the same mutual understanding
• Ensure test plans cover all aspects of Business Requirements and existing business rules

Solutions Design:
• Responsible for Solutions Design to meet business requirements and non-functional requirements
• Drive reuse on all technical and business functionality designed and no duplication of business components
• Collaboratively oversee the development/configuration of solutions as per agreed designs
• Provide solution architecture input into all new system tenders

Qualifications
Technical/Professional qualifications:

• Degree in Science/computer science/Engineering/Business related.
• Certification in Business Analysis & Agile Project Management will be an added advantage
• Strong business acumen and mindset – with bias to Consumer and Sales domains
• 5+ years of software development experience in a busy IT development environment, 2 years of which must include experience in Business Analysis and Systems design.
• 3+ years’ Experience in Technical Leadership of large IT projects
• Team player who is skilled at building up and managing stakeholder relationships successfully
• Ability to persuade stakeholders and to champion effective techniques through delivery
• Ability to drive initiatives without any formal authority in an ambiguous environment


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 06 December 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 29-11-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 29-11-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 29-11-2065
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