Braeburn Schools is a group of 16 co-educational international schools spread over 9 campuses providing world class teaching of the British National Curriculum and GCE A-Levels to over 3,600 pupils. Our schools actively value and celebrate diversity, nurturing personal growth by providing a friendly and supportive environment.

Responsibilities or duties

The Lead Systems Integrator & Developer is responsible for the end-to-end delivery and reliability of the organization’s core data integrations. The role entails designing and own the data infrastructure of a growing, multi-campus international school network, be the primary architect of the school integration backbone building and maintaining the automated data flows that connect our HR, MIS, Library, and Google Workspace platforms. This role owns the full delivery lifecycle: from requirements gathering with non-technical stakeholders, through architecture, development, and deployment, to ongoing monitoring and documentation.

Qualifications or requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field.

Experience needed

• Minimum of 3 years in a Junior/Middle Level developer role.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining production Python scripts for automated data synchronization between enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing and managing Zero-Touch onboarding/offboarding workflows between an MIS and Directory Services (Google Workspace or equivalent).
• Practical experience building and deploying API-driven integration bridges to automate manual business processes.
• Demonstrated ability to own the full project lifecycle: from requirements gathering with non-technical stakeholders through to deployment, monitoring, and documentation handoff.
• Experience implementing structured logging, alerting, and basic observability for unattended scheduled jobs in a production environment.

Added Advantage

• Post-graduate certifications in Data Engineering or Cloud Architecture (e.g. Google Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics).
• Professional certifications in Power BI, Advanced Data Analytics, or Google Workspace
• Knowledge of Kenya’s Data Protection Act 2019.
• Experience working within the K-12 education sector or with School Management Information Systems (MIS).
• Experience in multi-campus or multi-entity data environments consolidating and reconciling data across organizational or geographic boundaries.
• Experience migrating on-premise legacy scripts to serverless or containerized cloud environments.
• Prior experience in a Lead or Senior capacity, managing technical documentation, code standards, and knowledge transfer for a small team.
• Familiarity with ILS platforms such as Koha, including REST API integration for patron and catalogue management.

• End-to-end delivery and reliability of the organization’s core data integrations.
• Designing and owning the data infrastructure of a growing, multi-campus international school network.
• Primary architect of the school integration backbone.
• Building and maintaining automated data flows that connect HR, MIS, Library, and Google Workspace platforms.
• Owning the full delivery lifecycle: from requirements gathering with non-technical stakeholders, through architecture, development, and deployment, to ongoing monitoring and documentation.
• Designing and managing Zero-Touch onboarding/offboarding workflows between an MIS and Directory Services (Google Workspace or equivalent).
• Building and deploying API-driven integration bridges to automate manual business processes.
• Implementing structured logging, alerting, and basic observability for unattended scheduled jobs in a production environment.
• Managing technical documentation, code standards, and knowledge transfer for a small team (if in a Lead or Senior capacity).
• REST API integration for patron and catalogue management (familiarity with ILS platforms like Koha).

• Python scripting for automated data synchronization
• Zero-Touch onboarding/offboarding workflows (MIS and Directory Services)
• API-driven integration bridge development
• Full project lifecycle ownership (requirements, architecture, development, deployment, monitoring, documentation)
• Structured logging, alerting, and observability for scheduled jobs
• Data Engineering (preferred)
• Cloud Architecture (preferred)
• Power BI (preferred)
• Advanced Data Analytics (preferred)
• Google Workspace (preferred)
• Knowledge of Kenya’s Data Protection Act 2019 (preferred)
• Experience with K-12 education sector or School Management Information Systems (MIS) (preferred)
• Experience in multi-campus or multi-entity data environments (preferred)
• Migrating on-premise legacy scripts to serverless or containerized cloud environments (preferred)
• Technical documentation, code standards, knowledge transfer (preferred)
• Familiarity with ILS platforms such as Koha, including REST API integration

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 3 years in a Junior/Middle Level developer role.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining production Python scripts for automated data synchronization between enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing and managing Zero-Touch onboarding/offboarding workflows between an MIS and Directory Services (Google Workspace or equivalent).
• Practical experience building and deploying API-driven integration bridges to automate manual business processes.
• Demonstrated ability to own the full project lifecycle: from requirements gathering with non-technical stakeholders through to deployment, monitoring, and documentation handoff.
• Experience implementing structured logging, alerting, and basic observability for unattended scheduled jobs in a production environment.
• Post-graduate certifications in Data Engineering or Cloud Architecture (e.g. Google Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics) (Added Advantage).
• Professional certifications in Power BI, Advanced Data Analytics, or Google Workspace (Added Advantage).
• Knowledge of Kenya’s Data Protection Act 2019 (Added Advantage).
• Experience working within the K-12 education sector or with School Management Information Systems (MIS) (Added Advantage).
• Experience in multi-campus or multi-entity data environments consolidating and reconciling data across organizational or geographic boundaries (Added Advantage).
• Experience migrating on-premise legacy scripts to serverless or containerized cloud environments (Added Advantage).
• Prior experience in a Lead or Senior capacity, managing technical documentation, code standards, and knowledge transfer for a small team (Added Advantage).
• Familiarity with ILS platforms such as Koha, including REST API integration for patron and catalogue management (Added Advantage).