Digital Engineering (Sme) At Safaricom

Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA
Description
We are pleased to announce the following Position in the Digital IT within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Description.
Reporting to the Director – Digital IT, Digital engineering SME will be driving digital transformation with end to end responsibility within IT to provide technical leadership in driving delivery of all digital channels, micro-services architecture and modern architectures implementation, DevOps & agile delivery.
Responsibilities

Accountable for all digital channels solutions inclusive of apps, portals and chat-bots.
E2E accountability for systems support including and not limited to MTTR, SLA, individual and global incidents.
E2E accountability for building automated monitoring for all domain systems.
E2E accountability for building proactive controls based on machine learning and similar techniques.
Responsible for driving the Agile culture within IT.
Responsible for coaching all IT members on agile and ensure all digital products are delivered using agile methodology.
Responsible for driving the DevOps culture within IT.
Responsible for giving technical leadership in automating of the CI/CD pipeline through ensuring automated end to end product cycle.
Responsible for evolving to a micro-services architecture for all digital solutions and evolving to modern architectures and frameworks.
Responsible for implementing the digital experience layer.
Responsible for digital channel architecture evolution.
Technical lead in delivery of digital channels – web frontends, chat-bots and mobile applications in android and IOS.
Regular team and one-on-one engagements
Build the technical digital skillset according to the fit for future program
Team technical leadership and performance management
Regular team and one-on-one engagements
Build the technical digital skillset according to the fit for future program
Team technical leadership and performance management

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or other related field
7+ years in leading software teams in startups or digital native organizations.
Experience in using advanced technologies around DevOPs, micro-services, app and backend development as well as data science.
Experience in running digital transformation programs successfully.