JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary
To formulate an IT business model and strategy in alignment with the overall organisational strategy; contributing to strategy formulation and enabling organisation wide adoption.
Job Description
Technology Leadership
• Provide Technology leadership, direction and innovation to the product unit aligned to the business’s strategy.
• Provide product unit’s executive team with the appropriate leadership on the nature of trade-offs required to achieve customer outcomes
• Define world class strategic architecture and roadmaps.
• Fully integrate into the Product unit’s executive team and commit to agreed business outcomes
• Provide clear strategic direction to the technology teams you are leading.
• Align and contribute to Technology leadership for the broader firm.
Technology People Management
• Management of both internal and external resources in your team to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Build diverse, high performing teams that support delivery of business outcomes which are best practice in a global context
• Embed strong talent management practices and be responsible to build exciting career paths for your people.
• Ensure that your teams are technically up to date in line with future skill requirements.
• Responsible for overall team health
Stability of systems/applications
• End to end accountability of reliability of systems/applications in your space – this includes any services (internal or external) required to support the applications.
• Elimination of single points of failure and ensuring that all critical process flows are isolated on own infrastructure.
• Ongoing optimization and improvements.
• End to end monitoring of all services.
• Full resilience for all services that are tested in line with policies.
• Applications are up to date, all critical patching done and operating on supported infrastructure.
Data
• Single point of contact on Product Unit’s Exco for all technology enabled data related activities.
• Responsible for putting availability of appropriate data and data related tools front and center for all new technology implementations to allow for data driven insights and commercial value from data
Security/Cyber
• Single point of contact on Product Unit’s Exco for all security/cyber related activities.
• Responsible for secure build of all new technology.
• Responsible for ongoing protection against potential cyber-attacks and security vulnerabilities
JOB DETAILS:
You will maintain and develop Ongeza’s MIS and sales management system. The current system comprises of two Android apps and accompanying PHP web application. The Lead Software Developer will write code as well as train the localteam.
An ideal candidate will:
• Maintain and develop the existing MIS system.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams on data requirements and uses.
• Perform data analysis and create reports for management
• provide technical training to teams when required and serve as technical mentor to team members
Qualifications:
• Minimum four years work experience in programming, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in PHP, MVC, MYSQL, html, css, JavaScript, git
• At least a Diploma in an IT related course
• Strong working experience on Android programming/Java is a plus
• Experience maintaining and developing MySQL.
• Experience with Linux
• Experience in a variety of technologies and ability to quickly adapt to new technologies.
• Effective communication, both written and verbal.
• Creative problem-solving.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Comfort working in a startup environment.
• Fluent in both English and Kiswahili
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: Associate Degree
Job application procedure
Please send your cover letter and CVto jobs@ongeza.com. This position will be filled when a suitable candidate is found. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.Apply not later than 31st January 2023