IT Senior Manager Job Placement – KCB Bank

Job Title:     IT Senior Manager
Organisation: KCB Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of IT
About KCB:
KCB
Bank Uganda which is part of KCB Group, East Africa’s largest commercial bank
that was established in 1896. Over the years, the Bank has grown and spread its
wings into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi completing the
East African circuit in the year 2012. Today, the Group has the largest branch
network in the region with over 238 branches, 950 ATMs and 8,000 agents
offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. KCB Bank Uganda was
established in the year 2007 and has grown to become one of Uganda’s top ten
commercial banks. Currently KCB Bank Uganda has 14 branches complemented with
16 ATMs spread on Kampala Road, Commercial Plaza, Ben Kiwanuka, Luwum Street,
Oasis Mall Sixth Street, Arua, Elgon Masaba, Fort Portal, Gulu, Hoima, Lira,
Mbarara and Jinja that offer trade financing, corporate and retail banking
services to customers.
Job Summary: The IT Senior Manager will be responsible for
ensuring the delivery of quality IT service to support all the business
channels in the Bank. The incumbent will also assist in the planning and
execution of IT technical function and services in accordance with best
practice IT principles, policies and procedures.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Interface between IT and Business teams to
    collate, analyze and review business requirements for system changes
    requiring developments and new system acquisition. Works hand in hand with
    the Project Management Office.
  • Provide governance on support of the existing
    systems to ensure timely defect resolution, adherence to procedures, and
    escalation of system issues as appropriately.
  • The incumbent will establish and/or refine
    processes and procedures designed to ensure consistently high quality IT
    service delivery.
  • In charge of the periodic review of available
    and new technologies in line with best industry practice to support
    business growth.
  • In charge of planning, implementation and
    management of value added services, e.g. voice, data, channels, software
    and hardware including virtual systems infrastructure.
  • Offer technical support for the bank’s
    channels including ATMs, mobile banking, internet banking and agency
    banking systems.
  • Working with the card systems support staff,
    ensure the availability and performance visibility of card systems.
  • Develop, test and maintain comprehensive data
    archiving & recovery procedures for all computing environments in
    liaison with system administrators to ensure that a timely and well
    organized recovery is made back to acceptable levels of service.
  • Work closely with IT Risk and Security to
    ensure that the alternative banking channels are designed, implemented and
    operated in a robust and well secured environment.
  • Roll out of business solutions, ensuring that
    they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not
    adversely affect business processes, and providing processes and training
    to the users.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
        
  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree
    in an IT / Computer Science or related field, from a recognized
    institution.
  • Possession of a postgraduate degree or
    professional qualifications in related fields will be an added advantage.
  • A minimum of five years of hands on
    experience in the support of systems in a banking environment.
  • A minimum of three years’ experience
    supporting transaction processing systems such as ATMs, Internet, agency
    and mobile banking.
  • Previous experience in the support of IT
    systems virtual infrastructure.
  • Experience in the management of IT projects.
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of card
    systems and related infrastructure as a business delivery channel.
  • Hands on experience in the management of a
    data backup and recovery strategy.
  • Excellent planning and organizing
    capabilities;
  • Strong oral and written communication skills;
  • Analytical with attention to detail
  • Strong work ethic (Discipline and efficiency)
  • Excellent interpersonal skills (Team player)
  • Strong self-drive 
How to Apply:
​All suitably qualified candidates should
send their applications via E-mail to recruitment@ug.kcbbankgroup.com
Deadline: 22nd July, 2016
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