Job Title: Â IT Applications Administrator
Organisation:Â Opportunity Bank Uganda
Duty Station:Â Â Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Opportunity Bank Uganda Ltd (OBUL) is a member of Opportunity International, a global microfinance institution that provides access to financial services in 27 Countries globally serving over 2 Million customers with Savings, Credit and other transformational services aimed at transforming the lives of low income earners.
Job Summary: Â Â The Applications Administrator is responsible for providing support for the core Banking Applications – T24 and related applications including, accounting, HR Systems and other third- party systems. The role also involves analyzing Business requirements, developing, coding, installing, maintaining software systems and support the existing Business applications.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Act as first line support for all application issues.
- Document all operational procedures and keep the departmental operating instructions updated at all times.
- Maintain a Knowledge base of all known application issues.
- Define and document User Acceptance Test (UAT) case scenarios/ plan for application fixes in liaison with business function and ensure all application changes are change managed.
- Fully support the business with the application parameters maintenances adhering to the parameterization change process, Calenderer maintenance EOD/ EOM/ EOY/SOD processing
- Amend data anomalies resulting from system malfunction and service requests upon necessary authorization and change management.
- Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Understand client requirements and how they translate in application features
- Design creative prototypes according to specifications
- Perform unit and integration testing before launch
- Provide guidance to the business functions in identification of needs and definition of requirements.
- Provide support in Project management, Business case development, analysis design-staged of system implementations.
- Participate in User review sessions and User acceptance session to ensure that the solution delivered is in line with the business requirement
- Conduct functional and non-functional testing
- Identify and resolve operational problems
- Trouble shoots and diagnoses problems.
- Implement security standards (access controls, segregation of duties, usage and exception monitoring)
- Identify and manage the resources necessary for all stages (planning, design estimation, execution) of systems development projects to ensure technical, financial and quality targets are met.
- Test solutions in the test environment and deploy solutions to production.
- Provide support in database management, administration and maintenance
- Monitors and supports alternative delivery channels performance and ensure agreed upon uptime is achieved.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in an IT related field
- A minimum of 3 years in systems development and applications support
- Sound Knowledge of API Banking Technologies Demonstrated abilities with source control systems and team collaborative software/database development and knowledge management.
- Experience with database support and development tasks in both a transactional and DSS environments.
- Experience in Dot Net (C#) and/or Java/Java based Application Development; Jbase & T24 Programming
- Strong knowledge of Oracle / MS SQL / Sybase databases.
- Knowledge of programming in SQL, PL/SQL.
- Knowledge of Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience within a technical support environment, including Database administration, core banking applications and other software experience.
- Sound Knowledge of API Banking Technologies Demonstrated abilities with source control systems and team collaborative software/database development and knowledge management.
- Experience with database support and development tasks in both a transactional and DSS environments.
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
- Proven ability to balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below.
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