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locations Karen, Kenya time type Full time posted on Posted 11 Days Ago job requisition idJR28320

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Innovation, Development & Integration

• Create, manage, and optimize containers for the systems developed, ensuring they are tailored for peak performance, security, and scalability.
• Stay current with containerization best practices and emerging technologies.
• Implement container orchestration solutions for scalability and resilience.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of cloud-based services.
• Monitor cloud costs and resource utilization to optimize spending.
• Identify technology gaps and analyse, advise, and lead efforts to align our technology projects with market trends for enhanced efficiency and innovation.
• Design and implement robust APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to seamlessly integrate our systems with other relevant platforms.
• Create a consolidated dashboard to facilitate data-driven decision-making by the management.
• Ensure the APIs are well-documented and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Analyse and advice on alignment of market technology for efficiency.
• Support digital platforms operationalization

Data Analysis, Protection & Processing Oversight

• Leverage technical expertise in data models, database design, data mining, and segmentation techniques to inform decision-making and enhance digital services.
• Develop data visualization dashboards for real-time performance monitoring
• Oversee and manage data protection compliance end-to-end, covering the entire information management cycle from data collection to secure data removal.
• Collaborate closely with the WVK Data Protection Officer to ensure compliance with data protection regulations and best practices.
• Conduct regular audits and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and implement necessary safeguards.
• Understand, monitor, and analyse various scripts provided by third-party vendors, especially in the context of PCI-Mastercard integration.
• Collaborate with the WVK Cloud Services Aadministrator to ensure the health, security, and efficiency of the cloud environment.
• Proactively monitor data processing workflows for anomalies and implement corrective actions

Testing and Debugging

• Develop comprehensive test plans, cases, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to rigorously assess new systems and software updates.
• Ensure that all testing activities adhere to World Vision requirements and policies

Collaboration and Documentation

• Work closely with operational sectors to develop and support Management Information System (MIS) in alignment with project requirements.
• Collaborate to ensure seamless data integration and reporting.
• Provide training and support to end-users.
• Develop a comprehensive user guide for the systems developed, providing clear and user-friendly documentation to support end-users.
• Ensure that the guide assists users in understanding and effectively utilizing the systems.
• Collaborate with IT team to facilitate automated testing in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Other Duties

• Participate and contribute in committees and task forces as assigned from time to time
• Any other duty as assigned by the Supervisor.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems or equivalent discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Database design/operations.
• Hands-on experience in designing/reviewing, developing/optimising/refactoring, and implementing new database schema/model that meets the business requirement with optimized DB performance.
• Specialized in DB performance tuning, and DB infrastructure capacity/high availability planning for very large and critical database systems.
• Subject matter expert on database technologies such as MS SQL Server and some other RDBMS MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js
• Subject matter expert in database designs by recommending DB best practices to the application development team.
• Experience in building database projects for on-premise or cloud environments.
• Able to create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development.
• Create API and maintain architecture and systems documentation.
• Build and maintain data pipelines from internal and external databases and SaaS applications.
• Hands-on experience in cloud DB Infrastructure (AWS / MS Azure), DevOps, CI/CD deployments is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in NoSQL database design, development and implementation.
• Technical expertise in network, security, and application development
• Proficiency and experience in using package managers and build tools such as NPM (Node Package Manager).

Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only

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