Safaricom Ethiopia Job Vacancy 2024. Safaricom Ethiopia is looking for a qualified person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Safaricom Ethiopia is owned by an international consortium including Vodafone Group; Safaricom PLC; Vodacom Group; Sumitomo Corporation – one of the largest international trading and business investment companies; and British International Investment (BII) – the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor.
Position 1: Specialist: Data Analyst
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Clean, and analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that drive business improvements.
- Develop and maintain interactive dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Power BI) to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
- Work with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into data requirements.
- Conduct ad hoc analyses to address specific business questions and challenges.
- Create and maintain documentation for data processes, methodologies, and analytical frameworks.
- Assist in training team members on BI tools and best practices for data analysis.
- Create compelling visual representations of data to effectively communicate insights and findings to stakeholders.
- Engage with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for data analytics projects.
- Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Proven experience as a BI Data Analyst
- industry experience is preferred.
- Background in data analysis and data mining
- In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework.
- Familiarity with BI technologies (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Oracle BI, ODI)
- Knowledge of SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field
Budget owned: Functional Budget
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 2: Specialist: Business Intelligence (Power BI)
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- Proven experience as a BI Developer
- Industry experience is preferred.
- Background in data warehouse design (e.g., dimensional modelling) and data mining
- In-depth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework.
- Familiarity with BI technologies (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Oracle BI)
- Knowledge of SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 3: Specialist Data Engineer (Big Data)
Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related fields like Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics).
- 3+ years of software design, development, implementation & deployment experience with backend data services.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in any object-oriented programming & scripting languages such as C++, C#, Java, or Python.
- Hands on experience in private cloud (docker/ kubernetes-K8s) computing.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms and algorithm
- Advanced working SQL/NoSQL knowledge and experience working with relational/nonrelational databases.
- Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 4: Specialist – Enterprise Integration
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- At least 1 years’ experience in coding in a non-university setting.
- Experience in Java, spring boot, spring, spring MVC, JEE, MAVEN, spring cloud. Should be conversant in Java. Other programming languages such as C#, Golang will be an added advantage.
- Proven experience with integration technologies such as APIs, web services, and message queues.
- Strong understanding of microservice architecture – Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms. This will include when and where to use a particular architecture and pattern.
- Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL,etc..).
- Experience in analytical and problemsolving skills, developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps etc will be an added advantage. – 3 – C2 – Restricted Information
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 5: Specialist – Devops Engineer
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
- Certification in cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or related.
- Use of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or similar and professional software development using JAVA, Python etc. is required.
- 3 years’ experience in commercial software development with at least 2 years’ experience in developing release pipelines and GitOps frameworks.
- Proficient in scripting.
- Hands-on knowledge of configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 6: Digital Channels Backend Developer
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field
- At least 3 years’ experience as a full-stack developer with in-depth understanding of both web and mobile technology stacks
- Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript libraries and frameworks (ReactJS and NextJS).
- Experience in developing hybrid mobile applications using PWA and bridge scripts.
- Experience with REST API integration
- Proficient understanding of version control (Git) and DevOps
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 7: DevOps Engineer (Big Data)
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related fields like Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics).
- Minimum 3 years of work experience in system administration, design, construction and operation of container platforms (Kubernetes) as well as in container technologies (Docker, Podman etc.) and their management systems
- Knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CI/CD Tools (Pipelines, GitOps [FluxCD, ArgoCD], Jenkins), Configuration Management/Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible, cloud technologies (Openstack VmWare, AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Highly experienced with Docker & Containers and Custom Helm charts
- Top notch Linux skills
- SRE experience for a mid to large enterprise system
- General cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) Preferred Azure.
- Experience with building Kubernetes Operators a plus
- General DevOps Experience a plus
- Experience with Custom Controllers, Custom CRD and service mesh.
- Software Engineering background is nice to have
Place of Work: Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Position 8: Data Analytics Developer – CVM
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
- BS or MS in computer science or equivalent practical experience
- At least 2-3 years’ experience in data modelling, designing and supporting data storage in relational databases.
- At least 2 years of Experience in developing data pipelines or extract transform load jobs
- At least 2 years of experience with relational databases, including Oracle and MSSQ
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
- Coding experience using Java/python/R/SQL/ PLSQL
- Experience in collecting, storing, processing and analysing large volumes of data.
- Proficient understanding of databases at the logical, physical, and conceptual levels.
- Understanding of big data technologies
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
How To Apply:
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the career portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.
The closing date for receiving applications is Wednesday December 04, 2024.