PAPSS (Software Developer)

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct detailed analysis for Instant Payment integration requirements as may be provided by the Product Owner.
• Work closely with the other technical teams to explain and elaborate the Instant Payment requirements and ensure that the acceptance criteria are clearly and unambiguously stated.
• Assisting with the creation of technical documentations such as manuals, requirements, and design specification documents for PAPSS
• Support the team through integration and assist with everything from writing requirements, defining new strategies, planning capacity, discussing field definition, drawing out flows to answering questions from other teams and customers on the PAPSS Instant payment system.
• Develop and maintain new Integration API, PAPSS Sandbox and Management Reporting Dashboard
• Coordination, design, development, deployment, and third-level support of a robust, reliable, and highly available PAPSS Instant Payment Gateway built on proven messaging and web service technologies.
• Technical coordination, interface design, end-to-end development, deployment, and third-level support of PAPSS Instant Payment systems, PAPSS Marketplace and future payment initiatives of PAPSS.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• First degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Postgraduate degree in the same or related fields from a recognized University or a relevant professional qualification in lieu. Master’s degree required but not mandatory
• At least 8 years of professional and demonstrated hands-on experience in Software development, enterprise architecture and software solution design, obtained from a bank, Switches or Fintechs with a strong focus on cross border Payment for trade & services, preferably at a regional or continental level. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and or another language such as French or Arabic.
• Detailed practical experience of Payment Schemes and Systems – Instant Payment, SCT Inst, SEPA, FPS, RTGS BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT etc.
• In-depth understanding of ISO20022 payment messages and the usage of specific fields within those messages is Mandatory.
• Technical focus and API experience
• Efficient use of Postman and SOAPUI
• Strong experience with High level programming languages such as Java, C# .NET Core and JavaScript frameworks (Angular or ReactJS)
• Full range of lifecycle experience, workflow automation flows and automated/improved BA and testing processes. 
• Awareness of industry initiatives impacting the Instant Payments environment. Knowledge of agile methodology is desirable.
• Use of UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams and State Diagrams using a modelling tool (or Visio)
• Creation and elaboration of Requirements, User Stories, etc. using industry best practices.
• Proven experience of instant payment or software delivery projects.
• Knowledge of i-PAAS, Middleware, Spring Boot/.NET or equivalent
• Comfortable with JBoss, IBM Integration Bus, MQ, Kafka, Java, Oracle, Postgres, AIX
• Knowledge of AWS and other cloud environment is a must.

Proficiency:

• Experienced professional with significant experience in Software development.
• Operates autonomously and is generally responsible for an end-to-end process software solution, including managing and coordinating people and resources.
• Acts as a 3rd level escalation point across PAPSS for all technical queries and technical clarifications with documented process manual and knowledge repository to aid team members.

Leadership Skills:

• Acts as a subject matter expert in all software and solution delivery, providing technical guidance to colleagues across Afreximbank and PAPSS while maintaining required integrity.
• Coaches, motivates and mentors junior colleagues.
• May have formal line management responsibilities for a limited number of junior professionals and associates.
• Identifies and addresses training needs for the team, including preparing and delivering training programmes as directed by senior management.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Builds and manages effective working relationships both internally and (where relevant) externally at different organisational levels.
• Influences decisions at functional level and may support external negotiations.
• Presents complex technical information to diverse audiences in a clear and concise manner for purposes of driving results.

Problem Solving & Business Impact:

• Solves non-routine and occasionally complex problems based on sound critical analysis, technical knowledge and prior experience.
• Acts with flexibility as an escalation point for technical issues encountered by junior colleagues.
• Impacts its own function by managing a specific area or sub-function, including making necessary inputs to strategy and policies and  providing expert opinion, advice and guidance across the organisation.

Supporting Afreximbank Mandate:

• Has a solid understanding of Afreximbank and PAPSS  products and services  and how the role of leading PAPSS development team contributes to  Afreximbank’ s values and mission.
• Has a good knowledge of the Continent’s political, economic and trade landscape and is able to offer well informed opinions on  the subject internally  and to external  counterparts.
• Identifies practical ways in which Afreximbank’ s values and mission can be cascaded to junior colleagues and external parties.

Benefits and Contractual information:

• Permanent Role
• USD tax exempt salary
• Suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to Lara Joubert at ljoubert@caglobalint.com

Please visit www.caglobalint.com for more exciting opportunities.

Lara Joubert

Recruitment Specialist

Banking & Finance

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.

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