Assistant Manager, Software & Integration Support (PAPSS), PAPPS at the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)

African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) was established in Abuja, Nigeria in October, 1993 by African Governments, African private and institutional investors as well as non-African financial institutions and private investors for the purpose of financing, promoting and expanding intra-African and extra-African trade.

The Bank, headquartered in Cairo, the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, commenced operations on 30 September, 1994, following the signature of a Headquarters Agreement with the host Government in August, 1994. It has branch offices in Harare, Abuja and Abidjan and will open an East Africa branch office shortly.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Manager, Software & Integration Support (PAPSS), PAPPS

Reference: LJBR-SIS-20
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Employment type: Full-time

Description

• Reporting to the Manager Technology and Operations, the Assistant Manager Software & Integration Support will have a detailed real-world understanding of retail payment systems gained in a bank or similar financial institution such as Switches and Payment Service Provider (PSPs) with vast experience in instant payments.
• The chosen candidate will lead technical engagements with prospective PAPSS participants (Banks, switches & PSPs) and come up with the system integration requirements and other specific features of the PAPSS product.
• This includes but not limited to the integration of PASS to different Core banking applications (Flexcube, Finacle, T24 etc), Infrastructure connectivity, Payment interface and message development and Integration to Central Banks.

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 Skills:

• First Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics
• Master's Degree in a relevant field or Postgraduate degree in the same or related fields from a recognized University or a relevant professional qualification in lieu.
• At least 5 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
• 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
• 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

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to "Lara Joubert" via: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.