The Financial Reporting Centre (FRC) (Kenya's Financial Intelligence Unit) is established under section 21 of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2009.

Job Responsibilities

The duties of the officer under System Development will entail:

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Undertake software development to provide basic software solutions that support organizational operations, using various programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, .NET, Django, Angular),
• Implement software development best practices, including agile methodologies, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) protocols
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code,
• Participate in the testing of applications to identify and resolve defects,
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for existing applications
• Participate in the integration of new applications with existing systems,
• Maintain and update systems documentation

The duties of the officer under Networks & Data Centre will entail:

• Assist in Planning, designing, and implementation of secure common data centres,
• Monitoring the data centre environment and resources (power, cooling, and space) and all other equipment to ensure service efficiency,
• Documenting operational procedures for the data centre,
• Assist in Maintaining a full register of data centre equipment,
• Ensuring data centre requests and incidence are logged, tracked and resolved,
• Working closely with third party service providers on data centre management,
• Participating in the monitoring and mitigating data centre cybersecurity threats,
• Participating in the development and implementation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for data centres and hosted systems,
• Participating in the development and review of network and infrastructure standards and protocols relating to data centres,
• Participating in researching, planning, implementing, and installing new hardware and software within the data centre,
• Compiling ICT network and data centres management reports.

The duties of the officer under Database Administrator will entail:

• Maintain user accounts, permissions, and access rights on various databases,
• Provide support in database problem troubleshooting and resolutions,
• Conduct systems backups as per the backup schedules,
• Ensure the availability, capacity, security stability, and performance of all databases,
• Implement database disaster recovery plans,
• Implement database systems and process improvement plans for efficiency,
• Participate in testing of ICT disaster receiver plans for databases,
• Maintain documentation of data storage and operational procedures.

Requirements

Education:

• Academic - Bachelor’s degree in computer science,
• Academic - Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering,
• Academic - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology,
• Academic - or equivalent discipline,

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Undertake software development to provide basic software solutions that support organizational operations, using various programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, .NET, Django, Angular),
• Implement software development best practices, including agile methodologies, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) protocols
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code,
• Participate in the testing of applications to identify and resolve defects,
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for existing applications
• Participate in the integration of new applications with existing systems,
• Maintain and update systems documentation
• Assist in Planning, designing, and implementation of secure common data centres,
• Monitoring the data centre environment and resources (power, cooling, and space) and all other equipment to ensure service efficiency,
• Documenting operational procedures for the data centre,
• Assist in Maintaining a full register of data centre equipment,
• Ensuring data centre requests and incidence are logged, tracked and resolved,
• Working closely with third party service providers on data centre management,
• Participating in the monitoring and mitigating data centre cybersecurity threats,
• Participating in the development and implementation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for data centres and hosted systems,
• Participating in the development and review of network and infrastructure standards and protocols relating to data centres,
• Participating in researching, planning, implementing, and installing new hardware and software within the data centre,
• Compiling ICT network and data centres management reports.
• Maintain user accounts, permissions, and access rights on various databases,
• Provide support in database problem troubleshooting and resolutions,
• Conduct systems backups as per the backup schedules,
• Ensure the availability, capacity, security stability, and performance of all databases,
• Implement database disaster recovery plans,
• Implement database systems and process improvement plans for efficiency,
• Participate in testing of ICT disaster receiver plans for databases,
• Maintain documentation of data storage and operational procedures.

• Java
• Python
• C#
• .NET
• Django
• Angular
• Agile methodologies
• Version control
• CI/CD
• Database administration
• Network infrastructure
• Cybersecurity

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
• Equivalent discipline