Terms of Service: Permanent & Pensionable upon successful completion of six(6) months probationary period
Remuneration: As per KRA salary structure
Key Highlights
The Assistant Manager - Business Intelligence Platform Engineering reports to Manager – Business Intelligence (BI) Platform Engineering
Job Purpose
The jobholder shall be responsible for implementing robust data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources. The person shall design and maintain pipelines while ensuring data quality and reliability and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Supervise and guide a team of data engineers to ensure timely delivery of data engineering projects, including the day to day administration of business intelligence platforms, tools and pipelines
- Plan, prioritize, and execute data engineering initiatives within established timelines and budgets and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify business challenges, opportunities, and data-driven solutions.
- Track project progress, address challenges, and ensure alignment with organizational objectives, define, measure, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor organizational and departmental performance.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable business intelligence platform, tools and data pipelines while ensuring that the data platforms infrastructure is optimized for performance and reliability.
- Supervise Data Engineering team in defining the data management and analytics strategic roadmap and align it with the organization's objectives.
- Integrate data from various systems, including structured and unstructured data sources, to create unified datasets and collaborate with data analytics and data science teams to support advance analytics and machine learning.
- Supervise rollout of new enhancements across data platforms, including upgrades, relevant API deployments.
- Assist in monitoring and maintaining the data infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to data storage, processing, and retrieval.
- Implement processes to validate and monitor data quality, ensuring consistency and accuracy across systems.
- Create and maintain documentation for the business intelligence platforms, tools, data pipelines, workflows, and infrastructure.
- Define and enforce coding standards and best practices for data engineering.
- Ensure data pipelines and storage systems adhere to security protocols and data privacy regulations.
Person Specifications
For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology/Business Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
- Four (4) years relevant work experience, one (1) of which must be at Supervisory level.
- Management Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution, will be an added advantage.
- Membership to a relevant professional body where applicable;
- Practicing License where applicable.
- Proficiency in Computer Applications.
Key Competencies
- Innovative thinking
- Organizational skills
- Resilience and Adaptability
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Customer-Centrism Approach
- Professionalism, Ethical Judgment and Integrity
Job Application Guidelines
Registration:
- Go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login and then click on the ‘Register’ button to start the application process.
- After registration, you will receive an email enabling you to confirm your email address and complete your registration.
Log on:
- After registration go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login
- Key in your username and password then click on ‘Log in’ to access your account.
- After successful log in, the system will open the ‘Applicant Cockpit’.
Candidate Profile (To create or update applicant detail):
- On the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page, go to the tab ‘Candidate Profile’.
- Click on ‘My Profile’ to create and update your profile.
- Follow the instructions to complete your profile.
- The process will end by clicking the tab “Overview and Release”.
- Ensure you click the check box on the page to complete the profile.
Application process:
- To view the open job postings, click on the tab ‘Employment Opportunities’ on the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page.
- Under the heading ‘Job Search’ click the ‘Start’ button to view all available vacancies.
- Click on the Job posting to display the details of the position.
- To apply for the position, click ‘Apply’ button at the top of the page.
- Follow the instructions to complete and submit your application.
- Kindly note that all mandatory fields must be completed.
- To complete the process of application, click the ‘Send Application Now’ button after reviewing and accepting the ‘Data Privacy Statement’.
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Kenya Revenue Authority does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, shortlisting, interviewing, and/or offer)
