Terms of Service: Permanent & Pensionable, upon successful completion of six (6) months probationary period.
Remuneration: As per KRA salary structure.
Job Highlights
The Supervisor, Big Data Operations reports to the Assistant Manager, Big Data Operations.
Job Summary
The jobholder shall be responsible for implementation and optimization of the big data infrastructure supporting revenue processing, compliance analytics, fraud detection, and revenue forecasting. The role involves maintaining highly available and secure data pipelines and platforms that process vast volumes of data in real time and batch to derive actionable insights and ensure data-driven decision-making.
Duties and responsibilities
- Operate and maintain big data platforms to ensure high availability and performance
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in production data pipelines and jobs.
- Work closely with data scientists, and other key stakeholders to understand business data needs and ensure the infrastructure supports business analytical requirements.
- Monitor and optimize performance of big data systems and ensure efficient data processing and retrieval.
- Implement and enforce data security and privacy measures in compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
- Conduct performance tuning and capacity planning of data infrastructure.
- Maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure operational visibility and accountability
- Develop and maintain documentation for data operations, workflows, and runbooks.
- Utilize latest big data tools and technologies, learn and adapt to use of new solution tools as they become available.
Person specifications
For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field from a recognized institution.
- Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience.
- Membership to a relevant professional body.
Demonstrate Technical proficiency in the following knowledge areas:-
- ETL and building functional data pipelines.
- Database management systems.
- Scripting languages and workflow orchestration tools
- Big data tools and technologies
- Data visualization tools Data lakes, data lake houses and data warehouses.
- Tools for metadata management and data cataloging.
- Cloud-based data platforms Data governance frameworks, security protocols, and privacy regulations.
Key Competencies
- Supervisory skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Proactive and results-oriented mindset.
- Attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Adaptability and openness to learning new technologies.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams effectively.
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’.
In case of any challenges, please send your email query to isupporthr@kra.go.ke
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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)
