IT Jobs in Kenya - Seven Seas Technologies

Seven Seas Technologies is a leading provider of integrated business and technology solutions across Africa in the Financial, Telecom, Real Estate, Service Industries and Government.

We work in partnership with global technology industry leaders in collaborative synergies with domain & technology centric eco-system partners.

We deliver business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation. Our core motivation is defining service excellence in technology driven business solutions.

Solution Architect-Data Centre and Applications Infrastructure; REF: SST/KE/SA-DCAI/2012:

Due to our rapid expansion, we are seeking a results oriented, highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to fill the above vacant position;

Reporting to the Technical Operations Manager –Technology Infrastructure, you will be responsible for providing presales technical and functional support in data centre and application infrastructure to prospective clients and customers.

Key responsibilities

• Convert customer data centre infrastructure technical requirements to solutions;
• Develop and deliver high quality demonstrations on solutions offered;
• Design, validate, and present data centre solutions to include advanced product concepts, future direction, and 3rd party complementary products;
• Develop and manage reference sites through high quality technical, professional client relationships;
• Support systems engineers to provide correct technical design, architecture, qualification and presentation of solutions for proposals;
• Manage and execute technical lead generation activities in liaison with the sales team to ensure departmental sales objectives are met; and
• Support the data centre team in project execution.

Qualifications and experience

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering ,Business Information Technology or related field;
• Vendor Certifications in Oracle/Sun, IBM, EMC, VMWare, Symantec, NetApp and other relevant data center server and storage certifications;
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a technical Telecommunications/ Engineering/ IT management position, preferably 2 in a busy technical sales position; and
• Project Management experience and certification will be an added advantage.

For the above position, you require to have strong planning and organizing skills with excellent verbal and written communication. You must also demonstrate the ability to lead teams and make decisions.

You must also demonstrate the ability to work in a highly driven environment, be results oriented and an innovative thinker.

If you believe you are the right candidate for the above position and can clearly demonstrate your ability to meet the above criteria, submit your application with a detailed CV, quoting the reference number, current and expected gross salary to talent@sevenseastech.com on or before 20th March 2012

Senior Java Developer; REF: SST/KE/SE-JD/2012

Due to our rapid expansion, we are seeking two results oriented, highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to fill the above contractual vacant position;

Reporting to the Technical Operations Manager-Business Applications, you will be responsible for developing interfaces between core banking and internet banking applications.

Key responsibilities

• Design patterns and concepts in Java/J2EE;
• Develop technical and functional business requirements to clients in response to proposals;
• Translate requirements into technical design;
• Configure, customize and test the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus);
• Prepare technical documentation and training to the team;
• Design & develop the integration (interfaces) between internet banking Application Server and the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) ;and
• Design & develop the integration (interfaces) between the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and the Bank Back Office Systems.

Qualifications and experience

• A Bachelors degree in IT.
• At least 4 years of experience in a technical environment;
• Hands on experience with Jboss Application Server and Jboss ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) programming; and
• Experience in preparing technical solution briefs.

For the above position, you require to have strong planning and organizing skills with excellent verbal and written communication.

You must also demonstrate the ability to work in a highly driven environment, be results oriented and an innovative thinker.

If you believe you are the right candidate for the above position and can clearly demonstrate your ability to meet the above criteria, submit your application with a detailed CV, quoting the reference number, current and expected gross salary to talent@sevenseastech.com on or before 20th March 2012