6 days ago
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end technology architectures for new and existing credit products across Telco and M-PESA.
- Translate business, product, and credit requirements into solution architectures, system components, interfaces, and integration designs.
- Design integrations among customer channels, M-PESA, Telco systems, credit scoring platforms, loan management platforms, banks, FinTechs, and external data providers.
- Define functional and non-functional requirements covering scalability, availability, performance, resilience, security, and privacy.
- Design data ingestion, exchange, API, and real-time decisioning mechanisms for credit scoring and automated credit assessment.
- Define loan lifecycle interfaces and workflows covering eligibility, application, approval, disbursement, repayment, and collections.
- Evaluate partner platforms, APIs, data models, technical capabilities, risks, dependencies, and integration approaches.
- Produce solution architecture documents, system diagrams, interface specifications, data flow designs, and technical specifications.
- Provide architectural oversight during development, testing, deployment, and production rollout while resolving technical dependencies and integration bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, FinTech, digital banking, or related technology roles.
- Strong experience designing complex end-to-end technology solutions and system integrations.
- Experience with API-based integration, microservices, middleware, event-driven architectures, cloud, databases, and modern application architecture.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data integration, data flows, data models, integration patterns, and real-time data exchange.
- Experience with digital lending, loan management systems, credit scoring platforms, decision engines, third-party platforms, or external data providers.
- Strong understanding of security, privacy, resilience, and scalability requirements for financial platforms.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical and scalable technical architectures and produce architecture diagrams and solution design documents.
- Strong stakeholder management and written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Preferred experience in telecommunications, mobile financial services, banking, FinTech, digital lending, credit bureaus, alternative data platforms, or banking and FinTech platform integrations.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Safaricom
Safaricom builds and operates mobile and fixed connectivity services and the M-PESA mobile money platform for consumers and enterprises in East Africa. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Nairobi, it is publicly listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and is part-owned by Vodacom Group and the Government of Kenya. The company runs Kenya’s largest mobile network and has expanded into Ethiopia through Safaricom Ethiopia.