IT Applications Developer

Job overview

• Organization: KCB Bank Tanzania (KCBT)
• Department: Technology Department
• Location: Tanzania, United Republic of
• Job identification: 5775
• Job category: Management
• Degree level: Bachelor’s degree
• Job schedule: Full-time
• Posting date: 20 August 2026 at 6:32 PM
• Application deadline: 3 September 2026 at 8:00 PM

Key responsibilities

• Contribute application development initiatives to the overall IT strategy.
• Work with business units to formulate banking products and provide technical guidance during the procurement process.
• Analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions in accordance with KCBT policies and industry best practices.
• Manage project resources, schedules, costs, stakeholders, and the application development lifecycle.
• Implement best practices and deploy appropriate tools to manage and govern application development and the IT change process.
• Actively engage end-users to assess satisfaction and achieve successful project closure.
• Work with functional teams to hand over system support skills and documentation and formulate Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) with Level 3 support.
• Identify and champion innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
• Manage the team’s performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish sustainable practices.
• Develop, execute, and measure OLAs and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with IT functional teams and business units, respectively.

Daily responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze requests to implement new applications that resolve business challenges and improve process efficiency.
• Evaluate and analyze requests to modify existing software systems and applications where anomalies have been detected or processes are inefficient.
• Distribute and manage workloads among application developers.
• Manage the application development lifecycle and ensure adherence to the application development policy.
• Engage with business units to formulate strategies that use software systems to take advantage of business opportunities.
• Support banking operations administrators and operators in resolving core banking anomalies and refining operations.

Minimum qualification requirements

Academic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree: A bachelor’s degree in any computer-related field is required.
• Master’s degree: A master’s degree in a computer-related field or project management is an added advantage.

Professional qualifications

The following professional qualifications are required:

• Java certification
• Oracle certification
• Enterprise Architecture
• ITIL

Experience requirements

• At least two years of experience developing digital lending and savings solutions.
• A minimum of five years of total professional experience is required.

Need-type definitions:

• RQ: Required
• AA: Added advantage