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Job Title:   Applications Support Officer (2 Jobs)  

Organisation: PostBank Uganda Ltd (PBU)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

PostBank Uganda Ltd (PBU), a government owned bank regulated by Bank of Uganda under the Financial Institutions Act, 2004. The bank focuses on being the market leader in advancing financial inclusion.

Job Summary:  The applications support officer will be responsible for the proactive identification, isolation, and resolution of issues in the Business applications space. The incumbent will ensure platforms’ uptime and services availability, attend to customer trouble tickets escalated from front end teams within SLA and ensure efficient Operations & Maintenance of the Business Applications.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor IT Applications uptime and performance through monitoring tools, alerts, dashboards etc.
• Analysis and resolution of application-related issues which have been escalated from bank Level 2 support team during operations and maintain proper documentation/logs for resolution provided.
• Co-ordinate with Application Vendors support in case of product bug/enhancement requirement and follow up with the vendor for early resolution and solution.
• Owning all Application related calls, problems and incidents assigned in the IT service desk system to carry out problem investigation and analysis, follow-up with the respective teams and update the status with issue resolution and follow-up for closure.
• Knowledge transfer to end users and Level 1 team members through organized on job training.
• Own and document all Customizations/modifications done to the Bank’s Applications for continuity.
• Plan, co-ordinate and implement security measures to safeguard the Bank’s applications platform against accidental or unauthorized access or modification to the system.
• Schedule, plan and execute the installation and testing of new products, upgrades, patches, or improvement to the applications.
• Gather system enhancement, data extract requests and reporting requirements from system users and work closely with the information technology team to develop detailed technical requirements and resulting specifications.
• Maintains Banking systems performance by performing proactive system capacity and availability monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelors in IT, Computer Science or Business, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, and related fields.
• Certification in an IT related course is of added advantage
• Practical training in IT related short courses.
• At least three years of experience in IT department in a busy organization.
• Advanced knowledge in Unix/Linux operating systems
• In depth experience in SQL, and DBMs (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• In depth experience in Windows Operating systems
• Programming experience (Python, C#, PHP, JS, Java etc)
• Ability to trouble shoot and solve user problems.
• Scripting knowledge
• Ability to understand business needs.
• Versatile individual with a good attitude.
• Desire to continuously learn from peers and industry.
• Proactive and good at problem solving

How to Apply:

Please send your application to hr@postbank.co.ug addressed to the Chief HR Officer and put the job you are applying for as the Subject (Strictly).

Note:

The following documents should accompany the application strictly online:

• Detailed CV
• Certified copies of academic documents
• Applicants address and day time telephone contacts
• Postal/email address and daytime telephone contact of three referees of good standing in society one of which should be your current Supervisor.

Deadline: 10^th August 2023 at 5.00pm

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