Assistant Manager (UI/UX Engineer) Job at Kenya Revenue Authority

• Hands-on design and supervision of UI/UX application design work.
• Organizes interactions between the members of the UI/UX team to nurture best practices and encourage knowledge-& tool-sharing.
• Provides guidance and harmonization of best practices on agile methodologies and practices to ensure smooth communication and collaboration. Ensure adoption of Design System and UX/UI patterns.
• Acts as a mentor for the Specialist resources in their Practice, helping them grow in expertise and experience new areas.
• Designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets.
• Develops new systems to automate business processes in conformity with design artifacts contained in System Change Requests (SCRs).
• Conducts peer reviews and unit tests of developed solutions to guarantee quality before final submission to Quality Management.
• Prepares documentation (User manuals, Technical manuals, deployment instructions, roll back instructions, etc) to ensure that they meet set quality standards
• Ensures that solutions that have been developed are properly packaged and that all the components and requisite documentation are included in the package, for submission to Quality Management.
• Ensures that the approved coding standards are consistently applied in every solution developed.
• Participates in system demonstration, and ensures issues arising in demos are addressed.
• Addresses issues that arise during the deployment of the newly developed solutions in the QA test environment.
• Resolves issues arising from QA tests, for solutions that do not pass QA standards and Information System Security policies.
• Ensure conformity to ISO (9001:2015 and 27001:2013) and data security requirements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications design, human-computer interaction (HCI), cognitive science or any other IT related field.

Required Certifications/Training;

Professional Certification or Training in any one of the following areas is required:

• UI/UX training/Certification
• Systems Development i.e. Java Programming, Web Design and Development, Oracle Developer etc.
• Business Systems Analysis i.e. CBAP Certification / Training
• Systems Modelling and Design Techniques
• Process Modelling and Design Techniques

Desired Certifications;

Certification or training in any of the following areas will be an added advantage:

• Training in middle-level management / Supervisory Skills courses.
• IT Governance i.e. ITIL or COBIT 4/5
• Project Management i.e. PMP or Prince 2
• Training or Certification in Database Administration i.e. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Training in operating systems i.e. Windows, Linux or Unix.