Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 27 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 400 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on worldclass operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated in Mauritius, Ghana, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom.

The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly. Our people are talented, curious, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business.

The Role
We are seeking a System Architect to join our team on permanent role. You will work alongside our Senior & Lead Architects in development projects.

This role is for an experienced System Architect who has in-depth knowledge of software architecture.

We are seeking candidates with 8+ years’ experience in Architecture and Design. The successful candidate must possess exceptional communication skills, solid technical skills and creative problem-solving skills.

The position’s preferred location is one of our office locations in Lagos, Accra and Kampala. You will work normal hours, Monday to Friday, 0800 to 1700 (local time), with a combination of in person office attendance and working from home.

Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate with our Architect team on architecture and design work.
• Work closely with the development team and product team to ensure architecture & design implementing with defined standards and guidelines.
• Iteratively refine architecture & design based on feedback from stakeholders, and team.
• Designing scalable architecture & design for systems and applications using different tools, programming languages and frameworks.
• Identifying the hardware and software infrastructure needs to accommodate the company’s architectural goals.
• Anticipate, identify, track and resolve technical issues and risks affecting delivery.
• Generally, uphold the values of the Company.

Qualifications and experience
• 8+ years’ of experience in development, design, and architecture
• 3 years university degree with a proven background in math, science, finance, engineering are required; Advanced degrees in IT like masters in computers is a plus.
• Working experience in development projects with hands-on coding skills (Java and Python)
• Quick learning and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment and be open to feedback and suggestions.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

Technical Skills
• Languages: Java, Python, SQL.
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB
• Cloud: AWS services (EC2, RDS, EBS, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, SQS, SNS, Security Groups etc.)
• Devops: Kubernetes, Jenkins
• Architecture: Togaf / ArchiMate / Zakman

Why Work for us
• We have a very diverse work environment with over 28+ nationalities represented and continually strive to build a culture of caring and execution.
• We operate a flexible remote working policy.
• We offer a competitive salary package and bonuses.
• We prioritize the overall well-being of our staff through various initiatives aimed at ensuring they reach their full potential in a supportive environment.
• We work at the very cutting edge of fintech in Africa.
• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world in hope of continuing to make an impact on the millions, if not billions, of users who also believe in what we do.




Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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