Premier Switch Solutions S.C. (PSS) is a pioneer Electronic Payment Processing Company, established by major private banks of Ethiopia and working for the vision of Driving Digital Solutions for all. The Company has implemented the first multi-institution shared-switch infrastructure to provide its member banks with a state of the art payment technology to drive ATM, POS, e-commerce, Mobile Banking and other payment channels and provide clearing of Debit/Credit card transactions for the banks. Currently, PSS has a vacant position stated below and would like to invite applicants who meet the qualification and required experience listed for this job opening.

Duties and Responsibilities

• responsible for overseeing and developing Database Management, Analytics, and Integration strategies to facilitate the smooth operation of the department on database administration; application integration; Management Information System

• Plan, supervise, lead, and manage the department team

• Oversee database Management & integration results by setting and enforcing standards and controls.

• Oversee proper functioning of the database and application administration, performance tuning, capacity usage and planning, security configuration and monitoring

•  Review and recommend periodic database and application security patch update as per vendors’ recommendations and best practices

• Oversee Management Information System (MIS) report development, scheduling auto report generation and user support

• Develop procedures to ensure data integrity and quality are maintained.

•  Coordinate integration, message type configuration and end-user support

• Oversee and manage In-house application configuration, deployment, testing, troubleshooting, monitoring and prepare user manual document 

• Establish switch and any other application integration, product or service maintenance, switch transaction testing using a simulator.

• Ensure business continuity through maximum high availability architecture 

• Assess, recommend, and implement new software tools and third-party database management and analytics integrations as needed or directed.

• Oversee and database management, application integration systems and analytics projects and project teams to achieve successful completion of the project timeline.

• Oversee enterprise application integration platform to ensure seamlessly connecting a variety of on-prem Management Information System (MIS) and cloud apps to transform and orchestrate the data required for business workflows 

• Prepare periodic reports

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Job Requirements

Qualification & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in ICT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Project Management, or any other related field 

• At least 8 years of relevant experience, with 2 years as a supervisor

• Certificate in Database, Middleware, Analytics tools, APIs, Information security systems or related certification

• Exposure in PCI DSS is preferable

• Relevant professional certification is advantageous

How to Apply

Interested applicants who meet the required qualifications are invited to submit their updated CV and copies of relevant documents within 7 days of this announcement. 

• We only accept applications sent via our email: pss.hr@pss-ethiopia.com or CLICK HERE

• Please write clearly for which position you applied on the email subject line.

NB : Only short-listed candidates will be contacted