NCBA bank with subsidiaries in Rwanda, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Tanzania may require a highly experienced IT team to help the bank fix loopholes in its technology systems and department.
NCBA’s technical hiccup arose from planned shift into a uniform platform for all its customers in Kenya and the region following the merger of the former NIC Group and CBA Group. The upgrade involved bringing all the customers to one platform on the core banking system where the customer data lies and all calculations are done.
Recently the bank suffered a major cyber-attack after Mr Antony Mwangi Ngige, 23, and Ms Ann Wambui Nyoike, 21, two second-year students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology were accused and charged with stealing Sh25 million from the bank through hacking. They are also said to have attempted to defraud the lender an additional Sh190.7 million.
The bank said on Tuesday that it wants to hire an IT director following technical changes in migrating the bank’s systems and a hacking.
“Key responsibilities include use of domain knowledge and experience to define sufficient resilience for network, hardware, applications together with the accompanying disaster recovery plans,” NCBA said in the advertisement.
NCBA Bank Kenya, whose full name is NCBA Bank Kenya Plc, is a commercial bank in Kenya founded on September 29, 1959. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya, the country’s central bank and national banking regulator.