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Kazang Connect Job Opening: Data Engineer

Sopuruchukwu Elizabeth Mba
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Kazang Connect Job Opening: Data Engineer

Kazang Connect is a significant provider of best-rated financial technology solutions in Southern Africa. It offers prepaid voice, mobile data, and electricity via proprietary mobile vending terminals that process thousands of micropayments per minute. DSTV subscription payments and RICA registration are also available.

We believe that our comprehensive range of products and services are the building blocks retailers can use to navigate towards the success they aspire.

We connect you with solutions to maximize your business potential.

Job Description

  • As a Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to play a leading role in the design and development of an ETL solution to centralize data from various sources into a single environment.
  • This solution will be used across businesses to empower both Analytics and Data Science. The Data Engineer will need to play a role in the designing of the architecture around the ETL pipelines, but also in the handling of the data itself to create, maintain and ensure the integrity of features for business needs.
  • The successful applicant will work alongside Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Business Analysts to scope business and technical requirements in their day-to-day role.
  • This role requires a candidate with a strong passion for data who is excited to be involved in the decision-making and implementation of such a system from conception to implementation.

Key Responsibilities

This role requires a candidate with a strong passion for data who is excited to be involved in the decision-making and implementation of such a system from conception to implementation.

  • Develop an understanding of where and how data is currently stored within our environments.
  • Formulate strategies on how to aggregate data across multiple systems into a single repository for both analytics as well as data science.
  • Implement the above strategies to improve our data warehouse and to make a single-source-of-truth database available for consistent analytics across our company.
  • Build and maintain a feature store for use in Data Science.
  • Develop dashboards in PowerBI.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years experience as a Data Engineer
  • Extensive experience in MySQL, PostGRES, AWS, Redshift, Python, R, Linux

Minimum requirements

  • BSc in Computer Science Degree or BSc in Statistics would be an advantage

Number of positions available: 1

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Duration: Full time

Commencement Date: Immediately

 

How to Apply?

Click here to apply

 

 

[Press Release] Cloudmania Opens Opportunities for Africa’s Business Market

Mena Adediran
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[Press Release] Cloudmania Opens Opportunities for Africa’s Business Market

Cloudmania, an exclusive provider of Cloud Partner Programmes in Africa, has opened its doors in 13 countries across the continent. The indirect provider focuses on partner building and enablement by giving resellers the ability to resell superior solutions by leveraging Cloudmania.

According to Winston Ritson, Chief Business Officer, Cloudmania, “We understand the growing need for cloud services and its vital role to ensure seamless collaboration between employees. Our extensive expertise will ensure that you are provided with the appropriate tools to assist your customers on their cloud migration journeys. Just as customers have transformed their business, partners have to transform and rely on a partner invested in their business.”

Cloudmania aims to help businesses keep track of their data, performance and customers, and creates a single-pane view of the entire network. In addition, the programme is designed to increase workflow efficiency, lower operational costs, and most importantly, develop partnerships with resellers.

Cloudmania will assist partners’ profitability by supporting them with marketing, training and specialist advice. Using the programme’s communication channels, the team will source qualified and unqualified leads to help partners build their businesses. The offering is backed by superior world-class technology, equipping a reseller’s business with innovative cloud technology, enabling them to offer exceptional customer solutions.

All resellers will have access to a suite of solutions tailored to suit customers’ needs. The products include Microsoft 365, One Voice – a unified voice solution, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure in a box, Cyber Security, cloud connectivity, cloud infrastructure, Google workspace, Windows virtual desktop and Basekit site builder.

Cloudmania will assist in boosting the performance of a reseller offering while ensuring affordability, scalability, improving uptime, availability and provide seamless integration. The offerings are supported by partner development managers in each country, a panel of experts and focused training programmes. Resellers engaging with the Cloudmania will also benefit from in-country billing in specific territories and reseller discounts.

Cloudmania and its impressive suite of offerings is currently available in South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Liquid Intelligent Technologies.

 About Liquid Intelligent Technologies:

Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, is a pan-African technology group present in more than 20 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading provider of pan-African digital infrastructure with an extensive network covering over 100,000 km. Liquid Intelligent Technologies is redefining network, Cloud and Cyber Security offerings through strategic partnerships with leading global players, innovative business applications, smart cloud services and world-class security on the African continent. Liquid Intelligent Technologies is now a comprehensive, one-stop technology group that provides customised digital solutions to public and private sector companies across the continent under several business units including Liquid Networks, Liquid Cloud and Cyber Security and Africa Data Centres.

This press release was first published on Guardian.ng: https://guardian.ng/apo-press-releases/cloudmania-opens-opportunities-for-africas-business-market/

Educatly, an Egyptian Ed-Tech Firm, Has Raised $1 Million in a Pre-seed Round

Abdulquadri Ayilara
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Educatly, an Egyptian Ed-Tech Firm, Has Raised $1 Million in a Pre-seed Round

Enterprise Ireland, Fala Startups, and other angel investors have invested $1 million in Educatly, an Egyptian edtech firm. Prior to the platform’s launch in late 2020, a pre-Seed round will be held.

Educatly is an educational technology platform that allows students to search, compare, and apply to over 120,00 live and current higher education options throughout the world.

The site has grown to over 100,000 users from 190 countries, with over 500,000 programs viewed since its launch in 2020.

Mohamed ElSonbaty, Abdelrahman Ayman, and Joan Manuel launched Educatly with the goal of assisting students in getting into the colleges of their choice.

Educatly democratizes higher education access by allowing students to connect with themselves, search, compare and apply to over 120,000 live and up-to-date higher education opportunities around the world.

The firm now wants to use the pre-seed capital to grow its product, expand its workforce, and ramp up sales and marketing efforts, with over 100,000 users from 190 countries globally.

The company claims to be revolutionizing education in the same way that LinkedIn revolutionized the job market.

“At the same time, COVID-19 has placed great pressure on institutions to digitize not just their educational programs, but also the manner they offer them and communicate with prospective students,” Joan Manuel, Co-Founder, and Chief Commercial Officer, said.

While the world has seen tremendous progress in digital transformation across all sectors, the startup is especially concerned about the global education ecosystem, which is fragmented and heavily reliant on infrastructure built decades ago that no longer fits the current operation, which has a number of negative consequences for how transparent and effective people access their lifelong learning.

Students, according to Abdelrahman Ayman, Co-Founder and COO, desire unfettered access to all relevant options as well as as much individualized counseling as possible to help them make the best decision.

Individuals may search the most up-to-date database in the world, with over 120.000 higher education possibilities, at educatly.com, and filter results based on their profiles and preferences to locate the programs that are most relevant to them, he says.

Norrsken Foundation in Kigali Provides Funding to Rwandan Tech Startups

Abdulquadri Ayilara
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Norrsken Foundation in Kigali Provides Funding to Rwandan Tech Startups

PesaChoice and Viebeg, two Rwandan tech firms, have received undisclosed seed funding from the Norrsken Foundation in Kigali.

Niklas Adalberth launched the Norrsken Foundation in 2016 with the goal of assisting founders in addressing the world’s most pressing issues. The firm’s Norrsken House co-working space in Kigali is set to debut in less than a month.

PesaChoice is a financial technology firm that helps consumers with limited access to institutional credit bridge the gap between their paychecks and unforeseen costs. Users can apply for micro-loans at a fixed interest rate quickly and easily, removing the need for predatory lenders, mounds of paperwork, and long wait times to acquire funds.

Meanwhile, Viebeg is an e-health company developing a procurement platform to ensure that healthcare institutions always have the proper sort and quantity of product in stock to treat patients. Over 230 hospitals in Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo utilize its software, which helps them acquire supplies more efficiently and saves them up to 40% on costs.

“Norrsken’s funding will enable our company to develop predictive analytics models that will improve health care in the region by utilizing local expertise,” says the company. Tobias Reiter, CEO and founder of Viebeg Technologies, said, “We are pleased to be a part of Kigali’s fast-growing, dynamic innovation sector, which Norrsken is developing.”

“At PesaChoice, our mission is to make a difference by facilitating access to financing.” Davis Davis Nteziryayo, CEO and co-founder of PesaChoice, said, “We are happy to be part of the Norrsken family because of our shared vision for Kigali’s future as a startup hub.”

“We are dedicated to creating a healthy environment for East African companies, with Norrsken House in Kigali serving as the epicenter,” says the company. This promise includes these investments. “We believe Kigali has a bright future as one of Africa’s premier entrepreneurial hotspots, and we want to help expedite that journey,” Pascal Murasira, managing director of Norrsken East Africa, said.

Kasookoo Communications Receives Catalytic’s Start-up Funding

Abdulquadri Ayilara
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Kasookoo Communications Receives Catalytic’s Start-up Funding

Catalytic Africa has selected Kasookoo Communications as a recipient of its first round of funding for entrepreneurs in the Anglophone Africa ecosystem. South South-East Angel Network (SSEAN), an African Business Angels (ABAN) registered Network, assisted in the selection process.

It marks the successful conclusion of an initial pilot phase and the launch of the Catalytic Africa Platform, which co-invests with angel investors in businesses to help African startups develop and thrive in African and worldwide markets.

The future of business communications is a single interface that provides customers with an all-immersive and interactive experience, allowing them to communicate with businesses via whichever channel they like without interrupting the flow of conversation or context.

Kasookoo Communications has entered the market with a cloud-based omnichannel contact center solution to provide enterprises and small businesses with much-needed support for superior multi-channel engagement, boosting customer experience, raising overall customer satisfaction levels, and avoiding the costs of traditional infrastructure deployment.

GSM telephony, which was not built to deliver the capability of digital business communications, is causing problems for African organizations. Today’s businesses must compete with better-informed customers who expect to be served efficiently and effectively via a variety of platforms.

“Kasookoo’s customer engagement center focuses on enterprises with both small and large teams with sophisticated communication processes,” says co-founder Akin Braithwaite. It’s a subscription-based platform that, among other things, allows teams to work more collaboratively internally by allowing them to use numerous devices, skill-based routing, and video conferencing. This promotes seamless client engagement regardless of location, which is proving to be incredibly effective in this new ‘Work Anywhere’ era. The technology may be setup in a matter of hours for organizations, allowing for easy configuration without the need for a team of engineers to maintain it.

Co-founder and group CEO Ahmer Javaid reacted that “African enterprises can completely fulfill their potential with the extensible and cutting-edge cloud services given in one convenient interface”. Kasookoo provides a competitive advantage to businesses by providing a platform that allows them to resolve customer complaints faster and generate more leads by utilizing cutting-edge technologies.

“Businesses may anticipate discovering considerable benefit in utilizing Kasookoo’s cloud-hosted platform,” says Javaid. Without having to worry about their communications, our solution allows businesses to focus on the difficult task of increasing and keeping their client base. We’re delighted about the adoption of our platform by African firms, which can now compete more effectively in the marketplace thanks to Kasookoo’s interfaces with productivity tools like CRM.

Kasookoo Communications is a Nokia spin-off that trades as Yuave. Border Restaurants, Religious Organizations, Health Management Institutions, Public Offices, Education, Logistics, eCommerce, Hotels, Travel, and more are among the primary verticals served by the company.

Egypt ICT Minister, Russian Delegation Discuss Investment Plans for Egypt ICT Sector

Mena Adediran
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Egypt ICT Minister, Russian Delegation Discuss Investment Plans for Egypt ICT Sector

Egypt ICT Minister, Amr Talaat, hosted a Russian delegation led by Maxim Parshin, the Russian Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media. The delegates are in Cairo over a trade mission on telecommunication technologies and digital solutions.

 The subject of the meeting was the investment opportunities open in the Egyptian ICT sector and the methods both countries can use to boost their cooperation in the field particularly with providing digital solutions and building digital capacity.

 Talaat evaluated the Digital Egypt Strategy goals of transforming into an integrated digital society based on digital transformation, digital skills, and digital innovation. He expressed the anticipation of attracting Russian companies to invest in the Egyptian ICT market. Talaat also added that his ministry is taking a “pyramid-shaped” approach to upskilling the different parts of society in various ICT areas.

 Furthermore, Talaat mentioned the Digital Egypt Builders Initiative (DEBI), which offers a Master’s degree in courses such as artificial intelligence and data science, automation and robotics, cybersecurity, and digital arts.

 The Russian Deputy Minister, Maxim Parshin pointed out Russia’s expertise in digitization and that Russia is the world’s top country in the field of cybersecurity.

 Parshin expressed Russia’s eagerness to collaborate and share expertise in the aforementioned fields with Egypt citing that there are about 50,000 Russian companies specialized in Information Technology.

 The Russian delegation was also present at a joint workshop organized by the Egyptian Information, Telecommunications, Electronics, and Software Alliance (EITESAL). Where topics revolving around the subject of digital solutions and Information Technology were also discussed. And about 25 Egyptian companies were in attendance.

Mastercard Job Opening in Nigeria: Manager, Gateway, Tech Support

Sopuruchukwu Elizabeth Mba
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Mastercard Job Opening in Nigeria: Manager, Gateway, Tech Support

MasterCard is a leading global financial services and technology company located in the MasterCard International Global Headquarters, Purchase, New York, United States, in Westchester County.

We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless.

Role: Manager, Gateway, Tech Support

Location: Lagos, Nigeria.

Duration: full time

Deadline: not specified

Job Description

  • The Customer Solutions Center is a new structure that enables MasterCard to develop better solutions & bundles for prioritized customer segments in markets.
  • It is the housing for all MasterCard capabilities in geography, and it aims to drive MasterCard growth and revenue by creating and selling compelling data-driven, scalable needs-based solutions to new and existing customers by tapping into MasterCard’s extensive toolbox of products and services offerings.
  • Products and Solutions roles will support the Customer Solution Center Lead & Solution Architects to bring together existing MA capabilities, products, and solutions in a holistic, bundled way to customers.
  • They also act as an expert for their products/solutions portfolio in their geography, to drive an enabling market and support sales as well as acting as the key interface with regional product teams to ensure an effective feedback loop.
  • This role reports to the Customer Solution Center Lead + regional MPGS team.

Key Responsibilities

Act as an expert for their geography/solution portfolio:

  • Provides Payment Gateway, Fraud solutions, online payments, eCommerce subject matter expertise and leverages MasterCard acceptance solutions to drive sales and revenue goals
  • Work with acquirers, payment facilitators, and payment service providers to drive MPGS utilization and enable the roll-out of new checkout experiences
  • Provides market intelligence and market requirements to product managers to support product design, development, and implementation efforts
  • Build and manage a strong sales pipeline and monitor opportunities
  • Bring their deep knowledge of products, services, or platform capabilities to a solution-selling environment
  • Accountable for having a deep understanding of the assigned product, service, or platform
  • Provide visibility to the CSCL and SA on the latest product developments within their purview and communicate accurate solution knowledge to tackle client opportunities
  • Proactively monitor and engage with customers to ensure customer success and benefit from MasterCard’s products and solutions

Support CSC value proposition development and sale:

  • Provide the Solution Architects (SA) and the Customer Solution Center Lead (CSCL) with their solution expertise in crafting the technical architecture of the customer value proposition
  • Coordinate with the help of SA and CSCL, with other sales specialists in developing an end-to-end value proposition
  • Provide their expertise and deep knowledge of product implementation and success with clients during the solution selling process (upon the request of the CSCL or AM/BD)

Drive an enabling market, localization, and support sales:

  • Enabling new capabilities in the market e.g. SRC, MDES, Contactless, QR, etc. and ensuring market readiness
  • Supporting AM’s in their market to optimize what we have today e.g. providing expert advice/ guidance on prepaid penetration for an existing relationship
  • Work directly with client counterparts on non-complex, one solution-focused opportunities when the AM needs their support

Knowledge and best practice sharing:

  • Share information on the latest customer needs and opportunities as well as relevant market intelligence with the product management teams to drive smart solutions internally within MA
  • Share best practices and knowledge with other SSs to improve the solution of their product, service, or platform within client contexts

Note: Senior Products and Solutions roles in large CSCs may manage a team.

Requirements

  • Deep technical expertise in assigned product, service, or platform capability
  • Ability to collaborate and work on internal squads created to develop end-to-end solutions for clients with multiple MA capabilities i.e. products, services, or platforms
  • Clear ability to solve problems and understand relationships with the client’s needs
  • Ability to communicate with and build a relationship with client counterparts when requested by account managers or business development managers
  • Strong communication skills
  • Apply here

Nigerian Fintech Startup Kippa Gets $3.2m Pre-seed Funding

Hassan Barakat
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Nigerian Fintech Startup Kippa Gets $3.2m Pre-seed Funding

Nigerian Fintech startup Kippa, has raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding, in its attempt to improve the life cycle of small businesses having issues with bookkeeping and storing important information, with its finance management app.

The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global.

Babs Ogundeyi, Kuda CEO; Sriram Krishnan, an investor in Khatabook; Raffael Johnen, Auxmoney CEO; Chris Bouwer; Kyane Kassiri; Edward Suh of Goodwater Capital; and Sajid Rahman — invested in the startup.

How Kippa Works

Kippa works as a simple app where small business owners can keep track of their daily income and expense transactions, create invoices and receipts, manage inventory and generally monitor their business flow over time.

According to the company, one of the app’s most important features is that it helps merchants keep track of debtors and send automated reminders to them, and in this way merchants who use Kippa the way it is designed “recover debts 3x faster.”

The majority of these features are aimed at bringing a diverse range of Nigerian businesses onto the platform; however, the plan is to provide them with credit and other financial services.

The co-founder and CEO Kennedy Ekezie says, small firms do the majority of their transactions in cash, and more than 30% of their purchases are made on credit. So, at its core, the largest issue that firms confront is a lack of operating capital or credit, not a lack of bookkeeping or tools.

The CEO added, “And we do have a unique opportunity to help them accept online digital payments, to provide them with working capital, digital savings and plug them into the financial ecosystem.”

Many startups have started with bold claims this year, tackling various demands of small businesses — all with different approaches: some want to manage bookkeeping, some seek to connect small businesses with suppliers, while others provide banking and software services. But, in truth, they all lead to the same place, which is extending credit.

While this is true, Kippa is “choosing to be digitally native, rather than pursuing the digitization of analogue processes as prior players have done, and this distinguishes the company” according to CEO Ekezie.

As Kippa remains free for businesses to use at the moment, the introduction of credit and other financial services will see the company make revenue by taking commission fees or interests off lending or working capital.

Since its inception in June, the bookkeeping and finance software claims to have expanded at a monthly rate of 126 percent on average.

Kippa claims to have logged more than $300 million in sales in the last five months, with over 130,000 active companies ranging from small kiosks and street corner shops to local food vendors and high-end retailers utilizing the app.

These numbers show a substantial need for the product in the Nigerian market, according to the main investor Target Global, which is why it invested.

How It Got Here

Ekezie and his co-founders started Kippa in February 2021. Before Kippa, the trio had tried founding a software talent matching platform which they called Africave. According to Ekezie, they moved on from Africave after recognizing imminent supply constraints that would put a cap on the company’s growth.

According to the CEO, the founders wanted to tackle a problem that was a good fit for their skills. Kippa was born after embarking on a founder-market-fit trip across Nigeria and visiting various small business owners to identify their pain points.

“What we noticed was a lot of them functioning extremely manually with ledgers, spending an hour or more at the end of the day balancing their accounts, making mistakes, canceling out, and complaining about their records being incomplete,” Ekezie explained.

“And we recognized a broader problem — the lack of access to finance or capital to run a business correctly — which is the largest problem small businesses confront.” As a result, we believed it would be a fun problem to solve.”

Plans for The Pre-seed Funding

Kippa’s pre-seed funding, which is one of the largest in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa, will be used to expand the company’s merchant network, improve its product, scale the team, and enter the financial services market.

Vella Finance Enables Crypto Utility and Spend Ability in Africa

Boluwatife Aponmade
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Vella Finance Enables Crypto Utility and Spend Ability in Africa

Vella Finance, a US-based financial technology startup will enable the use of crypto utilization and spend ability in Africa. It is a startup that is based on helping Africans pay and receive money with cash or crypto anywhere in the world.

The new financial startup was founded by Mark Afolabi, Tolu Adedayo, and Segun Fagbami. Vella Finance’s aim is to enable crypto utility and spending ability in Africa.

Vella Finance Enables Crypto Utility and Spend Ability in Africa

“Vella wants to facilitate a crypto utility system for Africans at a time when fintech and cryptocurrency are both gaining traction in the region. The company was launched into beta on the 1st of November and has gone to record some little wins just after a few days in the market.”, Tolu Adedayo said.

With Vella Finance, users are going to be able to save in USDT, send money, pay merchants in China, receive money, swap currencies, and also pay bills using crypto or cash. The payment platform is presently live on the web and will come to Android and IOS soon.

“Over the past days, we have had a number of people who have shown sincere interest in what we are building and already love the Vella experience, we have successfully onboarded 300+ users and have done over $20,000 in transactions as at the last count”, Adedayo said.

Vella finance will be launching other new features adapted for African businesses in the coming months.

Enugu Governor Ugwuanyi Emerges Top Nominee for Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards (NTITA) 2021

Mena Adediran
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Enugu Governor Ugwuanyi Emerges Top Nominee for Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards (NTITA) 2021

Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Governor of Enugu State, Nigeria has come out as part of the top nominees for the Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards (NTITA) 2021. The NTITA is an award ceremony dedicated to digital leaders and pioneers championing notable change in Nigeria.

The event is set to hold on Friday the 19th in Lagos. NTITA is recognised as a cherished Information Technology and Telecoms programme in Nigeria.

Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards holds annually and is a collaborative effort of stakeholder bodies such as Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) and the African Digital Economy Forum (ADEF).

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi ranks for the ICT Governor of the Year award.

Addressing this, Akin Naphtal, CEO of InstinctWave (the media company powering the event), said “Gov. Ugwuanyi’s consistent leverage on technology and strong ICT policy-thrusts to rework the economic future of Enugu State has drawn much admiration, earning the South-Eastern state top spot in the national drive towards a digital economy.

“The state has multiple nominations in NTITA 2021 including Tech Innovation Hub of the Year and Emerging Leaders in Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) in Public Sector.”

Enugu State also leads the list for Tech Innovation Hub of the Year (Mentoring & Capacity Building), and Emerging Leaders in Innovation/Tech Advisory (Public Sector).

Another notable nominee is Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.

Award categories include: ICT Governor of the Year, Digital Leader of the Year, Public Sector ICT Woman of the Year, Public Sector ICT CEO of the Year, Telecom CEO of the Year, Tech Innovation Hub of the Year (Mentoring & Capacity Building), Emerging Leaders in Innovation/Tech Advisory (Public Sector), Emerging ICT CEO for 2021, Most Innovative and ICT Focused State 2021; amongst others.

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