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Head of Legacy Engineering & Migration Enablement leads legacy system modernization and cloud migration strategies, requires a Computer Science Degree and 5+ years systems engineering experience. Full-time role in Nairobi.\n\nRole Purpose\n\nLead Caava’s legacy engineering portfolio, protecting the company’s largest current revenue source while supporting new customer work, necessary modernisation and progressive migration to Evolve.\n\nBalance three priorities: Run, Grow & Modernise, and Migrate. Deliver through domain leads and specialist teams, with clear commitments from peer Heads—not by personally executing every activity.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nProtect legacy revenue and customer continuity\n\nKeep legacy products reliable and customers supported through application support, incident improvement and safe change.\n\nMaintain engineering coverage and recovery readiness in partnership with Platform Operations.\n\nBuild sufficient capacity and a resilient team\n\nMatch commitments to available skills; protect support and migration capacity and prevent double-booking.\n\nClose capacity gaps through hiring, partners and cross-training.\n\nRetain critical knowledge, strengthen succession and career paths, and develop teams without weakening customer support.\n\nDeliver customer work and modernisation predictably\n\nOwn engineering delivery of legacy SOWs, projects and lifecycle upgrades, including WebLogic, Java and Oracle.\n\nAlign estimates, resourcing, change control, testing and customer acceptance to meet commitments and protect delivery margin.\n\nReduce security, supportability and technical-debt risks through modernisation.\n\nEnable safe, repeatable migration to Evolve\n\nOwn the integrated customer migration plan and legacy-side readiness: business-rule discovery, data conversion, reconciliation and retirement.\n\nCoordinate peer-owned dependencies, rehearsals, cutover and rollback readiness; 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