Business Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position: 

The Business Architect will interpret and contextualize strategy for operational needs, develop specific artifacts such as business capability maps and value streams to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution, and help streamline and rationalize the IT enablement process. The primary focus will be the alignment of technology solutions to business needs through the analysis of business requirements, motivations, business operations and business models & frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviewing, analyzing, evaluating ideas and opportunities to develop new solutions, new technologies and business models for the business.
• Participate through scrums for the planning and execution of business initiatives / projects that move ideas from ideation, proto typing to full implementation.
• Conducts reviews and analysis of business requirements / organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of business applications.
• Creating business architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the organization.
• Conduct analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, system enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement.
• Ensure solutions proposed for development are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet operational targets / expectations.
• Define data needs/shared across the business and their interrelation.
• Works closely with solution/technical architects to deliver business architecture artifacts needed for End-to-End Enterprise Architecture & Solution Architecture Approach deliverables.
• Functions as a liaison to Business and IT partners in order to gain a broad understanding of technology / industry trends and innovations, and their impact on the business.
• Provide architectural support in projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.

The Person:  

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
• 4 years’ progressive experience in Information Technology with focus on Business Analysis, Applications Architecture or Software Development.
• 3 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Business Analysis, Application architecture, application development, middleware, and SOA)
• Experience with Operating systems (Windows/ Unix) and Database Management Systems.
• Experience working in Business Analysis / Applications Architecture.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components.