Enterprise Architecture Department - Business Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

Key Responsibilities Include:

• 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, systems 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.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional
Education  

•  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study
• Professional Qualifications    CBAP, TOGAF 
• Project Management    Prince2 

Experience

• 4 Years Total Minimum Technical Experience Required 

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

• 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) 
• 2 years  experience in Operating systems (windows, Unix)
• 2 years experience inDatabase management systems 
• 3 years Prior working experience in formal Business Analysis / Applications Architecture
• 3 years experience in Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• 2 years experience in Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components 
• 2 years experience in Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories