Enterprise Architecture Department - Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits and opportunities of IT solutions. Understand the bigger picture and assess all smaller technical components and solutions as a coherent part of the whole infrastructure 
• Documentation of business requirements and processes for business initiatives and projects.
• Build a holistic view of the Bank’s strategy, processes, information and IT assets and ensuring the business and IT requirements are aligned 
• Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Designs complex systems in the Bank when required at the component level, make strategic technology choices, and directly supervise the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components. 
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects 
• Develop and maintain the Bank’s technology service catalogue with continuous assessment of applications fitness to fulfill their purpose to the Enterprise
• Lead in technology capacity management assessment and provide guidance on how best to close the identified gaps
• Support in developing the framework for IT asset management while providing guidance on how best to close the identified gaps
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning, and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables and mapping to infrastructure needs. 
• Lead in proactive management and reduction of technical debt (e.g. systems/components, tool proliferation, aging technologies) across all the technology domains.
•  Stay up dated on the latest trends/ technologies for cloud enablement and Platform as a Service and evaluate the platform capabilities vis -à-vis the trends; plan the roadmaps to incorporate the required functionality into the Bank infrastructure. 
• Provides knowledge leadership in relevant research areas, technology tools & standards and architectural governance. 
• Provides guidance to project teams regarding guiding principles, system and application design, standards, best practices, and system performance and availability 
• Support / participate in  acquisition of large projects by providing technical input and guidance on aspects of technology 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 

Academic & Professional 
Education     

• Bachelors Degree     
• Computer Science, Computer 
• Engineering, Information Technology  

Professional Qualifications 

• TOGAF / MCSE / MCITP /CCNA/ CISA/ Cloud Architect certifications
• OCP, LINUX / UNIX/ Databases  

Experience 

• 7 years Total Minimum Technical Experience Required

Detail     Minimum No of Years

• 5 years Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services and SOA).  
• 3 years Experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization. 
• 3 years Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework 
• Knowledge of IT Banking Systems 
• 3 years Implementation & Capabilities
• 4 years Knowledge of Hardware systems 
• 4 years Knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation and monitoring 
• 3 years Project Management Skills  
• 3 years Customer Service Skills  
• Knowledge of Network Security 
• 3 years Implementation and Design   
• 3 years Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid) 
• 3 years Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements 
• 3 years Knowledge of application of the organization products, services and policy 
• 3 years Knowledge of relevant industry