Enterprise Architecture Governance Specialist at KCB Bank Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Understand Bank’s Business Landscape, Technologies that support it and their relative contribution to the bank’s success to enable correct prioritization and effort focusing. 
• Create reviews and Assurance plans based on Architecture Segments, Architecture Domains, Business Area, Geographical region, Business Divisions, Technology Departments or Systems or customer touchpoints and engage the relevant stakeholders to formalize the plans and expectations.
• Maintain the target/approved state of the various Architecture Components (Blueprints) for review and design a detailed test backed by appropriate best practice.
• Identify relevant Stakeholders and Communicate with them to ensure understanding of Assurance goals, milestones, deliverables, and individual roles and responsibilities in the process.
• Facilitate engagements on the Assurance findings, exploring opportunities and Solutions to create a roadmap and remediation plan for issues found as well as gaps in achieving the target Architecture state.
• Ensure Proper tracking of the projects, initiatives put in place to remediate the compliance deficits and agreed roadmap, periodically conducting confirmation/verification checks, and reviewing escalations.
• Maintain a tight grip on Technical Debt across the group ensuring remediation efforts are on course and any deviations are appropriately reviewed and approved.
• Review the solutions design and development process ensuring a proactive approach to dealing with noncompliance of architectural principles, guidelines, and Standards.
• Provide regular updates to Technology Leadership and Other Stakeholders on the current state of Technology and the journey towards achieving the desired Architecture State.
• Proactively identify, plan, and communicate risks and roadblocks in the achievement of the target Architectural State and manage/escalate them appropriately.
• Preparing Review and Audit Plans for Compliance Status to Architectural Blueprints.
• Reviewing the selected segment, division, system, or subsidiary for architectural compliance.
• Engaging the stakeholders in coming up with appropriate measures and solutions to remediate architectural gaps identified.
• Reviewing Changes to technology environment to determine the impact of the current and desired Architectural status.
• Oversee the implementation of agreed opportunities and solutions assessing the remedial status for compliance and advising on any further actions required.

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.
• Professional qualifications in the following list will be added advantage:
• TOGAF or Other Architecture Related Certifications such as ArchiMate, SABSA, Bredemeyer, Zackman, BizBok.
• COBIT, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CGRC, ITIL.
• 5 years technical experience.
• 3 years’ experience in at least two Technology domain areas such as (enterprise architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware) and Software Asset Management in a multi-tier environment.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
• Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
• Prior working experience in a formal enterprise architecture framework.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects. 
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Enterprise Architecture.