Enterprise Domain Architect - Integrations & Middleware at KCB Bank Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integration strategy for the bank, aligning it with the overall enterprise architecture goals and business objectives. This includes defining standards, best practices, and guidelines for integrating systems, applications, and data across the organization.
• Design end-to-end integration solutions and middleware architectures to support the bank's business processes and IT systems. This involves collaborating with business stakeholders, technology teams, and third-party vendors to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs & specifications.
• Lead the integration efforts for new systems, applications, and services into the bank's Technology landscape. This includes defining integration patterns, protocols, and APIs, as well as defining data mapping, transformation, and routing mechanisms across the tech stack to facilitate seamless data exchange.
• Ensure fit for purpose middleware solutions that meet performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, architects, and other stakeholders involved in integration projects. Foster collaboration and communication between cross-functional teams to drive alignment and consensus on integration solutions.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with integration projects, including security vulnerabilities, data privacy concerns, and regulatory compliance issues. Ensure that integration solutions adhere to industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal Bank policies.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in integration practices, tools, and technologies. Address the accrued technical debt in the Integrations & Middleware space.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in integration and middleware architecture to enhance the bank's competitive advantage.
• Contribute to the bank's digital transformation initiatives by architecting future ready integration solutions that enable the actualization of the Business strategy.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for integration and middleware architectures.\

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. 
• A Master’s Degree in Technology / Business will be an added Advantage.
• Professional qualifications in AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect and Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS or Azure or GCPis desired.
• 7 years In-depth knowledge of integration patterns, messaging protocols, and middleware technologies.

Minimum of 5 years experience Required in:

• Expertise in architecting solutions that span on-premises and cloud environments.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid) & DevOps
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture
• Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories
• 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