Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Governance and Change Management at Family Bank Ltd

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee adherence to the architecture strategy, principles and framework throughout IT
• Defining the technology solution and environment roadmaps to ensure capacity and scalability, as demand and usage evolve within the business. This will be obtained through having visibility and understanding of the entire technology landscape
• Defining the technology solution and environment roadmaps to ensure capacity and scalability, as demand and usage evolve within the business. This will be obtained through having visibility and understanding of the entire technology landscape
• Working with Key Technology Partners to ensure the implementation of the Roadmaps and Standards
• Identifying, assessing and communicating risks related to the Roadmap
• Ensuring that systems are architected to be secure and resilient through the effective application of security and Business Continuity principles
• Leading the definition and validation of architecture principles and standards
• Defining a full Technical Architectural Roadmap for communicating architecture and IT standards to all stakeholders and ensure standards are published, updated and adhered to.
• Liaising with key IT partners to quantify and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits and opportunities of IT solutions from an Architecture perspective
• Keeping up to date of Architecture, IT Strategy and technology innovation best practices and trends
• Managing and maintaining the service catalogue
• Evaluating, designing, suctioning and trouble-shooting IT across all IT functions and working at the point of need.
• Follow-up on and ensure closure of all Audit, risk and compliance issues to ensure ICT Policies and Data Protection is adhered to.
• Code review of Developed solutions
• Ensure escrow setup for code is activated and discipline for code store is enforced.
• Ensuring all Changes go through proper testing and Quality assurance is properly done before the requests are presented in CAB.
• Setup a functional Change Approval Board and track all changes in the bank
• Any other official duty that may be allocated by management from time to time.

The Person:

The ideal candidate must possess the following:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software engineering, Computer Science, MIS Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a dynamic IT environment, of which 7 years must have been in enterprise architecture domain – specific focus on digital experience working on micro services, API, cloud native architecture, containers, Security while leading a team.
• Hands on experience in;
• System Support management
• IT Service management
• IT Infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of project management principles

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Exercise quality control and progress control to ensure that good standards of discipline and conduct are maintained and preparing periodic performance appraisals
• Influence stakeholders to adopt standard working frameworks and collaboration with IT and Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts during innovation identification and appraisal of Projects
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing, dealing with technical issues in a nontechnical manner.
• Work participatively on projects with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Analyse and choose between options where the solution is not always obvious.
• Capacity to influence decisions at senior management levels
• Analyse information from range of sources and develop effective solutions/recommendations.
• Keep abreast of technical developments and trends, bring these into day-to-day work when feasible and build them into new project developments.
• Proficient in latest technology for IT systems and management.
• Aim to get things done well and set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance.