Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture at Central Bank of Kenya

Job Summary

• The role holder shapes the Bank’s technology vision, strategy, and enterprise architecture to ensure operational efficiency, security, and long-term alignment with business and national objectives. The Senior Manager leads the design of enterprise-wide IT architecture across business, application, data, technology, and security domains, guiding digital transformation initiatives and overseeing the evolution of IT assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Practice: Establish, implement, and maintain a robust Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and institutionalize standards, frameworks, policies, and guidelines across business, application, information, and technology domains.
• Strategic Leadership & Domain Integration: Provide strategic direction for business, application, information, technology, and security architecture (incorporating Enterprise Security Architecture and proactive risk/audit mitigation).
• Solution Design & Oversight: Direct end-to-end technology solutions acquisition and high-level solution designs for major projects, ensuring seamless integration with government agencies, financial institutions, and stakeholders.
• Audits, Risk & Compliance: Lead IT audits, enforce technological best practices, reduce operational, cybersecurity, and business continuity risks through prudent controls, and track KPIs via ISO 20000 frameworks.
• Talent & Performance Management: Manage, recruit, mentor, and coach a team of IT professionals (enterprise architects, solution architects, and consultants), ensuring an optimal organizational structure and high service management standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline (Master’s or post-graduate qualification is an added advantage).
• Mandatory professional certification: TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect, or an equivalent vendor-neutral architecture certification.
• Additional advantages: Certifications in cloud architecture, security architecture, IT governance, or project management.

Experience & Technical Competencies

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working with large organizations on a similar scope, including at least 3 years in a senior leadership position managing enterprise architects and solution architects.
• Demonstrated banking (or equivalent) enterprise architecture experience, with deep technical competency in solution design and high-level design creation for major projects.
• Extensive exposure across application and business architecture domains such as banking, telecommunications, or retail.