Senior Manager Enterprise Business Solutions at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

The Senior Manager Enterprise Business Solutions will ensure timely and quality delivery of enterprise solutions to internal and external customers while leveraging on data. The role holder will oversee data analysis and modelling on large datasets at enterprise-scale, visualization, and analytics for the organization to meet business demands on strategic data insights and reporting. A critical thinker with experience on customer behaviour and data engineering services in the bank and in the future are the hallmarks of this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage the implementation enterprise-wide systems that meets business intelligence, analytics, and reporting demands of the organization.
• Leads projects involving major enhancements or upgrades of enterprise-scale data platforms and related systems including overseeing the development of the technical specifications and application design criteria based on functional and non-functional requirements to meet the business needs.
• Research and work with Strategy and Architecture teams to implement new technologies that will facilitate maximization of data as asset for strategic business transformation.
• Lead a team of highly skilled engineers to provide 3rd level support on enterprise applications.
• Define futureproof enterprise data extraction and transformation technologies and tools that guarantee near real-time access to internal and external customers.
• Define a reports model that ensures that the delivered solutions meet the business SLAs consistently.
• Ensure work produced by the team is aligned with other Enterprise, Application and data architects, providing holistic enterprise solutions.
• Manage the team’s performance and nurture skills that advance the IT strategy and establish a sustainable practice.
• Research, evaluate and recommend new products and technologies; perform proof of concept to determine business case and planning criteria for new investments.
• Review organization data capabilities, architectures and and lay foundations for enterprise -wide data analytics, business intelligence and data science capabilities.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer related field from a recognized university.
• Professional qualifications in ITIL Design or Data Analytics or SAP BI or Oracle Database Management.
• 5 years’ experience in a similar role with at least 3 years in IT Projects & Agile Software Development.
• Experience in IT banking systems, operations, and support.
• Experience in data engineering & business intelligence.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Grafana.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.

The above position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.