Solution Architect at Family Bank Ltd

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for supporting in developing IT information models and related documentation for  technology Systems in use by or to be procured by the Bank in line with Bank policies, processes and relevant  guidelines.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide regular progress reports to the Manager - Enterprise Architecture, Governance and Change. 
• Develop and foster internal and external stakeholder communications. 
• Influence the stakeholders to adopt standard working frameworks and collaboration with IT during  innovation identification and appraisal of Projects. 
• Advice on mechanism and reuse of built solutions for ease of Budget planning & control over IT Strategy  and Architecture. 
• Analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical solutions. 
• Lead the enterprise architecture governance and compliance processes to ensure all areas of the  organization are architecting and implementing solutions that adhere to the defined guiding principles and  best practices. 
• Provide technical guidance to development teams during project execution. 
• Lead architectural reviews to ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Deliver an enterprise architecture framework that drives technology, solutions development standards and  provide common approaches for integration across enterprise applications, processes, and data leading to  architecture artifacts, frameworks and patterns to be used as references by the development teams across  the organization. 
• Design solutions that integrate with existing systems and infrastructure. 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical  recommendations 
• Act as the technical liaison between business teams, development teams, and external vendors. 
• Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on enterprise  architecture. 
• Develop guidelines and standards that will direct and inform how Information Technology investments will  be evaluated for compliance with the Bank’s Enterprise Architecture. 
• Align and rationalize technology decisions and investments and develop a catalogue of approved  technologies for the Bank. 
• Provide and maintain a repository for all EA artefacts including procedures, principles, standards and tools  and continuously guide on their consumption and measure adoption. 
• Provide guidance for the IT Change Management through standardized methods and procedures for  efficient and prompt handling of all changes to control IT environments leading to reduced impact and  incidents upon service and alignment/adherence to Enterprise Architecture. 
• Performing analysis and evaluating internal and external business drivers that may influence change in the  enterprise target architecture. 
• 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 computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of  study. 
• Professional qualifications such as TOGAF, ITIL Foundation 
• 8 years’ progressive experience in Information Technology. 
• At least 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as enterprise architecture, application  architecture, application development, middleware and SOA in a multi-tier environment. 
• At least 5 years’ experience with Operating systems (Windows, AIX, LINUX). 
• At least 3 years’ experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework. 

Key Competencies and Attributes: 

• 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. 
• Know all components of holistic enterprise architecture. 
• Familiar with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories 
• 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.