Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits and opportunities of IT solutions. Understand the bigger picture and assess all smaller technical components and solutions as a coherent part of the whole infrastructure.
• Documentation of business requirements and processes for business initiatives and projects.
• Build a holistic view of the Bank’s strategy, processes, information and IT assets and ensuring the business and IT requirements are aligned.
• Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Designs complex systems in the Bank when required at the component level, make strategic technology choices, and directly supervise the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components.
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects.
• Develop and maintain the Bank’s technology service catalogue with continuous assessment of applications fitness to fulfill their purpose to the Enterprise.
• Lead in technology capacity management assessment and provide guidance on how best to close the identified gaps.
• Support in developing the framework for IT asset management while providing guidance on how best to close the identified gaps.
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning, and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables and mapping to infrastructure needs.
• Lead in proactive management and reduction of technical debt (e.g. systems/components, tool proliferation, aging technologies) across all the technology domains.
• Stay updated on the latest trends/ technologies for cloud enablement and Platform as a Service and evaluate the platform capabilities vis -à-vis the trends; plan the roadmaps to incorporate the required functionality into the Bank infrastructure.
• Provides knowledge leadership in relevant research areas, technology tools & standards and architectural governance. 
• Provides guidance to project teams regarding guiding principles, system and application design, standards, best practices, and system performance and availability.
• Support / participate in acquisition of large projects by providing technical input and guidance on aspects of technology.

The Person 

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.
• Professional qualifications in the following list will be added advantage: TOGAF / MCSE / MCITP /CCNA/ CISA/ Cloud Architect certifications, OCP, LINUX / UNIX/ Databases.
• 7 years Technical experience.
• 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services and SOA).
• Experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization.
• Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework.
• Knowledge of Hardware systems.
• Knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation, and monitoring.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid).
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
• Knowledge of application of the organization products, services and policy.