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 up dated 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 

Academic & Professional 

Education   

•  Bachelors Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology  RQ  

Professional Qualifications 

• TOGAF / MCSE / MCITP /CCNA/ CISA/ Cloud Architect certifications
• OCP, LINUX / UNIX/ Databases  AA  

Experience 

Total Minimum No of Years Technical Experience Required

•  5 years

Detail  Minimum No of Years 

• Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services and SOA).5 RQ  
• Experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization. 3  ES  
• Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework  3 ES  
• Knowledge of IT Banking Systems 
• Implementation & Capabilities 3  DE  
• Knowledge of Hardware systems  4  ES  
• Knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation and monitoring  4  ES  
• Project Management Skills  3 DE  
• Customer Service Skills     3  ES  
• Knowledge of Network Security 
• Implementation and Design  3 DE  
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid)  3 ES
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements   3 ES
• Knowledge of application of the organization products, services and policy 3  ES  
• Knowledge of relevant industry  3  ES