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, makes 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.

The Person

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

Professional Qualifications:

• Certifications in TOGAF, MCSE, MCITP, CCNA, CISA, Cloud Architect, OCP, LINUX/UNIX, Databases.

Relevant Experience:

• 7 years of overall experience with specific experience in:
  • 5 years in at least two IT disciplines: Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, microservices, and SOA.
  • 3 years in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing, and containerization.
  • 3 years in leading formal enterprise architecture frameworks.
  • 4 years of experience and knowledge of Hardware systems.
  • 4 years knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation, and monitoring.
  • 4 years of experience in Customer Service.
  • 3 years of experience and excellent understanding of software delivery processes (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e., waterfall, agile, hybrid).
  • 3 years of experience and excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to break down complex items into actionable elements.
  • 3 years of experience and knowledge of the application of the organization's products, services, and policies.
  • 3 years of experience and knowledge of the relevant industry.