Technical Architect at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Reference No TA/12/MJIK

Description

• 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.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study from a recognized university.

More Details on Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Information Technology with experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services, and SOA). At least 3 years’ experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization, and leading formal enterprise architecture framework