Technology Solutions Architect at Kenya Airways

Brief Description

Job Purpose Statement: The Solution Architect will be responsible for strategic design and planning of solutions within the KQ technology environment. She/he will be the leader of the process that develops solutions to fit an enterprise architecture in terms of a business, information, and technical standpoint. Technology Solutions Delivery team has faced challenges in ensuring suitable designs. It is therefore critical to fill this role to ensure delivery of key business enabling projects that cut across the whole Kenya Airways company.

Detailed Description

• Responsible for monitoring solution development / deployment process and keeping stakeholders updated and informed on the progress.
• Providing recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions
• Performing solutions design, debug, and analysis
• Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions
• Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
• Regularly communicating new features and benefits to partners, customers, and other stakeholders
• Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle
• Developing proof-of-conceptprojects to validate your proposed solutions.
• Reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members.
• Review the long-term use of product and implement scalability and adaptability into the solution for the future.

Job Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• Relevant certifications.
• TOGAF certification is an added advantage
• A minimum of 4 years Information Technology experience 2 of which, must be in design or software development

Additional Details

• Data Warehouse
• Infrastructure and engineering design
• System security measures
• Business analysis
• Database management
• Cloud development
• Web platforms
• Hardware and software management
• Network Administration
• Project and product management