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Enterprise Architecture Department - Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

Finance

NAIROBI  

Published On: 14th, August 2023

Closes on: 25th, August 2023

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Economist, Project Management/planning

Job Description


Responsibilities:

    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 

Requirements:

    MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 

    Academic & Professional 
    Education     

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

    Professional Qualifications 

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

    Experience 

    • 7 years Total Minimum Technical Experience Required

    Detail     Minimum No of Years

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

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Josephine Mbithe

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