Enterprise Architecture Department - Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya
Published On:
14th, August 2023
Closes on:
25th, August 2023
Job closed
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