Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

Job Description

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Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, . The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation and all associate companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group’s capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group’s operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in management of subsidiaries.

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 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.

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study. Professional qualifications in the following list will be added advantage: TOGAF / MCSE / MCITP /CCNA/ CISA/ Cloud Architect certifications, OCP, LINUX / UNIX/ Databases. 7 years Technical experience. 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services and SOA). Experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization. Experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework. Knowledge of Hardware systems. Knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation, and monitoring. Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid). Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements. Knowledge of application of the organization products, services and policy.