Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture at KCB Bank Kenya

Job Description

Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture at KCB Bank Kenya

The holder of the role will be responsible for providing strategic direction, designing enterprise-level technology solutions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives in a rapidly evolving financial services landscape. This role involves strategic planning, leadership, and execution of initiatives aimed at improving the bank’s Technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and sustain a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy aligned with the business objectives of the Bank. Ensure that technology decisions support long-term goals and growth, aligning the architecture strategy with the bank’s business goals, objectives, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess the bank’s current technology capabilities, including infrastructure, platforms, tools, and technology practices and define a technology capabilities roadmap and blueprint that aligns with the bank’s long-term strategic goals and digital transformation agenda.
• Oversee the design and implementation of complex technology solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and align with architectural standards.
• In collaboration with cross-functional teams, develop strategies and roadmaps for systematically addressing technical debt, including legacy systems & outdated technologies, while ensuring alignment with business objectives and risk management priorities.
• Evaluate existing applications and software platforms to identify opportunities for modernization, including migration to cloud-native architectures, adoption of microservices, and containerization.
• Define architectural blueprints and transformation plans for modernizing legacy applications, improving scalability, performance, and agility while minimizing disruptions to business operations.
• Lead the implementation of modernization initiatives, overseeing development teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices, standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Establish processes and criteria for evaluating and prioritizing application investments, ensuring that resources are allocated to initiatives that deliver the most value to the business.
• Collaborate with Technology leadership and stakeholders to prioritize investments, allocate resources, and execute initiatives aimed at developing and strengthening technology capabilities.
• Champion the adoption of new technologies, methodologies, and best practices that drive operational excellence, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth.

The Person

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

• University Degree in Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study.
• Professional qualifications such as TOGAF will be added advantage.
• 10 years progressive experience in Information Technology.
• 7 years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture with expertise in multiple domains such as application, data, security, and infrastructure architecture.
• 5 years’ experience in solution architecture, including experience with cloud technologies, data architectures, application architectures, and integration patterns.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid) & DevOps.
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Enterprise Architecture.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
• Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications on individual components and projects.

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

To be considered your application must be received by Friday 5^th April 2024.

Qualified candidates with a disability are encouraged to apply.

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Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture at KCB Bank Kenya