KCB Group Kenya

Technical Architect at KCB Bank Kenya

00100, Nairobi Kenya
April 20, 2024
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Job Description

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 

Academic & Professional 

Education   

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

Professional Qualifications 

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

Experience 

Total Minimum No of Years Technical Experience Required

  •  5 years

Detail  Minimum No of Years 

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