JOB PURPOSE
Reporting to Senior Manager Solutions Architecture, the job holder will be responsible for developing solution designs specifications, reviews of solution designs and completed implementations, recommendations and analysis of their impact on the overall business goals and outcomes. The holder of this position leverages their profound knowledge of available technologies to recommend the best solution according to the documented requirements and existing environment. The key deliverable of this role is to provide a set of technological solutions and the strategy of their implementation while minimizing technical debt.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Analyzing enterprise specifics - Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
- Solution Design – End-to-end solution & architecture design for assigned projects and initiatives and ensuring solution design alignment between stakeholders before implementation.
- Analyzing and documenting requirements - Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Setting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the business subject matter experts in the development of clear roadmaps of business solutions.
- Analyzing the technology environment - Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
- Controlling solution development - Participate in solution developments to ensure technical (as documented in solution designs) and business requirements are adhered to. Any valid deviations should be documented exceptions for tracking and remediation of technical debt.
- Supporting project management- Provide architectural oversight of projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
- Leverage’s business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business and information architecture efforts
- Translate strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and logical models.
- Build and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies, and business development documents
- Ability to independently facilitate discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and manage the flow of conversation while driving to meet business objectives.
- Ability to independently manage conflict among diverse cross portfolio stakeholders related to competing interests and requirements. Able to help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.
- Develop and guide adoption of design patterns with a view of standardizing solution components built for the enterprise
- Participate, guide and support quality assurance team in planning and execution of performance testing and other non-functional tests
- Lead in all round capacity management for current and future solutions
Academic & Professional
Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study RQ Professional Qualifications CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation, Design Thinking and Innovation (One or more certification) AA Project Management/ Scrum Certifications PRINCE II/PMP/MSP/SMC/CSM/PMI-ACPAA
Experience
Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type 7+ years progressive experience in Information Technology 7 RQ Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, microservices and Service Oriented Architecture) 5 RQ Prior working experience with a formal enterprise architecture framework 3 RQ Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization. 3 ES Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid) 3 ES Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture 4 ESSkills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- At least 7 years of progressive experience in Information Technology
- At least 5 years of experience in two or more IT disciplines, such as business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, microservices, or Service-Oriented Architecture
- At least 3 years of experience working with a formal enterprise architecture framework
- Exposure to multiple diverse technologies, cloud computing, and containerization
- Understanding of software delivery processes, DevOps, and waterfall, agile, or hybrid methodologies
- Knowledge of holistic enterprise architecture components
- One or more of CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation, or Design Thinking and Innovation certifications
- One or more of PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, SMC, CSM, or PMI-ACP certifications
What We Do
KCB Group, is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size. The Group's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. In 2015, KCB Group opened a representative office in Ethiopia, expanding the growth of the organization. The Bank is over 124 years old having started in Mombasa in 1896. KCB Group has over 354 branches, 26,394 Agents/POS Merchants and 1,103 ATMs. The bank also offers Mobile Banking though the KCB App, Internet Banking and Diaspora Banking Services platform that can be accessed 24/7 basis. The Bank services over 26.8 million customers across the region. KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa, with an estimated asset base of approximately Ksh. 1.02 trillion as at the of end H1 2021.
