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
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
a. Academic & Professional
Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type4 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
b. Experience
Total Minimum No of Years Technical Experience Required
5
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type5
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
Kenya