KCB Group Solution Architect Jobs in Kenya

KCB Group Solution Architect Jobs in Kenya

Job Summary

Reporting to the Senior Manager Solutions Architecture, the job holder will be responsible for developing solution designs and specifications, reviews, recommendations and analysis of their impact on the overall business goals and outcomes.

Minimum Qualification: Bachelor

Experience Level: Mid level

Experience Length: 5 years

Job Description/ Requirements

The Position

Reporting to the Senior Manager Solutions Architecture, the job holder will be responsible for developing solution designs and specifications, reviews, 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.

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 business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap 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 and business requirements are adhered to.

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

Translates 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.

The Person

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

Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study from a recognized university.

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Information Technology, with at least 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, microservices and Service Oriented Architecture) and 3 years’ experience working in a formal enterprise architecture framework.

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization.

Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid.

Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements

Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.

Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.

The above position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate.

How to Apply

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, 28th October 2022.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

For more information and job application details, see: KCB Group Solution Architect Jobs in Kenya

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