Technical Architect
The role holder develops technology blueprints (Systems, networks, hardware, and enterprise platforms) and related documentation for IT Systems in use by or to be procured by the Bank in line with Bank policy, system architecture best practice, standards, and methods.
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, makes 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 updated 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.
The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field.
- Professional Qualifications: TOGAF / MCSE / MCITP /CCNA/ CISA/ Cloud Architect certifications OCP, LINUX / UNIX/ Databases
- 5 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Technology architecture, application architecture, security architecture, Integration, micro services and SOA)
- 3 years of experience in multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization.
- 3 years of experience in leading formal enterprise architecture framework
- 4 years of experience and Knowledge of Hardware systems
- 4 years Knowledge of WAN & LAN design, implementation, and monitoring
- 4 years of experience in Customer Service
- 3 years of experience & excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid).
- 3 years of experience & excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
- 3 years of experience & Knowledge of application of the organization products, services, and policy.
- 3 years of experience and Knowledge of relevant industry.
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 3rd May 2024
Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.