Equity Bank Kenya is pleased to invite qualified professionals to apply for a diverse array of roles across credit, risk, data science, cyber-security, IT engineering, business planning and merchant services. These vacancies offer the opportunity to contribute to a leading financial institution’s next phase of growth, operating within a dynamic Kenyan market. Interested candidates are encouraged to review the detailed job descriptions for each role below and apply through the official careers portal.
Vacancy Listings
1. Relationship Manager – Credit (Nyanza Region)
Location: Kenya (Nyanza Region)
Closing Date: Nov 10, 2025
Role Overview:
The Relationship Manager – Credit will be responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of credit customers in the Nyanza region. This role involves assessing client creditworthiness, structuring credit facilities, monitoring portfolio performance and ensuring adherence to the bank’s credit policies. The role holder will liaise with branch staff, business bankers and risk teams to deliver timely and profitable credit solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Originate and process credit applications for commercial and retail clients in the region
- Conduct credit risk assessments, financial analysis and prepare credit proposals
- Monitor portfolio performance and identify early signs of deterioration
- Collaborate with relationship banking, product and risk teams to ensure alignment with risk appetite
- Provide support to clients on credit facility utilisation, compliance, repayments and renewals
- Maintain strong client relationships and represent the bank professionally in the region
2. Senior Manager, Credit Monitoring
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 7, 2025
Role Overview:
The Senior Manager, Credit Monitoring will oversee the bank’s credit monitoring function, ensuring early detection of credit risks, non-performing loans (NPLs) and ensuring appropriate remedial action is taken. Reporting to senior leadership, the role will drive effective monitoring frameworks, governance and portfolio oversight for the credit portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement credit monitoring frameworks, including KPIs and early warning indicators
- Monitor credit portfolios across products, geographies and business units for signs of deterioration
- Lead investigations into delinquent exposures and work with recovery and workout teams to address risk
- Provide regular reporting to the Credit Committee and senior management on portfolio status and trends
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies pertaining to credit monitoring
- Coach and mentor monitoring analysts, and coordinate cross-functional teams to mitigate emerging credit risk
3. Senior Manager, Credit Governance
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 7, 2025
Role Overview:
This senior leadership role is responsible for overseeing the credit governance architecture of the bank. The Senior Manager, Credit Governance ensures that credit risk frameworks, policies, controls and governance mechanisms are robust, consistent and aligned with the bank’s risk appetite and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, review and maintain the credit risk governance framework, including policy updates, credit mandate mappings and committee charters
- Ensure credit decisions and underwriting adhere to approved frameworks and delegated authorities
- Lead credit governance committees, provide secretarial support and ensure timely escalation of breaches
- Perform credit quality reviews, challenge underwriting decisions and identify control gaps
- Partner with internal audit, risk management and compliance to embed governance and review findings
- Monitor industry/regulatory developments in credit risk and ensure the bank’s frameworks remain current
4. Developer – Reconciliations & Settlements
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 7, 2025
Role Overview:
The Developer – Reconciliations & Settlements will design, develop and maintain robust, scalable reconciliation and settlement systems across the bank’s platforms. The role will collaborate with operations, technology and business stakeholders to automate workflow, improve accuracy, and support settlements across channels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop software solutions for reconciliation and settlement processes, including exception handling and automation
- Integrate with internal systems (core banking, payments, clearing) and external systems (inter-bank, switch networks)
- Establish and maintain layered monitoring, dashboards and alerts for reconciliation workflows
- Collaborate with operations teams to understand business rules, design solutions and support system roll-outs
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure solutions are compliant, secure and aligned with the bank’s IT standards
5. Data Scientist – Assistant Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 6, 2025
Role Overview:
The Data Scientist – Assistant Manager will support the development and deployment of data science and advanced analytics solutions that drive business insights and decisions. The successful candidate will work with large, structured and unstructured datasets to build predictive models, perform statistical analysis and deliver actionable recommendations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collect, clean and prepare datasets from multiple sources for model development
- Develop predictive models, machine learning algorithms and statistical analyses aligned to business objectives
- Work with stakeholders to understand business problems, translate them into analytical solutions and deliver insights
- Validate model performance, monitor production models and calibrate as required
- Create dashboards, visualisations and reports to communicate findings to business users
- Stay abreast of industry trends in data science, AI and analytics best practices
6. SRE Engineer – Assistant Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 6, 2025
Role Overview:
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Assistant Manager will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance and scalability of the bank’s digital and infrastructure platforms. The role will work at the intersection of software engineering and operations, implementing practices that keep systems resilient, automated and efficient.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and monitor infrastructure for availability, latency, performance and capacity
- Automate deployment, monitoring, logging, alerting and recovery systems across environments
- Collaborate with development teams for incident management and root-cause analysis
- Participate in platform architecture reviews to ensure operational readiness and scalability
- Define SRE metrics and drive continuous improvement in system reliability and operational efficiency
- Document systems, standard operating procedures and participate in disaster recovery / business continuity planning
7. Data Scientist – Senior Officer
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Nov 1, 2025
Role Overview:
The Data Scientist – Senior Officer will leverage data mining, statistical techniques and analytics to support the bank’s strategic initiatives. The role requires working with cross-functional teams to generate insight, support decision-making and deliver value through advanced analytics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Extract, manipulate and analyse large data sets from multiple sources
- Conduct research, segmentation, anomaly detection and pattern discovery to inform business strategies
- Build dashboards, visualisations and reports that enable business stakeholders to act on insights
- Support model deployment, monitoring and maintenance in collaboration with analytics and IT teams
- Provide training and support to business units on analytics tools and statistical methods
8. Cyber Security Technical Programs Analyst
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 31, 2025
Role Overview:
The Cyber Security Technical Programs Analyst will play a critical role in aligning security initiatives with business objectives, managing security-related programs and coordinating technical projects that strengthen the bank’s cybersecurity posture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage security programs including implementation of controls, awareness initiatives, vulnerability management and incident response
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of security projects and initiatives
- Track and report on security metrics, project status and program risks
- Work with Threat Intelligence, SOC, and IT teams to prioritise security improvements
- Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, frameworks and best practices in cyber security
9. Head – Capacity and Demand Management
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 30, 2025
Role Overview:
The Head – Capacity and Demand Management will develop and govern the enterprise-wide framework for capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation. The role aligns with frameworks such as ITIL v4, COBIT 2019 and SAFe.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish the bank-wide capacity and demand management strategy, policies and processes
- Forecast demand for IT services, infrastructure and resources; align capacity accordingly
- Monitor KPIs, utilisation, planning accuracy and cost efficiency
- Engage with business stakeholders to prioritise demand and balance supply capacity
- Facilitate continuous improvement, and governance of capacity-related controls and reporting
10. Business Planning Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 30, 2025
Role Overview:
The Business Planning Manager will support the Group Head, Enterprise Digital Transformation and the Group Head, Internal Business Functions in developing, coordinating and executing strategic and operational business plans across enabler systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business planning, budget development, forecasting and performance tracking across business units
- Work with senior leadership to translate strategy into actionable plans, deliverables and KPIs
- Develop dashboards, reports and analytics to monitor plan execution and performance variance
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders in execution of plans and alignment to organisational goals
- Drive strategic workshops, scenario planning and provide insights to support business decisions
11. Head – DR Orchestration & Testing
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 30, 2025
Role Overview:
The Head – Disaster Recovery (DR) Orchestration & Testing will oversee enterprise-wide DR planning, orchestration and testing across data centres, cloud, networks, applications, data platforms and third-party services. This senior role ensures the resilience and continuity of critical bank operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain enterprise DR strategy, playbooks and governance mechanisms
- Lead planning and execution of DR tests, failover-recovery exercises and readiness assessments
- Coordinate infrastructure, application and cloud teams to validate DR capabilities and rectify gaps
- Monitor DR metrics, test outcomes, remedial actions and report to senior leadership
- Ensure alignment to business continuity standards, regulatory requirements and industry best practice
12. CX Business Planning Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 29, 2025
Role Overview:
The Customer Experience (CX) Business Planning Manager will support the Group Director of Customer Experience in implementing the Group’s CX strategy. The role involves business planning, performance monitoring and driving initiatives that enhance customer journeys across channels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate CX strategy into business plans, initiatives and performance measures
- Conduct voice-of-customer analysis, journey mapping and identify opportunities for enhancement
- Develop dashboards and reports to track CX performance, NPS, retention and service metrics
- Coordinate cross-functional teams in rollout of CX initiatives and monitor their impact
- Provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership based on analytics and customer feedback
13. Credit MIS, Portfolio Management & Reporting Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 27, 2025
Role Overview:
The Credit MIS, Portfolio Management & Reporting Manager will oversee credit portfolios across all countries in which the bank operates, ensuring adherence to objectives, reporting standards and analytical insights. The role is central to portfolio management, MIS reporting and strategic oversight of credit exposure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and maintenance of credit MIS systems, dashboards and portfolio performance reports
- Monitor portfolio metrics, credit trends, exposure, NPLs and risk concentrations across jurisdictions
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting to group credit committees, regulators and senior management
- Collaborate with country-risk and portfolio teams to support strategic decisions on credit portfolio management
- Provide analytical insights, model performance review and portfolio stress testing
14. EBKL – Merchant Services Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing Date: Oct 27, 2025
Role Overview:
The Merchant Services Manager will be based in the Head Office and report to the Head of Merchant Acquiring. The role will involve daily engagements with merchants, driving merchant acquisition, activation and retention, and supporting strategies for growth of merchant services offerings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage merchant relationships and ensure activation of solutions (e.g., POS, Mobile-merchant services)
- Develop and execute merchant onboarding, training and activation campaigns
- Monitor merchant service performance, usage, retention and churn
- Liaise with product, marketing and operations teams to grow merchant services portfolio
- Ensure compliance with the bank’s merchant policies and oversight of merchant tools and support
How to Apply
All interested and qualified candidates should apply through the official careers portal of Equity Bank Kenya at the time of application. Ensure that all applications include a detailed CV and cover letter outlining how your experience aligns with the specific role. Note the closing dates and apply early as roles may be filled before the deadline.
