Career Opportunities at KCB Group Plc
Are you ready to grow your career with one of East Africa’s leading financial institutions? KCB Group Plc is seeking highly driven, innovative, and results-oriented professionals to join its dynamic teams across various functions. If you are passionate about excellence, digital transformation, financial services, and delivering value to customers, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Below are the available positions and their respective job descriptions:
1. Transport Manager
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
The Transport Manager is responsible for managing the company-owned fleet, supervising transport staff, and liaising with outsourced transport service providers to deliver cost-effective transport solutions. The role ensures operational efficiency, compliance, safety standards adherence, and optimal fleet utilization. The position also oversees maintenance scheduling, cost control, vendor performance management, and reporting on transport operations to ensure service reliability and sustainability.
2. Digital Support Specialist – Switching & Payments
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
The Digital Support Specialist – Switching & Payments provides leadership in the support and continuous improvement of KCB Group digital channels. The role drives system integrations, upgrades, and enhancements while collaborating with external technology partners and internal cross-functional teams. The position ensures platform resilience, regulatory compliance, optimal performance, and service excellence within switching and payments infrastructure. It also supports incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous system optimization.
3. Product Configuration Specialist
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Channels, the Product Configuration Specialist is responsible for systems administration to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of digital platforms. The role ensures automation is implemented to detect, handle, and mitigate system failures. The position works closely with stakeholders to define requirements, document and sign off change requests, and plan for platform upgrades and enhancements. It supports the development of new products, maintenance of existing systems, and drives innovation across payments and lending platforms in collaboration with technology teams and third-party vendors.
4. Senior Manager, Data Engineer
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
The Senior Manager, Data Engineer leads and coordinates data support teams to ensure data availability, reliability, and security. The role oversees the development, organization, storage, and analysis of data systems while maintaining strict confidentiality and compliance standards. The position drives the implementation of efficient data architecture solutions and ensures data systems align with business objectives, operational resilience, and regulatory requirements.
5. Digital Support Specialist
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
The Digital Support Specialist provides leadership in supporting and continuously improving KCB Group digital channels. The role focuses on system integrations, upgrades, enhancements, and collaboration with technology partners and internal stakeholders to ensure seamless digital operations. The position ensures service reliability, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and optimal customer experience across digital banking platforms.
6. Enterprise Solution Engineer
Deadline: 13th February 2026
Job Description:
The Enterprise Solution Engineer ensures timely and high-quality delivery of enterprise solutions. The role is responsible for designing technically complex, multi-component solutions in collaboration with Enterprise and Solution Architects. It evaluates multiple design options to meet complex business requirements and constraints while leading project teams to ensure technical success. The position influences solution delivery, ensures architectural alignment, and supports business transformation initiatives.
7. Relationship Manager – Mandera Branch
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Branch Manager, this role manages, grows, and maintains the branch SME Banking/Business Banking and Personal Banking portfolio. The Relationship Manager is responsible for customer acquisition, portfolio quality, revenue growth, relationship management, and cross-selling bank products. The position ensures compliance with credit policies, effective risk management, and high customer satisfaction levels.
8. Senior Manager, Digital Payments
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
The Senior Manager, Digital Payments drives the adoption of innovative payment solutions and manages strategic partnerships. The role ensures regulatory compliance, optimizes digital payment platforms, and delivers seamless and secure customer experiences across digital channels. It oversees digital payment products including wallets, wealth, investments, insurance, and related services, ensuring growth, operational efficiency, and market competitiveness.
9. Relationship Manager – Sahl Banking (Kipande House Branch)
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Branch Manager, the Relationship Manager – Sahl Banking is responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with Islamic Banking customers across Retail and Corporate segments. The role focuses on growing business product uptake and utilization, managing portfolio performance, enhancing customer engagement, and ensuring Shariah-compliant service delivery aligned with business objectives.
10. Head – Group Planning & Budgeting
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Group Finance Director, the Head – Group Planning & Budgeting drives the Group’s planning and budgeting process. The role translates strategic goals into financial performance targets across annual, medium-term, and long-term horizons. It oversees the planning calendar, coordinates with Group Strategy, ensures timely senior management and Board approvals, cascades budgets across entities, and aligns financial targets with approved strategic objectives.
11. Senior Manager, Strategy
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Executive Head of Strategy & Investor Relations, the Senior Manager, Strategy supports the development and execution of Group strategy. The role facilitates strategic planning across subsidiaries and business units, translates strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, and drives execution governance through structured performance tracking. It provides advisory support, challenges initiative alignment, and delivers insights to enhance performance and transformation across the Group.
12. Product Manager – Wealth and Investments
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
The Product Manager – Wealth and Investments manages the full product lifecycle, including market analysis, strategy development, product design, launch, and ongoing maintenance. The role focuses on wealth and investment solutions, ensuring alignment with client needs, financial risk analysis, performance monitoring, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver competitive and customer-focused investment products.
13. Legal Counsel – Risk & Compliance
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Principal Legal Counsel, Risk & Compliance, this role implements, maintains, and monitors legal risk and compliance requirements for assigned portfolios. The position ensures adherence to applicable laws and regulations, supports governance frameworks, mitigates legal risks, and provides advisory support to business units to safeguard the institution’s legal standing.
14. Product Manager – Digital Payments
Deadline: 20th February 2026
Job Description:
Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, Digital Payments, this role drives usage of the Bank’s digital payment services including C2B, B2C, Billers, and other solutions. The position manages payment partners, develops strategies to enhance digital payment offerings, attracts and retains customers, and drives revenue growth. The role requires a customer-centric approach and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative digital financial solutions.
