Equity Bank is one of Africa’s leading financial institutions, widely recognized for its commitment to socio-economic transformation, financial inclusion, and customer-centered banking services. With operations across multiple markets, Equity Bank has continued to invest in digital innovation, talent development, and modern financial solutions aligned with global best practices. Its growth strategy is anchored in improving operational efficiency, expanding service delivery channels, and building a future-ready workforce that is capable of supporting rapid technological advancements and changing customer demands.
As part of its ongoing expansion and digital transformation agenda, Equity Bank is inviting suitably skilled and forward-thinking professionals to apply for a wide range of positions across different departments. These opportunities span technology, legal services, digital product management, fraud investigations, risk management, content production, internal audit, data security, and bancassurance relationship management. The roles require individuals who can thrive in a dynamic financial environment, demonstrate innovation, and contribute to the bank’s strategic goals.
This article provides a complete overview of all available roles, including detailed job descriptions, role expectations, and the nature of work associated with each position. It is tailored for job seekers looking for opportunities in a leading financial institution and is structured to ensure clarity, easy navigation, and high search-engine visibility. Equity Bank is hiring for the following positions across Kenya and select regional locations.
POSITION 1: Writer
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 9, 2025
Job Description
The Writer will support the bank’s communication and content development needs by producing high-quality written materials for both internal and external audiences. The role involves crafting clear, engaging, and informative content that aligns with the organization’s brand voice, communication objectives, and strategic priorities. This includes developing articles, reports, speeches, website content, marketing narratives, product descriptions, newsletters, and scripts for multimedia content.
The Writer will collaborate with various departments to gather information, understand communication requirements, and translate technical or complex financial concepts into simple, user-friendly language. The role requires consistency in tone, accuracy in content, and an ability to adjust writing style according to the target audience. Duties also include proofreading, editing drafts, fact-checking information, ensuring compliance with communication guidelines, and maintaining content quality across all publications.
The Writer will additionally support campaign messaging, product launches, internal communication briefs, and thought leadership content. A strong understanding of storytelling, banking terminologies, and digital content trends will help enhance the bank’s brand visibility across multiple platforms.
POSITION 2: Audiovisual Editor and Videographer
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 9, 2025
Job Description
The Audiovisual Editor and Videographer will lead the production of high-quality video and multimedia content that supports the bank’s communication, branding, and marketing initiatives. The role involves conceptualizing, filming, editing, and producing videos for campaigns, events, corporate announcements, documentaries, training materials, and social media engagement.
Key responsibilities include planning video shoots, ensuring proper lighting and sound, capturing high-quality footage, and applying creative editing techniques to deliver polished, compelling content. The role also requires managing video archives, ensuring brand consistency in visuals, selecting background music, and incorporating graphics, subtitles, and motion elements as needed.
The Editor and Videographer will collaborate with creative teams, writers, marketers, and corporate communications teams to ensure that visual content aligns with the bank’s messaging. The role requires attention to detail, technical proficiency with editing software, and the ability to work under tight deadlines to support continuous content production needs.
POSITION 3: Legal Manager – Technology
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 9, 2025
Job Description
The Legal Manager – Technology will provide legal guidance on matters involving digital systems, cybersecurity, data processing, technology contracts, and regulatory compliance relating to technology operations. The role is essential in ensuring that the bank’s technology initiatives adhere to local and international laws, licensing requirements, intellectual property protection, and risk mitigation frameworks.
Responsibilities include drafting and reviewing technology-related contracts, advising on software licensing, managing legal aspects of procurement agreements, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations, and assessing legal exposure arising from digital product development. The Legal Manager will guide management on emerging legal risks associated with cloud computing, fintech integrations, artificial intelligence, and cross-border data transfers.
The role also involves supporting incident response processes, advising on cybersecurity legal obligations, reviewing policies related to technology governance, and facilitating legal negotiations with vendors. The Legal Manager ensures that the bank’s digital transformation initiatives are legally sound and aligned with best practices in the financial sector.
POSITION 4: Assistant Manager, Credit Risk (Re-advertisement)
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 8, 2025
Job Description
The Assistant Manager, Credit Risk will support the credit risk function by monitoring portfolio performance, assessing borrower behavior, and ensuring adherence to credit risk management frameworks. The role focuses on early warning systems, credit exposure assessments, risk modelling support, and reporting of emerging risks across loan portfolios.
Key tasks include analyzing credit applications, reviewing risk ratings, monitoring non-performing loan trends, and preparing risk reports for senior management. The Assistant Manager will collaborate with lending teams, portfolio managers, and business units to ensure responsible lending practices and risk mitigation.
Additionally, the role involves participating in periodic portfolio reviews, validating credit risk data, supporting stress testing activities, and contributing to the development of risk monitoring dashboards. The position plays a critical role in minimizing financial losses and improving credit portfolio quality.
POSITION 5: Senior Manager – Mini-Apps
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The Senior Manager – Mini-Apps will lead the development, growth, and optimization of mini-app ecosystems within the bank’s digital platforms. The role is responsible for designing user-centered app features, collaborating with external developers, and enhancing customer experiences through intuitive, lightweight digital applications.
Responsibilities include overseeing end-to-end product development cycles, setting technical and functional specifications, managing integrations, and ensuring that mini-apps comply with regulatory and security requirements. The Senior Manager will evaluate performance analytics, identify improvement opportunities, and manage updates to optimize functionality.
Additionally, this role drives innovation by exploring partnerships, improving digital accessibility, and ensuring mini-app offerings align with the bank’s digital strategy.
POSITION 6: Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The IAM Engineer will manage and implement solutions that regulate secure user access across the bank’s digital infrastructure. The role involves configuring authentication systems, maintaining role-based access controls, monitoring identity governance, and supporting multi-factor authentication frameworks.
Responsibilities include provisioning user accounts, configuring identity tools, reviewing access logs, managing privileged accounts, and automating access requests. The IAM Engineer will also participate in audits, improve security controls, support compliance initiatives, and collaborate with cybersecurity teams to respond to access-related incidents.
POSITION 7: Data Protection Specialist
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The Data Protection Specialist ensures compliance with data privacy laws, internal policies, and regulatory obligations that govern the handling of personal data. The role involves monitoring data-processing activities, reviewing privacy impact assessments, and advising business units on responsible data-handling practices.
Responsibilities include developing privacy policies, ensuring that customer and employee data is protected, coordinating data-subject rights requests, and maintaining documentation related to data governance. The specialist will support awareness training, conduct compliance reviews, and guide technology teams on privacy-by-design principles.
POSITION 8: Senior Technical Product Manager
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The Senior Technical Product Manager leads the development and enhancement of digital banking products by aligning technical capabilities with customer needs and business objectives. The role involves defining product roadmaps, managing technical specifications, coordinating cross-functional teams, and overseeing product testing phases.
Key responsibilities include analyzing user requirements, reviewing system designs, assessing technical feasibility, and managing integrations with third-party platforms. The Product Manager will also evaluate performance metrics, conduct market analysis, and guide feature improvements to support superior customer experiences.
POSITION 9: IAM Analyst
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The IAM Analyst supports identity governance operations by monitoring access rights, enforcing user access policies, and evaluating access patterns within digital systems. The role includes reviewing access requests, troubleshooting IAM issues, preparing access audit reports, and maintaining documentation.
The IAM Analyst collaborates with IT security teams to ensure secure system access, supports governance automation efforts, and contributes to continuous improvement in access management processes.
POSITION 10: ERP Support Analyst
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 5, 2025
Job Description
The ERP Support Analyst provides functional and technical support for the bank’s enterprise resource planning system. The role involves troubleshooting issues, assisting users with system navigation, resolving application errors, and coordinating enhancements with vendors and developers.
responsibilities also include monitoring system performance, testing upgrades, mapping functional requirements, and ensuring data integrity across ERP modules such as finance, procurement, and human capital management.
POSITION 11: Manager, Fraud Investigations
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 4, 2025
Job Description
The Manager, Fraud Investigations oversees the detection, investigation, and resolution of fraud incidents affecting the bank’s operations, customers, and products. Responsibilities include reviewing suspicious activity reports, conducting internal investigations, gathering evidence, and preparing reports for senior management and regulatory bodies.
The role also involves designing controls to reduce fraud exposure, collaborating with law enforcement, implementing preventive measures, and supporting customer awareness initiatives.
POSITION 12: Audit Manager, Quality and Reporting
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 3, 2025
Job Description
The Audit Manager, Quality and Reporting ensures that internal audit processes meet professional standards and regulatory expectations. Responsibilities include reviewing audit documentation, maintaining quality assurance programs, developing audit performance metrics, and preparing consolidated audit reports for senior management.
The role also involves supporting audit planning, evaluating adherence to methodology, and recommending improvements to strengthen internal audit effectiveness.
POSITION 13: Business Process Auditor
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 3, 2025
Job Description
The Business Process Auditor evaluates operational workflows, internal controls, and business procedures to determine their effectiveness and alignment with policies. Responsibilities include conducting audits, analysing process inefficiencies, recommending control enhancements, and assessing compliance across departments.
The role supports risk management activities by identifying weaknesses and contributing to process optimisation strategies.
POSITION 14: Network Security Specialist
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 2, 2025
Job Description
The Network Security Specialist protects the bank’s network infrastructure by monitoring security events, implementing firewall policies, managing intrusion prevention systems, and responding to network threats. Responsibilities include analysing traffic patterns, detecting anomalies, managing secure network configurations, and conducting vulnerability assessments.
The role ensures that the bank’s network remains secure, resilient, and compliant with cybersecurity standards.
POSITION 15: Growth Campaign Manager – Finserve
Location: Kenya
Closing date: November 28, 2025
Job Description
The Growth Campaign Manager will oversee digital growth initiatives for Finserve by designing, executing, and optimizing marketing campaigns. Responsibilities include developing campaign strategies, managing digital advertising channels, analysing performance data, identifying growth opportunities, and enhancing customer acquisition.
The role involves close collaboration with marketing, product, and analytics teams to drive measurable growth outcomes.
POSITION 16: Regional Relationship Manager – Bancassurance (Nairobi East)
Location: Multiple locations
Closing date: November 26, 2025
Job Description
The Regional Relationship Manager oversees bancassurance business growth within assigned regions by managing agency relationships, supporting branch teams, and driving insurance product penetration. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, training branch staff, coordinating with insurance partners, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
The role also involves conducting market analysis, managing customer relationships, and supporting regional business development efforts.
POSITION 17: Middleware Support Engineer
Location: Kenya
Closing date: November 26, 2025
Job Description
The Middleware Support Engineer ensures reliable functioning of middleware applications that support integration between core banking systems and third-party platforms. Responsibilities include installing middleware components, monitoring integrations, troubleshooting application failures, and optimizing system performance.
The role supports upgrades, maintains documentation, and collaborates with system administrators and developers to ensure seamless data flows across systems.
POSITION 18: Head of Financial Risk (Re-advertisement)
Location: Kenya
Closing date: December 21, 2025
Job Description
The Head of Financial Risk leads the bank’s financial risk management strategy by overseeing market risk, liquidity risk, and balance sheet risk. Responsibilities include designing risk frameworks, monitoring financial exposures, guiding stress-testing processes, and advising senior management on risk mitigation actions.
The role involves analysing economic trends, reviewing risk models, and ensuring regulatory compliance in financial risk governance.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Candidates are encouraged to apply through the official Equity Bank recruitment platform. Since no application email has been provided, online applications can be made via the designated application link below.
