At Coop Bank, we are an equal opportunity employer who promotes individual excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment. The “Kingdom Bank” is the place for those looking to new horizons.
We thrive on a successful universal banking model as well as ride on a unique Co-operative model providing innovative financial solutions for distinctive customer experience. Guided by our values, we seek to bolster our market position in the region, by leveraging on our wide range of innovative financial solutions with a focus on delivering excellent customer experience by a highly motivated and talented team.
About the role
Reporting to Head – Data Governance & Protection, The Data Architect will be responsible for planning and designing conceptual structures and plans to meet the current and long-term enterprise requirements, as well as ensuring that the respective business, application, data and technology perspectives are in line with the bank’s data governance strategies, policies and standards.
The role holder will also be required to interpret, use and apply information contained within the enterprise data architecture to inform a range of business improvement activities, particularly those involved in the implementation, design, development, enhancement and maintenance of ICT systems and business processes.
About the Person
Are you are a subject matter expert as far as Data Architecture is concerned? Do you possess in-depth knowledge and experience across multiple technology platforms, business processes and enterprise architecture? Are you well experienced in the use of data modelling tools and languages?
Then, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make use of your skills, experience and be part of groundbreaking & visionary thinking within a team that contributes to Data analytics strategies geared towards informing business decisions.
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Design logical and physical data models that support enterprise-wide information requirements, ensuring alignment between data structures, business processes, and emerging analytical needs.
- Architect data pipelines, storage solutions and frameworks to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
- Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, including the selection, integration, and governance of data technologies across big data platforms.
- Architect and optimize data lake and data lake house environments, capturing data transitions and historical snapshots to support high-performance analytics and advanced reporting.
- Develop and maintain metadata architecture, governing how metadata is created, cataloged, integrated, and accessed across the data analytics platforms. Establish enterprise taxonomies, data dictionaries, and namespaces to ensure consistency and discoverability of data assets.
- Define conceptual and long-term data architecture strategies to meet current and future enterprise data requirements, ensuring adaptability to emerging technologies and business priorities.
- Analyze and document enterprise information needs from operational, analytical, compliance, and regulatory perspectives, ensuring data solutions meet all governing standards.
- Promote architectural best practices, sharing lessons learned, and continuously updating the enterprise data architecture based on evolving big data technologies, market trends, cloud capabilities, and vendor solutions.
- Support strategic decision-making by integrating insights from multiple data sources, applying analytical guidelines, and determining how information can best support business priorities.
- Drive outcomes and ensure quality delivery, managing tasks through completion, prioritizing effectively, and seeking feedback to improve solution quality.
- Support strong working relationships by collaborating with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and technology partners, remaining responsive to changing needs and expectations.
- Demonstrate personal drive and integrity, taking ownership of objectives, showing initiative, and maintaining high levels of motivation to achieve architectural goals.
- Support design and implementation of data privacy by design through the data lifecycle.
Skills, Competencies and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, engineering or related discipline.
- Expert knowledge across multiple technology platforms, business processes and enterprise architecture.
- At least 5 years’ experience in enterprise infrastructure or data design and planning and similar experience in application development or architectural design of enterprise application using key development tools and frameworks (Java, .net, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, UML, etc.)
- Expert knowledge in SQL/PLSQL and data modelling.
- TOGAF certification will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in working with or leading a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration environment.
- Strong background in understanding organizational resources, priorities, needs and policies, and use of the same in developing IT strategies and solutions.
- Excellent presentation, communication and negotiation skills. Communicates with influence, confidently presenting communications in a clear, concise and articulate manner, focusing on key points and using appropriate, unambiguous language, selecting the most appropriate medium for conveying information, and structuring written and oral communication to ensure clarity.
- Analytical with good project management and team leadership skills.
- Knowledge in the use of notable data management tools.
Competencies
- Leads from the front
- Delivers and owns results
- Values and respects others
- Drives innovation
- Fosters Communication
- Inspires trust and integrity
- Customer Centric
If you are confident that you fit the role and person profile, and you are keen to add value to your career then please forward your application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to [email protected] indicating “DA/IID/2025” in the subject line by close of business on 31st December 2025.
