Enterprise Architecture Governance Analyst at KCB Bank

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand the Bank’s business and technology landscape to evaluate their contribution to strategic success, ensuring correct prioritization and focus of architectural effort.
• Identify and curate technical debt across domains, assess its impact, and develop practical solutions and opportunities to progressively reduce it in line with the Bank’s transformation agenda.
• Strengthen Enterprise Architecture governance by supporting the Architecture Review Board (ARB), ensuring timely submissions, accurate documentation of ARB decisions.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures across business, data, application, and technology domains, aligning with the Bank’s strategic vision, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Track and monitor architectural initiatives and roadmaps, verifying remediation of identified gaps, escalating risks, and ensuring alignment with agreed transition paths.
• Track the design and sequencing of transition architectures that progressively actualize the reference architecture target state, balancing immediate business needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Maintain and continuously enrich the EA repository, covering architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, compliance metrics, and other reusable assets to entrench best practice.
• Ensure Propper tracking of the projects, initiatives put in place to remediate the compliance deficits and agreed roadmap, periodically conducting confirmation/verification checks, and reviewing escalations.
• Progressively assess applications and platforms for fit-for-purpose using industry frameworks such as the TIME model and recommend technology interventions to address identified gaps.
• Contribute to the adoption of emerging technologies and practices that strengthen EA maturity, enhance customer experience, and drive operational excellence and business growth.

The Ideal Candidate: Academic, Professional & Experience:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical field of study.
• Master’s degree in technology / business will be an added advantage
• Professional Qualifications i.e TOGAF or Other Architecture Related Certifications, CBAP, Prince II or related project management certifications
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS or Azure or GCP)
• 8+years progressive experience in Information Technology / Engineering is required
• 4 years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture, Software development or related area of specialization is essential.
• 4 years of expertise in any architecture domain such as application / solutions, data, business, technology - security and infrastructure architecture is essential.

In addition, the preferred candidate should demonstrate at least 3 years of proven experience in each of the following competencies:

• Experience with hybrid cloud architectures and migrations from on-premises to the cloud 
• In-depth knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, methodologies, and best practices   
• Strong expertise in solution architecture, including experience with cloud technologies, data architecture, application architecture, and integration patterns. 
• Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid) & DevOps.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture
• Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications on individual components and projects.
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Enterprise Architecture.