Data Architect

About the role

KCB Group is hiring a Data Architect in Nairobi (Westlands). The role develops and aligns information architecture strategy with business processes and goals, covering data definitions and stewardship, information lifecycle management, big data, integrated data security and unified collaboration. It ensures stakeholders receive timely, reliable and secure information to respond quickly to market changes.

Key responsibilities

• Provide information strategy and architecture for the Bank, including design blueprints, artefacts and validated roadmaps.
• Design and guide consistent cross-functional solutions that build enterprise data solutions regardless of technology or platform.
• Elicit and document business requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, use cases and workflow analysis.
• Maintain architectures affecting the Bank's information architecture, including structured and unstructured data standards, roadmaps, patterns and methodologies.
• Lead the breakdown of business vision and strategy into technology deliverables mapped to data needs, and liaise with program or data platform leadership on solution dependencies.
• Provide data engineering and data solution governance so build components follow defined cross-program solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies such as IoT, Big Data, AI and machine learning.
• Assess the current business framework to find data deficiencies and recommend improvements aligned with IT strategy.
• Coordinate integration architecture so project-based solutions align with enterprise principles, patterns and standards.
• Develop conceptual, logical and physical data models for data analysis and business intelligence, and participate in IT quality assurance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of technical experience, including 5 years in IT focused on data analysis, data systems, data models, data governance, data architecture, applications architecture and/or software development.
• 5 years in at least three of: application architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, application development, middleware, microservices in a multitier environment.
• 5 years operating and database systems (Windows, Unix).
• TOGAF and CBAP advantageous; PRINCE II, PMP, MSP, SMC, CSM, PMI-ACP desirable.