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Category

Information Technology

Employment Type

Full-time

Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Vacancies

1 position

Closing Date

11/13/2026
11 days left

Employer / Company

KCB Bank Kenya logo
KCB Bank Kenya
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Description (Public)

The Data Architect develops and aligns the Bank's information architecture strategy with business processes and goals, providing design blueprints, data models and data governance across enterprise solutions.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Provide information strategy and architecture for the Bank that meets business and enterprise needs, delivering design blueprints.
  • Design and guide the building of consistent cross-functional solutions that build enterprise data capability.
  • Analyse and document requirements through interviews, workshops and surveys.
  • Develop and maintain architectures that impact the Bank's Information Architecture across structured and unstructured data.
  • Ensure solutions leverage enterprise data solutions that deliver reuse benefits across programmes.
  • Lead the breakdown, planning and sequencing of business strategy into technology deliverables.
  • Provide data engineering and data solution governance so that build components adhere to defined architecture.
  • Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for data management, storage and analytics, including IoT, big data and artificial intelligence.
  • Assess the current business framework for critical data deficiencies and recommend improvements in line with IT strategy.
  • Coordinate integration architecture so project-based integration solutions align with enterprise integration standards, and develop conceptual, logical and physical data models.

Qualifications, Education and Competencies

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study.
  • Professional certification in data, business analysis or architecture is an added advantage.
  • At least 7 years' experience in data architecture, data engineering or enterprise information management.

Skills & Competencies:

  • Data modelling across conceptual, logical and physical layers.
  • Data governance, integration architecture and quality assurance knowledge.
  • Knowledge of emerging data technologies including big data, IoT and AI platforms.
  • Strong stakeholder analysis and documentation skills.

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