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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)

Reporting to the Senior Manager Solutions Architecture, the Solution Architect develops solution designs and specifications and provides end-to-end architectural oversight for the Bank's projects and initiatives.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank's business drivers to deliver enterprise business and technology solutions.
  • Produce end-to-end solution and architecture designs for assigned projects, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Elicit and document business requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys and site visits.
  • Liaise with business subject matter experts to develop clear roadmaps of business services.
  • Analyse the technology environment and determine the best path for solving business problems and opportunities.
  • Participate in solution development to ensure technical and business requirements are met as documented in solution designs.
  • Provide architectural oversight of projects and ensure requirements align with business objectives.
  • Build and maintain repositories for deliverables, methodologies and business development documents.
  • Develop and guide adoption of design patterns that standardise solution components built for the enterprise.
  • Support quality assurance in planning and executing performance and other non-functional testing, and lead capacity management for current and future solutions.

Qualifications, Education and Competencies

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
  • One or more professional certifications such as CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation or Design Thinking and Innovation.
  • At least 7 years' experience in solution architecture or enterprise technology design.

Skills & Competencies:

  • Strong requirements elicitation and solution design skills.
  • Ability to independently facilitate discussions with diverse stakeholders and manage conflicting priorities.
  • Architectural oversight of projects and alignment of business needs to technology decisions.
  • Capacity management and non-functional testing experience.

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