Key Responsibilities
- Analyzing enterprise specifics – Facilitate the identification
and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise
business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
- Solution Design – End-to-end solution & architecture
design for assigned projects and initiatives and ensuring solution design
alignment between stakeholders before implementation.
- Analyzing and documenting requirements – Elicit business
requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys,
site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business
analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Setting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the business
subject matter experts in the development of clear roadmaps of business
solutions.
- Analyzing the technology environment – Provide an analysis to
determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may
include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems
enhancement.
- Controlling solution development – Participate in solution
developments to ensure technical (as documented in solution designs) and
business requirements are adhered to. Any valid deviations
should be documented exceptions for tracking and remediation of technical
debt.
- Supporting project management- Provide architectural oversight
of projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business
strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
- Leverage’s business capabilities as a platform for
illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their
technology, solution, business and information architecture efforts
- Translate strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change
initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into
effective conceptual and logical models.
- Build and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies,
and business development documents
- Ability to independently facilitate discussions with groups of
diverse stakeholders and manage the flow of conversation while driving to
meet business objectives.
- Ability to independently manage conflict among diverse cross
portfolio stakeholders related to competing interests and requirements.
Able to help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and
ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.
- Develop and guide adoption of design patterns with a view of
standardizing solution components built for the enterprise
- Participate, guide and support quality assurance team in
planning and execution of performance testing and other non-functional
tests
- Lead in all round capacity management for current and future
solutions
Minimum Position Requirements
For the above position, the successful applicant
should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering,
Information Technology, or a related field of study
- Professional Qualifications’, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation, Design
Thinking, and Innovation (One or more certification).
- Project Management/ Scrum Certifications; PRINCE
II/PMP/MSP/SMC/CSM/PMI-ACP
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Information Technology
- Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (business
architecture, application architecture, application development,
middleware, microservices and Service Oriented Architecture)
- Experience in Database management systems.
- Prior working experience with a formal enterprise architecture
framework
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing
and containerization.
- Excellent understanding of software delivery processes,
(DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid)
- 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 solution Architecture.
- Highly developed soft skills, such as listening, empathy, and
the ability to adjust communication style based on the audience.
How To Apply
