
Business Architect
Kcb Bank Kenya
Nairobi | Full Time | Banking / Financial Services
Closing in 1 week from now
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Participate in the elicitation of business requirements using various techniques such interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Support the translation of strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business requirement into actionable technical deliverables.
- Work closely with subject matter experts from business and technology in the identification of capability gaps and the development of business capability models.
- Support the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
- Perform technical analysis to provide guidance and direction on the best path for solving business problems/opportunities within the existing architecture framework.
- Participate in technology projects to ensure that business requirements are aligned with the organization’s strategies and enterprise architecture roadmap/framework.
- Develop Business Architecture artefacts such as business capability maps, blueprints, and reference architectures, and ensure that they are maintained in an accessible repository.
- Participate in discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and ‘shape’ the flow of conversation towards meeting business aspirations without violating the approved architectural standards.
- Leverages business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business and information architecture efforts
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Academic & Professional
- Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study RQ
- Professional Qualifications CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL AA
- Project Management PRINCE II AA
Experience
- Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 5 years
Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type[5]
- 5+ years progressive experience in Information Technology 5 RQ
- Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as business architecture, application architecture, application development, business analysis 5 ES
- Operating systems windows, Unix 3 DE
- Database management systems 3 DE
- Prior working experience in formal Business Analysis or Applications Architecture or solution architecture 3 DE
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments 3 DE
- Good understanding of software delivery processes and methodologies i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid 3 DE
- Good interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation 3 DE
- Good planning and organizational skills with ability to break down complex items to actionable elements 3 DE
- Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories UML knowledge 3 DE
- Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications on individual components and projects 3 DE
- Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Business Architecture 3 DE
- Highly developed soft skills, such as listening, empathy, and the ability to adjust communication style based on the audience. 3 DE
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