Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture
The Position:
The holder of the role
will be responsible of leading a team of solution & data architects and
will be responsible for solution-level decisions and analysis of their impact
on the overall business goals and outcomes. The holder of this position
leverages their knowledge of available technologies to propose the best
solution to address the business requirements within the context of existing
technology environment. The key deliverable of this role is to provide
specifications for technology solutions and the strategy for their
implementation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyzing
enterprise specifics – Facilitate the identification, analysis and
consideration of the Bank’s business drivers, information needs, technical
capability needs, architecture requirements & constraints for the
delivery of future proof solutions to the enterprise.
- Analyzing
and documenting requirements – Elicit business requirements through
interviews, 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 for Business solutions.
- Manage,
lead and mentor Solution Architects in their day-to-day work deliverables
and professional development
- Participating
in technology selection – Participate in identifying fit for purpose
technologies solutions for the Bank
- 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 and business requirements are adhered to with minimal technical
debt.
- Supporting
project management – Provide architectural oversight in projects ensuring
that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and guard
railed within the approved architecture roadmap/frameworks
- 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
- Translates
strategic initiatives into delivery-focused technology change initiatives,
while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual
and logical models.
- Lead
effort to work with business leaders to identify business capability needs
and IT integration
- Build
and maintain repository for architecture deliverables, methodologies,
frameworks, design patterns and decisions.
- Ability
to independently manage competing interests and requirements while leading
stakeholders to objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to
collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.
The Person:
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- BSc.
Information Technology / Computer Science / Telecommunications /
Engineering / (Electrical, Electronic) or related field
- Have
a minimum of 10 years’ experience in Technology with at least 7 years’
experience in in at least two IT disciplines such as (business
architecture, application architecture, application development,
middleware, microservices and SOA).
- Exposure
to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud and processing environments.
- Prior
working experience in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework
- Excellent
understanding of software delivery processes and methodologies (i.e.
waterfall, agile, hybrid) & DevOps.
- 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 Business
Architecture.
- Highly
developed soft skills, such as listening, empathy, and the ability to
adjust communication style based on the audience.
- Strong
teamwork and facilitation skills.
How to Apply
The above position is
demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration
package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate
your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our
Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by Friday 2nd December
2022.
Qualified candidates with
disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
