Responsibilities

• Conduct business process improvement initiatives aimed at improving efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Act as a liaison to Business and IT in order to gain a broad understanding of business initiatives and their impact on technology.
• Documentation of business requirements and processes for all business initiatives and projects.
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables.
• Liaise with the Business subject matter expert in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
• Lead effort to work with business leaders to identify business capability needs and IT integration.
• Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
• Assess the current Business framework to detect critical deficiencies and recommend for improvement in line with the IT strategy and delivery priority of the IT/Bank programs.
• Function as a liaison to Business and IT partners in order to gain a broad understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on technology.
• Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement visa Vis information technology systems enhancement.
• Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
• Participate and guide on functional tests planning and execution.
• Participate in the IT quality assurance process.

The Person

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 in CBAP, TOGAF OR Prince2 will be an added advantage.
• 7 years progressive experience in Information Technology with focus on Business Analysis, Applications Architecture or Software Development.
• 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Application architecture, application development, middleware, and SOA) and Software Asset Management in a multitier environment.
• 3 years’ experience in Operating systems (Windows, Unix).
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components.
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization.