The role:

The successful jobholder will be expected to:

• Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the Banks’s long-term business objectives.
• Gather business and technology requirements through discovery sessions then define, design and develop blueprint and roadmaps based on customer needs and continuously work other teams to streamline internal process to improve service delivery then deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture.
• Recommend and participate in the development of architecture blueprints and roadmaps for related systems.
• Share best practices, lessons learned and constantly update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each technology solution and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture. Recommends the most suitable technical architecture and defines the technology solution at a high level.
• Ensure that the overall ICT architecture is maintained in a coherent manner and that appropriate considerations are made for its security and quality.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to influence functional strategy.
• Utilize high level analytical ability and creativity to analyze complex/new situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities, impacts and risks while developing and implementing plans and solution deliverables to customer problems.
• Provides guidance to team members (Project managers, Architects, Sales Specialists, and other IT Specialists, among others) in areas of new and complex implementation and/or management tools and techniques.
• Ensure architectural documentation relating to current implementations, prototyping, performance testing and providing growth and scalability plans for the system, provide
• production support as well as design and deployment of advanced collaboration platforms within an Enterprise soft skill.
• Ensure knowledge management, this will involve participating in, and/or being responsible for the creation, harvesting, protection, and reuse of Co-operative Bank’s intellectual capital. This will also include actively participating in knowledge sharing activities like communities of practice, forums, conferences and/or other knowledge exchanges.

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an IT, engineering or related discipline.
• Expert and broad knowledge across multiple technology Platforms, Processes, IT Architectures, and the banking industry digitization trends
• At least 5 years’ experience in Technology infrastructure design and planning preferably in banking or financial services industry.
• At least 5 years’ experience in development / architectural design of systems using key development tools and frameworks (java, .net, php, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, jQuery etc.).
• TOGAF certification, ITIL certification, and knowledge of Artificial intelligence (AI) architecture will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in working with or leading enterprise services bus (ESB) a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Microservices architecture (MSA), containerization integration, DevOps, and Agile environments.
• Strong background in understanding organizational technology resources, priorities, needs and policies, and use of the same in developing IT strategies, technology roadmaps, and custom solutions.
• Analytical with good project management and team leadership skills.
• Excellent Presentation, communication and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge in the use of notable industry tools, emerging technologies and trends.