Enterprise Architect

22 hours ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya I&M Bank Limited Full time 1,200,000 - 3,600,000 per year

Job Purpose:

  • The role will focus on aligning business strategy with technology capabilities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling innovation across the financial technology solutions.
  • The Enterprise Architect will play a key role in driving Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps, ensuring resilience, scalability, alignment with business goals and technology standards and security of systems while supporting regulatory and compliance requirements in the banking sector.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with business leaders to understand strategic banking objectives and how Technology will contribute to achieving the objectives. 
  • Translate business needs into target state architectures for applications, data, infrastructure, and security. 
  • Identify opportunities for automation, customer experience enhancement, and operational efficiency through technology. 
  • Develop and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference models aligned with banking regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, PSD2, CBK, Basel III). 
  • Ensure all solutions comply with internal security policies and external financial regulations. 
  • Conduct architecture reviews for systems across the enterprise to ensure compliance with Bank Strategy, Policies and Standards. 
  • Support the design of multi-year Architecture roadmaps covering the IT Landscape. 
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for adoption. 
  • Assess technical debt in legacy systems and propose migration or modernization strategies. 
  • Collaborate with solution architects to ensure projects align with enterprise architecture. 
  • Provide input for integration of fintech's, payment networks, and regulatory systems. 
  • Ensure interoperability of applications across the enterprise. 
  • Contribute to IT risk management and security architecture, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity in line with banking regulations. 
  • Participate in design reviews for fraud detection, data protection, and cybersecurity controls. 
  • Maintain architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and decision records. 
  • Communicate complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to executives and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Promote adoption of architectural best practices across IT and business units.

Education and Work Experience:

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field. 
  • 5–8 years of IT experience, with at least 3 years in enterprise/solution architecture within the banking or financial services industry.
  • Good understanding of banking applications, services, standards, and best practices.
    Technical Skills:
  • TOGAF. 
  • ITIL. 
  • Cloud Solutions Architecture Certifications e.g. AWS/ Azure/ GCP.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • In-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF). 
  • Proficiency in architecture modeling tools and specifications. 
  • Strong understanding of development, data governance, and cybersecurity frameworks. 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
  • Ability to balance innovation with regulatory and risk constraints.

If you believe you meet the above requirements log onto our  and click on careers and apply for the position. Your application should reach us as soon as possible but not later than 21st October 2025.

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