This is a key role within the Innovation department which ensures the implementation of the innovation operating model from technical requirement, technical designs, prototyping, development, solution testing (SIT), and go live support. The unit oversees capabilities to deliver on the new solutions & technologies using agile principles, while creating a lasting competitive advantage in the digital arena.

Main Responsibilities:
• Ensure overall ownership of the architectural designs of technology platforms within the bank to ensure it’s within the technology and digital strategy.
• Ensure successful; design of the technical solutions, prepare solution design, system analysis and successful implementation of the solutions.

• Set the architecture and design for the bank’s products and technological solutions.
• Provide guidance on the effective use of solutions and architectures to achieve business outcomes in alignment with business requirements and the overall Enterprise Architecture.

• Provide solutions and recommendations on architecture designs to the vendor or internal developers.
• Provide guidance for encapsulating and isolating legacy systems as well as support targeted transitions of features to at-scale architectural patterns based on business goals.
• Foster repeatable and reusable architectural processes across the enterprise and products to aid in ensuring success of the design process.
• Highlight how the digital business initiatives can have potential impact of on the overall system architecture.
• Ensure effective management of risks and issues associated with solution designs and enterprise architecture.
• Provide detailed system specification document, map business requirements to optimal systems requirements; produce detailed functional/configuration designs/specifications and data architecture to match solution design specifications
• Create, evolve, and scale a new method of delivering digital solutions, adopting a lean, fail fast delivery methodology based on Agile principles.
• Following the scrum methodology to ensure all digital initiatives are implemented in an agile manner and follow the framework pillars and values.
• Regular update the sprints documents to reflect latest status and present the same to the scrum team and management.
• Coordinate efforts / activities of all scrum teams involved in each implementation including Product owners, System vendors, Internal developers, IT systems specialists (Application developers, Hardware, Operating system, Network, Middleware, Database), ICT Service desk, Customer Contact Centre, Marketing, external Business partners, etc.
• Coordinate System Administration training and hand-over of the system to the first level support ICT Service desk and respective second level support ICT unit
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training and reconciliation process with the respective product owner / business unit, Innovation Lab, Customer Experience.
• Ensure the development of a high- performing team through embedding formal Performance appraisal and informal coaching.
• Determine and analyze training and development needs for the team. Ensure that identified training is budgeted for and executed

Knowledge and Skills:
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation
• The ability to work in dynamic conditions, and transition quickly between collaborative and individual work
• Ability to establish and manage structures, processes and standards
• Strong planning, organization and documentation skills
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to conceptualize and systematically work through projects in accordance with a structured methodology
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels
• Coaching, leading and motivating skills

Qualifications and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field in Computer Science
• Project Management certification as added advantage
• 8-10 years of experience in solutions design or Enterprise Architecture role and IT leading projects
• 5 years of experience in a senior role.
• Experience in banking industry will be an added advantage.
• Extensive experience with project management/change management