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Data Architect
KCB Group
Job at a glance
- Employer
- KCB Group
- Position
- Data Architect
- Location
- Kenya
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 7+ years total technical experience
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in CS, Eng, IT or related
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- 13 November 2026
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 30 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
KCB Group is hiring a Data Architect to develop information architecture strategy aligned with business goals. You will design robust enterprise data solutions, manage data governance, and ensure stakeholders have reliable, secure information.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Focus on enterprise-wide data strategy and governance.
- Involves evaluating emerging tech like AI and IoT.
- Requires deep expertise across multiple architectural domains.
Key responsibilities
- Provide information strategy and architecture meeting business and enterprise needs.
- Design consistent cross-functional solutions for enterprise data regardless of platform.
- Elicit and document business requirements via interviews, workshops, and analysis.
- Develop and maintain architectures managing structured and unstructured data standards.
- Lead breaking down business vision into technology deliverables and data needs.
- Govern data engineering and solutions to ensure adherence to defined standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies like IoT, Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning.
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for BI and analysis.
Who should apply?
This role suits an experienced IT professional with strong backgrounds in data architecture, governance, and modeling, holding relevant degrees and potentially TOGAF/CBAP certifications.
Key requirements
- Bachelor's in CS/IT/Engineering
- 7+ years technical experience
- 5+ years in Data Architecture/Governance
- 5+ years in 3+ IT disciplines
- Windows/Unix OS experience
Nice to have
- TOGAF and CBAP professional qualifications.
- Project Management certifications (PRINCE II, PMP, MSP, SMC, CSM, PMI-ACP).
How to apply
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JOB PURPOSE
The holder of this role will be responsible of developing and aligning information architecture strategy with business processes and goals and applying best practices in areas such as data definitions and stewardship, information lifecycle management, big data, integrated data security, and unified collaboration. He/She will ensure different stakeholders have the timely, reliable and secure information they need to react quickly to market changes and manage the business effectively
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide information strategy and architecture for the Bank that meets business and enterprise needs, and to deliver design blueprints/artefacts that enable that architecture to be built and operated, as well as appropriately validated roadmaps.
• Design and guide the building of consistent cross functional solutions that are robust in answering deliverables that build enterprise data solutions regardless of technology or data platform.
• Analyzing and documenting requirements- Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Develop and maintain all architectures that impact the Information Architecture of the Bank, incorporating the management of structured and unstructured data standards, roadmaps, patterns and methodologies for all business solutions and technologies
• Ensure that all solutions leverage, and consider enterprise data solutions that provide as much reuse benefit across multiple programs as feasibly possible
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables and mapping to data needs. Liaise with program or data platforms leadership to report and plan solution dependencies
• Provide data engineering and data solution governance around the programs and engineering teams to ensure build components adhere to defined cross program solutions
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for data management, storage, and analytics such as IoT, Big Data, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning etc.
• 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 data deficiencies and recommend for improvement in line with the IT strategy and delivery priority of the IT/Bank programs.
• Coordination of integration architecture ensuring alignments of discrete project-based integration solutions with enterprise integration architecture principals, patterns, and standards.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support data analysis and business intelligence
• Participate in the IT quality assurance process. 1. sired future state
Academic & Professional
Particulars
Detail
Specific Field or Qualification
Need Type 4
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
Bachelor's degree in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study
RQ
Professional Qualifications
TOGAF, CBAP
AA
Project Management/ Scrum Certifications
PRINCE II/PMP/MSP/SMC/CSM/PMI-ACP
DE
Experience
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type [1]
Total Minimum No of Years’ Technical Experience Required
7
RQ
Information Technology with focus Data Analysis, Data systems, Data models, Data Governance, data Architecture, Applications Architecture and /or Software Development
5
RQ
Experience in at least three of the following IT disciplines such as (Application architecture, Data Architecture, Integration
architecture, application development, middleware, Microservices) in a multitier environment.
5
RQ
Operating and database systems (windows, Unix)
5
RQ
The holder of this role will be responsible of developing and aligning information architecture strategy with business processes and goals and applying best practices in areas such as data definitions and stewardship, information lifecycle management, big data, integrated data security, and unified collaboration. He/She will ensure different stakeholders have the timely, reliable and secure information they need to react quickly to market changes and manage the business effectively
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide information strategy and architecture for the Bank that meets business and enterprise needs, and to deliver design blueprints/artefacts that enable that architecture to be built and operated, as well as appropriately validated roadmaps.
• Design and guide the building of consistent cross functional solutions that are robust in answering deliverables that build enterprise data solutions regardless of technology or data platform.
• Analyzing and documenting requirements- Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Develop and maintain all architectures that impact the Information Architecture of the Bank, incorporating the management of structured and unstructured data standards, roadmaps, patterns and methodologies for all business solutions and technologies
• Ensure that all solutions leverage, and consider enterprise data solutions that provide as much reuse benefit across multiple programs as feasibly possible
• Provide the leadership in breaking down, planning and sequencing the business vision & strategy into technology deliverables and mapping to data needs. Liaise with program or data platforms leadership to report and plan solution dependencies
• Provide data engineering and data solution governance around the programs and engineering teams to ensure build components adhere to defined cross program solutions
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for data management, storage, and analytics such as IoT, Big Data, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning etc.
• 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 data deficiencies and recommend for improvement in line with the IT strategy and delivery priority of the IT/Bank programs.
• Coordination of integration architecture ensuring alignments of discrete project-based integration solutions with enterprise integration architecture principals, patterns, and standards.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support data analysis and business intelligence
• Participate in the IT quality assurance process. 1. sired future state
Academic & Professional
Particulars
Detail
Specific Field or Qualification
Need Type 4
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
Bachelor's degree in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study
RQ
Professional Qualifications
TOGAF, CBAP
AA
Project Management/ Scrum Certifications
PRINCE II/PMP/MSP/SMC/CSM/PMI-ACP
DE
Experience
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type [1]
Total Minimum No of Years’ Technical Experience Required
7
RQ
Information Technology with focus Data Analysis, Data systems, Data models, Data Governance, data Architecture, Applications Architecture and /or Software Development
5
RQ
Experience in at least three of the following IT disciplines such as (Application architecture, Data Architecture, Integration
architecture, application development, middleware, Microservices) in a multitier environment.
5
RQ
Operating and database systems (windows, Unix)
5
RQ