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Senior Manager IT Applications & Asset Management
KCB Group
Job at a glance
- Employer
- KCB Group
- Position
- Senior Manager IT Applications & Asset Management
- Location
- Kenya
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 6+ years in specific domains
- Education
- Bachelor's in CS/IT/Engineering
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- 23 October 2026
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 16 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
KCB Group is hiring a Senior Manager for IT Applications & Asset Management in Kenya. You will lead the support and enhancement of Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications while managing the technical team.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Focus on Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications
- Requires leading both support teams and technical projects
- Strict minimum of 6 years relevant industry experience
Key responsibilities
- Provide operational leadership for day-to-day support of Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications.
- Ensure service availability through monitoring, incident management, change control, and vendor coordination.
- Plan, direct, and review the work of the Business Applications Support team.
- Drive system enhancements, automation, and process improvements to strengthen efficiency and controls.
- Lead technical delivery for projects involving integrations with core banking, digital, and third-party systems.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation including support procedures, project reports, and technical plans.
- Build team capability through coaching, knowledge transfer, targeted training, and performance management.
- Develop business-continuity and disaster-recovery procedures to safeguard service availability.
Who should apply?
This role suits an experienced IT professional with deep knowledge of banking applications and strong leadership skills in technical support and project integration.
Key requirements
- Bachelor's in CS/IT/Engineering
- MCP/MCSA/MCSE/MCITP/ITIL/RedHat cert
- 6+ years Bancassurance/Investment Banking apps
- 6+ years Financial/Insurance regulatory knowledge
- 6+ years SOAP/REST/File integrations
- 3+ years Application admin/troubleshooting
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Management or IT.
- Certifications in LINUX/UNIX Administration.
- Cloud Management skills (Azure, AWS, OCI).
- Project Management qualifications (PMP, SCRUM, AGILE).
- Database Management expertise.
- 2+ years in project management and contract negotiation/administration.
How to apply
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• BAU Support Leadership: Provide operational leadership for the day-to-day support of Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications. Ensure service availability and stability through effective monitoring, incident and problem management, service-request fulfilment, change control, vendor coordination, support procedures, capacity planning and timely escalation, in line with agreed service levels and divisional policy.
• Team Management: Plan, direct, coordinate and review the work of the Business Applications Support team. Allocate activities and projects, assess work methods and outcomes, and resolve operational or service-delivery issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive system enhancements, automation, process improvements and user training across Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications to strengthen operational efficiency, controls and customer service.
• Project and Integration Leadership: Lead technical delivery for projects affecting Bancassurance, Investment Banking, Custody and Wealth Management applications, including integrations with core banking, digital, finance and third-party systems.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive application documentation, including support procedures, project and incident reports, process and user manuals, presentations, technical plans, integration specifications and service-performance reports.
• Capability Development: Build team capability in Bancassurance and Investment Banking application support through workforce planning, coaching, knowledge transfer, targeted training, performance management and staff engagement.
• Resilience and Continuity: Develop and maintain business-continuity, disaster-recovery, monitoring and support procedures that minimise downtime and safeguard the availability, integrity and resilience of Bancassurance and Investment Banking services.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Define and oversee testing methods for application changes, integrations, upgrades and fixes. Verify compliance with functional, security, performance and quality standards, and monitor defects through to resolution.
• Governance and Compliance: Review proposed software, vendor solutions and integrations to confirm compliance with architecture, security, regulatory, operational-risk and quality-assurance standards before acquisition or implementation.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
• Academic & Professional
Particulars
Detail
Specific Field or Qualification
Need Type [4]
Education
Bachelor’s degree
Computer Science or Information Technology or Computer/Electronics Engineering
RQ
Master’s degree
Management / IT
AA
Professional Qualifications
MCP/MCSA/MCSE / MCITP / ITIL / RedHat
RQ
LINUX/UNIX Administration
AA
Cloud Management (Azure, AWS, OCI)
AA
Project Management (PMP, SCRUM, AGILE)
AA
Database Management
AA
• Experience
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required
6
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type [5]
Operational and technical characteristics of a variety of payment platforms including Bancassurance, Investment and Wealth Banking and 3 rd Party Integrations
6
ES
Understanding of Financial, Insurance, Wealth and Investment Services regulatory and audit regimen
6
ES
Basic budgeting, contracting, purchasing practices, policies and procedures
3
DS
Methods and techniques used in the installation, administration, monitoring, upgrading and problem resolution of central application software systems
3
DS
Principles of supervision and training
3
DS
Principles and procedures of quality assurance and security related to complex on payment systems and applications
3
DS
Principles and practices of application development and troubleshooting
3
DS
Effective analysis, communication, presentation and customer relationship skills
3
DS
Principles and practices of project management and administration
2
DE
Knowledge of relevant industry (banking) practise with experience on SOAP, Restful and Files integrations
6
ES
Principles of contract negotiation and administration
2
DE
• BAU Support Leadership: Provide operational leadership for the day-to-day support of Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications. Ensure service availability and stability through effective monitoring, incident and problem management, service-request fulfilment, change control, vendor coordination, support procedures, capacity planning and timely escalation, in line with agreed service levels and divisional policy.
• Team Management: Plan, direct, coordinate and review the work of the Business Applications Support team. Allocate activities and projects, assess work methods and outcomes, and resolve operational or service-delivery issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive system enhancements, automation, process improvements and user training across Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications to strengthen operational efficiency, controls and customer service.
• Project and Integration Leadership: Lead technical delivery for projects affecting Bancassurance, Investment Banking, Custody and Wealth Management applications, including integrations with core banking, digital, finance and third-party systems.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive application documentation, including support procedures, project and incident reports, process and user manuals, presentations, technical plans, integration specifications and service-performance reports.
• Capability Development: Build team capability in Bancassurance and Investment Banking application support through workforce planning, coaching, knowledge transfer, targeted training, performance management and staff engagement.
• Resilience and Continuity: Develop and maintain business-continuity, disaster-recovery, monitoring and support procedures that minimise downtime and safeguard the availability, integrity and resilience of Bancassurance and Investment Banking services.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Define and oversee testing methods for application changes, integrations, upgrades and fixes. Verify compliance with functional, security, performance and quality standards, and monitor defects through to resolution.
• Governance and Compliance: Review proposed software, vendor solutions and integrations to confirm compliance with architecture, security, regulatory, operational-risk and quality-assurance standards before acquisition or implementation.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
• Academic & Professional
Particulars
Detail
Specific Field or Qualification
Need Type [4]
Education
Bachelor’s degree
Computer Science or Information Technology or Computer/Electronics Engineering
RQ
Master’s degree
Management / IT
AA
Professional Qualifications
MCP/MCSA/MCSE / MCITP / ITIL / RedHat
RQ
LINUX/UNIX Administration
AA
Cloud Management (Azure, AWS, OCI)
AA
Project Management (PMP, SCRUM, AGILE)
AA
Database Management
AA
• Experience
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required
6
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type [5]
Operational and technical characteristics of a variety of payment platforms including Bancassurance, Investment and Wealth Banking and 3 rd Party Integrations
6
ES
Understanding of Financial, Insurance, Wealth and Investment Services regulatory and audit regimen
6
ES
Basic budgeting, contracting, purchasing practices, policies and procedures
3
DS
Methods and techniques used in the installation, administration, monitoring, upgrading and problem resolution of central application software systems
3
DS
Principles of supervision and training
3
DS
Principles and procedures of quality assurance and security related to complex on payment systems and applications
3
DS
Principles and practices of application development and troubleshooting
3
DS
Effective analysis, communication, presentation and customer relationship skills
3
DS
Principles and practices of project management and administration
2
DE
Knowledge of relevant industry (banking) practise with experience on SOAP, Restful and Files integrations
6
ES
Principles of contract negotiation and administration
2
DE