Reporting into the Head of IT, The Manager IT Architecture & Solutions Development should demonstrate proficiency in Solutions Architecture, Innovation, digital products development through the design of business solutions, service-oriented solutions, related infrastructure and Project Management. This role holder will be considered an expert requiring a solid understanding of the service-oriented design paradigm including all related design principles, patterns, tools and the effects of their application to deliver a solid, robust and modular ecosystem of integration platforms. The job holder will be required to drive Innovation to support the digital agenda of KCB Bank Uganda towards a modern digitised bank with leadership in operational excellence and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the identification and development of innovative and emerging technologies with unwavering passion for delivering innovative, new products across all business functions. You will relentlessly and successfully drive the R&D function solving real consumer (Internal & External) needs with a focus on both the short-term and long-term product roadmap.
• Lead in business requirements elicitation and analysis, support business in developing of business cases and Customer journeys for digital solutions & integrations.
Interface between IT and Business teams to collate, analyze and review business requirements for system changes requiring developments, new system acquisition and solutions. Works hand in hand with the Project Management Office to deliver strategic projects.
• Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
• Work with Group Enterprise Architecture to Implement architecture principles and development standards within Uganda.
• Recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions and systems.
• Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend design Patterns and guide their application and use in delivering integration solutions in the bank.
• Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of reusing it for future solutions.
• Review the existing ESB landscape and provide a plan for closure of any new or existing and known issues.
• Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance and load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.
• Lead the IT Change Management process and coordination of all Change Advisory Board CAB activities for Uganda changes.
• Work in close liaison with the business teams to manage the successful delivery and implementation of all technology projects.
• Project design, implementation, testing SIT, UAT and PIR.
Provide leadership to the Digital Channels Support Team, Applications & IT Service delivery unit in the IT department to ensure excellent service to the customers both internal and external.
• Provide governance on support of the existing digital channels to ensure timely defect resolution, adherence to readiness procedures, and escalation of system issues as appropriately.
• Work closely with IT Risk and Security to ensure that the alternative banking channels, developed solutions are designed, implemented and operated in a robust and well secured environment.
• Roll out of business solutions, ensuring that they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not adversely affect business processes, and providing processes and training to the users.
• Develop, test & maintain comprehensive data archiving & recovery procedures for all computing environments in liaison with system administrators to ensure that a timely and well-organized recovery is made back to acceptable levels of service.
• Periodic review of available and new technologies in line with best industry practice to support business growth.
• Provide technical support for the bank’s digital channels including ATMs, mobile banking, internet banking and agency banking systems.
• Build and develop fintech relationships and develop strategic partnerships with those who share our goal of continuous innovation and breakthrough thinking. The ability to lead and inspire fintech teams that bring products/services to market faster than our competition is critical. Your passion will show in both the product innovation and in the consumer experience.

Job Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology with a minimum of 5 years of work experience within the field of TechnologyProfessional Qualifications, Software development, Architecture Certifications like TOGAF is an added advantage. Master’s Degree Added advantage.
• Hands on experience in SOA architecture development, services governance,
• Hands-on project management experience working with defined project management methodologies, esp. Agile Methodology.
• Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture.4. Hands-on experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP and HTTP, REST and JMS and MQ protocols
• Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices
• Working knowledge of API security authentication, authorization, encryption of inflight messages.
• Experience with J2EE servers, Messaging, WS, SOA and API management technologies and standards
• Experience in performance planning, execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the services for optimal performance.
• Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture and infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security