Brief Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture, the role holder will shape and drive end to end Architecture for IT for Safaricom ensuring that our technology assets continuously evolve to deliver best customer experience, enable new rich services and meet future operational targets. This role requires a high caliber individual with strong strategic mindset. Solid understanding of IT Architecture together with underlying IT infrastructure is a key imperative. He/ She should be inquisitive, always keeping abreast with emerging IT best practice. The role holder should additionally have a track record of working effectively with a wide set of stakeholders on complex technology programs.

Detailed Description

• Manage target architecture vision and roadmap in alignment with Safaricom strategy.
• Design, develop and deploy Enterprise Architecture practices, standards, frameworks and patterns.
• Test and onboard new technologies and suppliers to drive innovation and meet emerging business requirements.
• Provide thought leadership on contextualization of global best practice for Safaricom Enterprise Architecture and IT strategy
• Develop standards to guide Solution Architecture practice and other teams in day-to-day delivery.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of hardware and software products
• Develop and maintain the technology roadmap for assigned area, collaborating with business and IT partners to ensure that the roadmap creates business value with technically sound solutions.
• Provide key inputs into financial management processes to align budget priorities with strategy and architecture.

QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree in Information Technology or a telecommunications biased discipline.
• Experience of leading development of complex technology strategies, architectures or roadmaps
• Experience in End-to-End Solution Architecting
• Demonstrated experience implementing standard architecture and governance frameworks in a busy IT environment. TOGAF preferred.
• Certification in leading Architecture frameworks will be added advantage. This may include TOGAF, CGEIT.
• Good understanding of broad set of technologies used in IT.
• At least 7 years’ experience working in a software engineering or planning role or End-to-End for BSS or OSS applications.
• Demonstrated experience working within financial and supplier management processes.