Engineering · Full-time
Direct employerDirector, Enterprise Architecture and Integrations
International Rescue Committee (IRC)

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Role overview
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integrations based in Nairobi, Kenya. This full-time role suits experienced IT leaders who can manage enterprise application architecture and integration across multiple platforms. It is ideal for someone with strong leadership skills and a background in enterprise IT environments.
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What you will do
- Own and set enterprise integration patterns and technical standards across the application portfolio.
- Establish and maintain standards for application building, integration, and support, ensuring delivery teams adhere to them.
- Manage the integration layer, including patterns, tooling, and standards for maintainable and observable integrations.
- Lead teams responsible for integration, custom application development, Drupal, and Azure platform engineering.
- Coordinate architecture and integration boundaries with various IT teams and partners.
- Maintain documentation of architecture decisions, integration patterns, and technical standards.
- Establish enterprise architecture governance, including principles, review processes, and decision rights.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in IT, enterprise applications, or architecture roles.
- Minimum 3 years in a leadership role managing a team.
- Experience setting architecture direction and technical standards in an enterprise environment.
- Ability to translate organisational needs into clear integration patterns and architecture decisions.
- Experience managing budgets for technology work.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API management, and integration tooling across multiple platforms.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise platforms such as D365 F&O, Workday, ServiceNow, M365, and Box.
- Experience owning technical standards and enforcing them with delivery teams.
- Ability to assess build-versus-configure tradeoffs and reduce unnecessary custom development.
- Experience establishing enterprise architecture governance and embedding it into organisational processes.
- Hands-on experience in application development and integration delivery, with ability to design integrations, review code, and troubleshoot.
- Experience leading custom application and web teams; Drupal experience is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain architecture decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience includes working in nonprofit, international development, or humanitarian IT environments; coordinating architecture boundaries across infrastructure and applications teams; experience with API management platforms like Azure APIM or Apigee; familiarity with event-driven architectures and cloud-native integration tools; and experience with serverless and microservices patterns.
Benefits
The advert states salary ranges for USA and UK locations but does not specify pay or benefits for Kenya.
How to apply
The employer has not published a closing date.