Engineering · Full-time
Direct employerEnterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization)
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Role overview
World Vision Kenya is hiring an Enterprise Architect specialising in Business Architecture. This full-time role is home-based in Kenya and suits experienced professionals with strong enterprise architecture skills. The position involves providing architectural leadership across multiple initiatives to ensure solutions align with enterprise goals.
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What you will do
- Provide architectural leadership across various initiatives and domains to ensure coherence and alignment with enterprise direction.
- Shape architecture to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards and transition roadmaps.
- Identify cross-domain dependencies, risks, and opportunities for reuse.
- Contribute to the development and evolution of enterprise standards and patterns.
- Maintain enterprise architecture views and inputs within the EA repository.
- Lead development of segment and enterprise architecture views with the EA practice.
- Mentor Solution and Lead Architects to improve architectural maturity.
- Provide architectural input during idea shaping, business case development, and planning.
- Review solution architectures for alignment, risk, and sustainability.
- Support resolution of architectural issues spanning domains or teams.
- Identify and assess architectural risk and technical debt across initiatives.
- Develop and maintain transition architectures and support prioritisation of architectural improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- TOGAF, OpenCA, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred but not required.
- Broad knowledge of enterprise technology landscapes including applications, integration, data, cloud, and security.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns at organisational scale.
- Ability to connect architectural strategy with practical delivery through technical skills.
- Experience with enterprise repositories and architecture artefacts to curate and assure quality.
- Experience shaping and assuring architecture across multiple initiatives, portfolios, or domains.
- Experience advising leaders on architectural trade-offs involving cost, risk, sustainability, and long-term outcomes.
- Experience identifying cross-domain dependencies, risks, and reuse opportunities.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and contributing to governance and decision forums.
- Experience working within enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks.
Benefits
The employer offers a competitive total rewards package tailored to the context of the work, but specific pay and benefits details are not stated.
How to apply
Submit your CV in English through the employer's official contact. The employer has not published a closing date.