As our Architecture Practice Lead, you will lead and enable the Enterprise Architecture practice, ensuring architects are effective, supported, and consistently integrated into organizational ways of working. The Architecture Practice Lead is accountable for people leadership, practice maturity, and operational enablement, creating the conditions for high-quality architecture outcomes, while technical authority and architectural judgment remain with the Principal Architect.
Key Responsibilities
Practice Leadership & Capability Development
- Lead, develop, and support architects across the practice (Solution, Lead, and Enterprise Architects).
- Build a cohesive, high-performing architecture practice with clear roles, expectations, and ways of working.
- Drive capability development, mentoring, and skills uplift aligned to organizational needs.
- Plan and manage architecture practice capacity to balance demand, priorities, and available resources across the portfolio.
- Foster a culture of professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Operational Enablement of Architecture & Technical Debt
- Enable consistent identification, documentation, and visibility of architectural risks and technical debt.
- Support the Principal Architect in maintaining visibility of the technical debt baseline and agreed remediation actions.
- Embed architecture engagement into governance, service lifecycle, and planning processes.
- Coordinate inputs and follow-through across architects, delivery teams, and governance forums.
Integration, Governance & Reporting
- Integrate the architecture practice into portfolio, demand, and governance forums.
- Ensure architecture engagement is predictable, timely, and clearly understood across the organization.
- Enable effective use and adoption of architecture tools, repositories, and artefacts to support decision-making, governance, and practice maturity.
- Ensure architecture information remains accessible, accurate, and relevant for stakeholders and leadership.
- Provide visibility of architecture practice health, capacity, and effectiveness to senior stakeholders.
- Continuously refine architecture ways of working based on feedback and outcomes.
Professional Behaviors & Capabilities
- Enabling Leadership: Enables architects to perform at their best rather than acting as the primary technical authority; removes barriers for consistent outcomes.
- Clear and Consistent Communication: Communicates expectations, priorities, and outcomes clearly across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Coordination & Integration: Aligns architecture activities with delivery, governance, and planning rhythms.
- Respect for Technical Authority: Actively protects and reinforces the technical authority of senior architects.
- Professional Integrity: Acts with fairness, transparency, and accountability in leadership.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture practices, roles, and engagement models across solution, domain, and enterprise levels.
- Experience embedding architecture into governance, portfolio management, and delivery lifecycles.
- Understanding of how architectural standards, technical debt, and risk management operate in complex organizations.
- Working knowledge of architecture repositories, artefacts, and methods.
- Experience engaging senior business and technology leaders on architecture outcomes, priorities, and performance.
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority across federated teams and functions.
- Experience leading or enabling professional teams in a capability or practice model.
- Experience coaching, developing, and performance-managing senior technical professionals.
- Experience tracking practice performance, capacity, and outcomes to support leadership decision-making.
Role Boundaries & Escalation
- This role does not act as the primary technical authority for architectural decisions.
- This role does not override architectural judgment made by senior architects.
- Technical arbitration and technical debt prioritization remain with the Principal Architect.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online through the World Vision Kenya career portal on Workday via the link: World Vision Kenya Workday Portal. You can also use the direct application link: Apply Here.
