World Vision is an international Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation working in almost 100 countries world-wide to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
The Enterprise Architecture Head leads the architecture practice at World Vision Kenya, defining frameworks, principles, and technology roadmaps. This role provides leadership to a team of architects and oversees major transformation programmes including cloud migration, cybersecurity, and digital capability initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Governance & Strategy
- Define and maintain the Enterprise Architecture framework, principles, technology reference architecture, and enterprise roadmap.
- Lead architecture review processes and provide sign-off on significant technology decisions.
- Partner with the Technology Business Management office to ensure architecture decisions are visible in technology investment and portfolio governance.
Architecture Practice Leadership & People Management
- Lead, coach, and develop direct reports: Enterprise Architect, Solution Architects, and Cybersecurity Architect.
- Establish consistent ways of working, quality standards, and governance rhythm across the practice.
- Provide architectural oversight and mentorship to Data and Cloud Architects during their establishment phase.
Transformation Programme Architecture
- Provide architectural direction and governance across active transformation programmes including cloud migration, unified data, IAM, cybersecurity uplift, and digital capability initiatives.
- Ensure cross-domain coherence so no initiative creates architectural debt or integration complexity.
Integration Strategy & Governance
- Define and own the organisation's integration strategy covering API design principles, middleware, data flow standards, and platform choices.
- Exercise functional authority over Integration Platform Admins and Engineers.
- Establish and govern integration patterns across third-party and internal systems.
Development Practices & Standards
- Establish and maintain organisation-wide development practices including coding standards, code review processes, branching strategies, testing standards, and technical debt management frameworks.
- Influence and evangelise adoption across development and product teams.
Stakeholder Engagement & Technology Business Management Partnership
- Build trusted relationships with engineering, product, operations, and business leaders.
- Communicate architecture strategy and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences including the CIO.
- Represent architecture in programme governance, steering groups, and vendor discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Postgraduate qualification in IT, Business, or Architecture is advantageous.
- Architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent) preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise, solution, or technical architecture roles, with at least 3–5 years in a senior or lead architect capacity.
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance across complex, multi-domain transformation programmes.
- Proven track record in defining and implementing integration strategy in multi-system environments.
- Experience establishing or significantly uplifting architecture governance frameworks and development standards.
- People leadership experience managing and developing small, senior technical teams.
- Comfortable operating in environments where functions and practices are still being established.
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply via the World Vision careers portal: Apply Here
