Enterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization) at World Vision
Position Title: Enterprise Architect (Business Architecture Specialization)
Employer: World Vision
Employment: Full-Time | Contract
Place of Work: Home Working - Kenya
Posted date: 1 hour ago
Deadline: March, 31/2026 (13 days left)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Enterprise architecture & alignment
- Shape architecture across multiple initiatives, products, and domains to ensure enterprise coherence
- Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, target architectures, and transition roadmaps
- Identify cross-domain dependencies, systemic risks, and opportunities for reuse
- Contribute to the development and continuous evolution of enterprise standards and patterns (ownership at Principal Architect level)
- Maintain and curate enterprise architecture views, inventories, and roadmap inputs within the EA repository
- Identify and prioritize architectural risk and technical debt reduction opportunities across initiatives
- Lead development of segment and enterprise architecture views in collaboration with the EA practice
- Act as Solution Architect on exceptionally complex or strategic initiatives where required
- Mentor and guide Solution and Lead Architects to raise architectural maturity
- Contribute to refinement and application of ADS artefacts within EA governance cycles
- Bridge enterprise architectural direction with solution-level execution needs and mitigations
- Act as a trusted architectural advisor to business and technology leaders
- Operate as a generalist enterprise architect with depth across multiple BDAT domains
Advisory & assurance
- Provide architectural input during idea shaping, business case development, and planning
- Review solution architectures for enterprise alignment, risk, and long-term sustainability
- Make architectural trade-offs, risks, and implications explicit to decision-makers
- Support resolution of architectural issues that span domains or teams
Technical debt & transition
- Identify and assess architectural risk and technical debt across initiatives
- Develop and maintain transition architectures (Now → Next → Later)
- Support prioritization of architectural improvements aligned to organizational strategy
PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORS & CAPABILTIES:
The Enterprise Architect is expected to demonstrate the following behaviors:
Strategic thinking & judgment
- Evaluates architectural options across multiple initiatives or domains
- Balances business value, technical risk, cost, and long-term sustainability
- Applies enterprise-level judgment in ambiguous and complex situations
Communication & architectural storytelling
- Communicates architectural intent, options, and trade-offs clearly to senior and non-technical stakeholders
- Uses conceptual and logical views to support understanding and alignment
- Frames discussions in terms of outcomes, risks, and implications
Stakeholder leadership
- Builds trusted relationships across business, delivery, and technology
- Facilitates constructive architectural discussions and informed decisions
- Navigates competing priorities pragmatically
Influence & collaboration
- Influences through credibility and evidence rather than authority
- Works effectively across federated teams
- Supports Solution and Lead Architects through guidance and coaching
Professional integrity
- Makes risks and trade-offs explicit
- Acts transparently and ethically
- Takes accountability for architectural quality and consistency
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE:
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- TOGAF, OpenCA, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred but not required.
Required Professional Experience
Architectural and technical knowledge
- Broad understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, including applications, integration, data, cloud, and security
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns at organizational scale
- Understanding of how technology enables business capabilities and value streams
- Ability to bridge architectural strategy with practical delivery execution through hands-on technical acumen
- Working knowledge of enterprise repositories and architecture artefacts (e.g., ADS views, roadmaps, transition architectures) sufficient to curate and assure quality and guide usage, not to perform administrative ownership
Experience
- 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 opportunities for reuse
- Experience influencing stakeholders and contributing to governance and decision forums
- Experience operating within enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks
ROLE BOUNDARIES & ESCALATION:
- This role does not act as the final technical arbiter for enterprise-wide decisions
- This role does not have people management accountability
- High-impact or unresolved architectural issues are escalated to the Principal Architect
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