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Senior Manager IT Applications & Asset Management
KCB Bank Kenya · Kenya
Full Time · On-site · Lead · Posted Oct 2026 | closes 30 Oct 2026
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Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • BAU Support Leadership: Provide operational leadership for the day-to-day support of Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications. Ensure service availability and stability through effective monitoring, incident and problem management, service-request fulfilment, change control, vendor coordination, support procedures, capacity planning and timely escalation, in line with agreed service levels and divisional policy.
  • Team Management: Plan, direct, coordinate and review the work of the Business Applications Support team. Allocate activities and projects, assess work methods and outcomes, and resolve operational or service-delivery issues.
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive system enhancements, automation, process improvements and user training across Bancassurance and Investment Banking applications to strengthen operational efficiency, controls and customer service.
  • Project and Integration Leadership: Lead technical delivery for projects affecting Bancassurance, Investment Banking, Custody and Wealth Management applications, including integrations with core banking, digital, finance and third-party systems.
  • Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive application documentation, including support procedures, project and incident reports, process and user manuals, presentations, technical plans, integration specifications and service-performance reports.
  • Capability Development: Build team capability in Bancassurance and Investment Banking application support through workforce planning, coaching, knowledge transfer, targeted training, performance management and staff engagement.
  • Resilience and Continuity: Develop and maintain business-continuity, disaster-recovery, monitoring and support procedures that minimise downtime and safeguard the availability, integrity and resilience of Bancassurance and Investment Banking services.
  • Testing and Quality Assurance: Define and oversee testing methods for application changes, integrations, upgrades and fixes. Verify compliance with functional, security, performance and quality standards, and monitor defects through to resolution.
  • Governance and Compliance: Review proposed software, vendor solutions and integrations to confirm compliance with architecture, security, regulatory, operational-risk and quality-assurance standards before acquisition or implementation.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

  1. Academic & Professional
Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type [4] Education  Bachelor’s degree Computer Science or Information Technology or Computer/Electronics Engineering RQ Master’s degree Management / IT AA Professional Qualifications MCP/MCSA/MCSE / MCITP / ITIL / RedHat RQ LINUX/UNIX Administration AA Cloud Management (Azure, AWS, OCI) AA Project Management (PMP, SCRUM, AGILE) AA Database Management AA
  1. Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required

6

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type [5] Operational and technical characteristics of a variety of payment platforms including Bancassurance, Investment and Wealth Banking and 3 rd Party Integrations 6 ES Understanding of Financial, Insurance, Wealth and Investment Services regulatory and audit regimen  6 ES Basic budgeting, contracting, purchasing practices, policies and procedures 3 DS Methods and techniques used in the installation, administration, monitoring, upgrading and problem resolution of central application software systems 3 DS Principles of supervision and training 3 DS Principles and procedures of quality assurance and security related to complex on payment systems and applications 3 DS Principles and practices of application development and troubleshooting 3 DS Effective analysis, communication, presentation and customer relationship skills 3 DS Principles and practices of project management and administration 2 DE Knowledge of relevant industry (banking) practise with experience on SOAP, Restful and Files integrations 6 ES Principles of contract negotiation and administration 2 DE