Architect

• Lead the Architecture & Evolve Platform portfolio covering Architecture & API Standards, Evolve Studio, Shared Experience and Quality Assurance
• Provide product teams with technical direction, reusable capabilities and objective quality evidence
• Own target architecture, domain boundaries, API and data contracts, integration patterns, architecture decision records and developer documentation
• Chair the Architecture Forum and resolve cross-team decisions
• Review significant designs before build and record approved exceptions
• Define Legacy-to-Evolve transition designs and maintain the architecture roadmap
• Own Evolve Studio product and pricing configuration, workflow and underwriting controls, multitenancy and multilingual capabilities
• Deliver tested and documented Studio capabilities, support adoption and resolve Studio code defects
• Own shared frontend foundations, the design system and reusable components across products and channels
• Agree UX and accessibility standards and reduce duplicate frontend builds
• Lead QA strategy, test automation, regression and performance validation
• Publish test results and defects against release criteria, flag blocking risks and verify fixes through retesting
• Lead four squad leads, develop skills and succession, and set performance expectations
• Own the portfolio roadmap, quarterly outcomes and budget
• Assess build-versus-buy decisions and explain costs, dependencies and investment trade-offs to the CTO and ExCo
• Deliver first-90-day assessment, standards, roadmap, quality improvement and resourcing-plan outcomes

Architect jobs in Kenya

Head of Platform – Architecture