Job Title:SELF SERVICE CHANNEL SECURITY ARCHITECT.
Business Area: ICT DEPARTMENT – HEAD OFFICE.
Reports To/Line Manager:HEAD OF SELF SERVICE CHANNEL SYSTEMS.
Full/ part time:FULL TIME.
Language requirements(if applicable):ENGLISH & SWAHILI.
JOB PURPOSE
Establishes and enforces the Security model, technologies and
standards for system architects and designs of all Self Service Channel
(SSC) systems: Internet Banking, Agency banking, ATMs, ATM switch,
Enterprise Service Bus, Integrations with vendors and 3rd party business
partners, Mobile Banking, etc.
To translate business requirements into systems qualities and
thence into repeatable design strategies and patterns that enables those
qualities (e.g. adaptability, scalability, availability,
non-repudiation, reusability, etc.).
Contributes to the enterprise application integration (EAI). This
includes defining the opportunities for integration, selecting the
tools, specifying the shared data & code resources, defining the
interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring the success of said
integration.
MAIN ACCOUNTABILITY OF SELF SERVICE CHANNEL SECURITY ARCHITECT.
SSC Unit Systems Architect
Responsible for the architectural designs of the new and modified
SSC products/solutions/systems and ensure the designs are aligned to the
ICT enterprise future technological and operational strategic roadmap
and architectural designs
Responsible for coordinating the development, implementation and
monitoring of operational and technological strategy objectives in line
with business and companywide strategy. Ensure the Technology and
operating model of back office is aligned to business anticipated growth
and ambitions.
Guides the innovation, transformation and integration teams to
ensure SSC Technologies and operational processes remains relevant and
up-to-date in a cost effective way and achieve high ROI in Technology
and operational processes investments.
An interface between business, SSC and Enterprise Systems
Architect, translating business and customer needs into operational
deliverables covering processes, technology solutions, management
Information and business intelligence data.
Ensure the SSC systems performance objectives are aligned to the business and bank strategic objectives.
Ensure to interpret business strategy and determine innovative SSC solutions supporting strategy implementation.
Design and model solutions for customer innovation and experience
along with similar initiatives variants, i.e. to improve controls, cost
saving, improve efficiency, etc.
Ensure to share decisions’ authority to translate strategies in procedures and programs.
Guide and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types concurrently.
Manage and attain customer expectations and ensure delivery fulfill expectations.
Coordinate all cross-functional activities, represent customers
internally and collaborate with leaders in varied areas on allocation
across projects and resource planning.
Operations
Evaluate business requirements and produce high level solution blue-prints
Compiles or designs architectural models of current / modified and
new systems across the enterprise for use internally and in conjunction
with Technology Partners. The models are of two types:
o Enterprise Models that depict the entire enterprise and its inter-relationships.
o Reference Models that depict recommended & approved
technologies & designs, which can serve as a template for future
projects.
These models cover the following viewpoints:
o API Stack of blessed Open Standards and Proprietary Technologies (expanded OSI 7-Layer Model)
o Application Map
o Data Flow Diagram
o Business Process Models (from the Business Process team)
o Logical & Physical Data Schema
o Hardware Infrastructure Diagram
o Network LAN & VLAN Infrastructure Diagram
o Also, where needed to clarify application requirements, Unified
Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, viz.: Use Case, Class, Package,
Object, Sequence, Collaboration, State-chart, Activity, Component and
Deployment Diagrams.
Establishes the Design Repository and Metadata Repository for
integrating all aspects of these models, and provides oversight of its
use in conjunction with integrated Tool sets.
Perform design reviews for SSC systems. (Note: not code reviews.)
Guide the evaluation of SSC system vendor software targeted for
possible integration into the systems or environment, including
strategic applications, tools, and utilities.
Defines the SSC systems design methodology, development process methodology and best practices.
Surveys external emerging developments, and evangelizes new
technologies, standards and methodologies that will have a positive
impact on the SSC systems bottom-line and quality of service.
Participates in external standards body work that defines SSC systems standards in the health community.
Liaising with the overall Senior Enterprise Systems Architecture and other
department architect specialists to ensure that new and modified products are well designed and secured.
SSC Systems Security Architect
Monitors security guidelines and standards.
Establishes and enforces the Security Policy and Trust Model for
Administrators to follow in delegating and granting application
privileges.
Establishes and enforces the Security Model, technologies and standards for system architects and designers.
Tracks warnings of new types of security threats and assures that the systems in place guard against these threats.
Establishes the systems for discovering, tracking and convicting abusers of security and system integrity.
Performs periodic security audits on existing systems.
Ensures Compliance
Evaluate business requirements and produce high level solution blue-prints
Review and complete responses to business requirements, maximizing
compliance and documenting assumptions (high level solution assumptions
where developments are required or existing solution would need
adaptation to achieve compliance)
Participate in high level estimation of design effort to create requirement specifications for Development personnel;
Guide on the design and creation of deployment and testing tools
e.g. for data migration, interfacing and configuration management;
Validate and monitor data structure changes to maintain deployment tool viability and documentation;
Interface & integration design
Investigate and document integration approaches with third party systems;
Produce technical proof of concepts on new technology
Establish industry , regulatory and external issues which impact
operational risk by engaging with relevant business units, regulators
and Industry bodies (e.g. PCI) and keeping up to date with their
requirements
Ensure that compliance risk is managed by maintaining a compliance
tracker and preparing action plans for exceptions in conjunction with
management
Coordinate the implementation of compliance plans by preparing progress updates, highlighting deviations.
COMPETENCIES
Project management
Process/Operations design and management
People management
Risk management
Report writing
Presentation skills
SSC systems architecture, design & security
SSC systems implementation
SSC systems administration
Understanding of financial sector systems architectures
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
Graduate – Information Systems/Computer science/Computer
engineering, preferably Post-graduate – Information Systems/Computer
science/Computer engineering, MSc or equivalent
Degree or equivalent with focus on Self Service Channel systems architecture & designs
5 years’ experience in ICT area responsible for SSC solutions
design, integration, interfaces and security, preferably 8 years’
experience as a SSC systems architecture, solutions/product designs
& security
Experience in SSC systems architecture
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex issues and concepts in a simple manner
Demonstrated ability and experience to develop and defend technical
solutions architects, design & security recommendations and
budgetary plans
Demonstrated experience working in a deadline-oriented environment managing multiple projects simultaneously
Demonstrated experience and ability to work effectively in a dynamic, collaborative and fast-paced atmosphere
Detailed knowledge of the SSC solutions architecture, data
structures and interfacing/integration capabilities as well as design
processes
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Application Details
NATIONAL MICROFINANCE BANK
HEAD OFFICE - NMB HOUSE
AZIKIWE/JAMHURI STREET
P.O. BOX 9213,
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA
TELEPHONE: +255(0)22 2161000
Email:info@nmbtz.com
Deadline:23/3/2014
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