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IAM Enterprise Architect (AI) at Standard Chartered Bank Kenya

Standard Chartered Kenya, whose official name is Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Limited, but is sometimes referred to as Stanchart Kenya, is a commercial bank in Kenya.

Responsibilities or duties

We are seeking an accomplished and highly delivery driven and strategic thinking IAM Enterprise Architect with experience in securing AI identities to join our Threats, Architecture and Controls within the Identity & Access Management organization.

The IAM Enterprise Architect will be responsible for defining the strategic vision, architectural patterns, and control frameworks for managing identities in an AI-drive ecosystem. This includes securing the “Human-to-AI” interface, managing the identities of autonomous AI agents, and ensuring theat AI model training and inference processes adhere to Zero Trust Principles.

The IAM Enterprise Architect will ensure the tactical and strategic plans and solutions are continuously strengthen to respond to the increasing threats and changing sophistication in attack tactics while keeping up with the growth and changes of business.

The IAM Enterprise Architect will bridge the gap between business priorities, cybersecurity policies, and technical delivery teams to deliver next-generation cyber defences against identity threats to protect our Customers.

The successful candidate will provide strong technical security direction for identity access controls and capabilities for securing identities in Enterprise AI Solution, and lead and partner with engineers, architects, compliance teams, and business stakeholders to deliver against the capabilities roadmap, enhance user experience, and align with regulatory and cybersecurity standards. The role demands a strong awareness of the cyber threat landscape and understanding of cyber threat actors and their attack tactics, identity access controls, and AI technologies and capabilities. This individual will drive delivery health, ensure achievement of OKRs, and shape the future of IAM solutions, reporting directly to the Head of IAM Threats Architecture and Controls.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Design and Develop granular access control capabilities for Large Language Models, Vector Databases, Agentic Agents, and AI training environments,
• Architect and implement specialised solutions such as Just-in-Time access, Attribute based Access Control for AI agents, automated secret rotation, and identity-aware gateways for AI workloads.
• Define how identity is managed throughout AI lifecycle, from data ingestion, model deployment, agent deployment to human-to-agent/model use case.
• Align AI-specific identity threats with framework like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST AI Risk Management frameworks.
• Develop and define a multi-year strategy for identity access controls and capabilities to secure AI, products vision roadmap and KPIs that aligned with the Business Goals
• Act as the expert in identity threats in AI and take ownership of the securing AI identity controls and solutions.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams to ensure business and technical objectives and requirements are well communicated and understood.
• Stay relevant on matters such as cyber threat landscape, emerging threats, active threat campaigns and emerging identity access control technologies.
• Create and update related IAM policies, standards, controls and solutions documents.
• Partner with the Bank Security Architects and Risk Teams to ensure alignment with Enterprise Security approach and Regulatory standards.
• Partner with the Bank Analytics and Strategy teams to translate insights into execution roadmaps.
• Enable Compliance & Audit Readiness Central audit trail for identity access controls and identity threats detection response controls to aligned with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously identify opportunities for cost optimization, increase efficiency and process simplification.

Business

• Facilitate integration of business priorities and strategic objectives into delivery roadmaps.
• Translate technical requirements into business value statements for leadership stakeholders.
• Ensure that processes are optimized for transparency, accountability, user experience and continuous improvement.
• Partner with business owners to validate outcomes and benefits realization.
• Work closely with ICS and Stakeholders to ensure that requirements are in line with the bank’s strategy
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends
• Engage with third-party vendors as appropriate for the project

Processes

• Map, analyse, and optimize end-to-end business processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and user experience.
• Identify automation and digital enablement opportunities (e.g., workflow, integration, self-service).
• Partner with process owners, operations, and compliance teams to ensure business alignment.
• Successful grooming of delivery backlog facilitating planning ceremonies with clear, aligned outcomes.
• Stakeholder alignment score (measured via feedback from Product Owners & leadership).

Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Act as the primary liaison between business, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• Communicate product performance, risks, and roadmap to executive stakeholders and governance forums.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on adoption plans, investment needs, and decommissioning of legacy platforms.
• Create an environment of trust, open communication, and cross-functional alignment across business, technology, and control functions.
• Collaborate closely with business units, Scrum Masters, and development teams to ensure successful sprint outcomes.
• Provide technical security direction for Identity Access Management for AI to a team of developers and engineers, in partnership with architects

Risk Management

• Establish and maintain a strong governance framework, covering delivery tracking, escalation management, and executive reporting.
• Proactively identify and manage program-level risks, dependencies, and interlocks.
• Ensure adherence to ICS governance standards and contribute to shaping internal audit and risk processes.
• Ensures the project follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their domain.
• Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain.

Responsibilities

Governance

• Embed a strong compliance and regulatory-first mindset into program delivery for IAM initiatives.
• Ensure that program decisions and outcomes align with legal, regulatory, and business conduct requirements.
• Act as a role model for integrity, ethics, and responsible delivery practices.
• Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., SCB Governance Standards, ESDLC etc.).

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND , Professional Certificate

Experience needed

Experience: 15 years

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

Job Field: Data, Business Analysis and AI , ICT / Computer

Key stakeholders: See the consolidated list of responsi

• Design and Develop granular access control capabilities for Large Language Models, Vector Databases, Agentic Agents, and AI training environments,
• Architect and implement specialised solutions such as Just-in-Time access, Attribute based Access Control for AI agents, automated secret rotation, and identity-aware gateways for AI workloads.
• Define how identity is managed throughout AI lifecycle, from data ingestion, model deployment, agent deployment to human-to-agent/model use case.
• Align AI-specific identity threats with framework like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST AI Risk Management frameworks.
• Develop and define a multi-year strategy for identity access controls and capabilities to secure AI, products vision roadmap and KPIs that aligned with the Business Goals
• Act as the expert in identity threats in AI and take ownership of the securing AI identity controls and solutions.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams to ensure business and technical objectives and requirements are well communicated and understood.
• Stay relevant on matters such as cyber threat landscape, emerging threats, active threat campaigns and emerging identity access control technologies.
• Create and update related IAM policies, standards, controls and solutions documents.
• Partner with the Bank Security Architects and Risk Teams to ensure alignment with Enterprise Security approach and Regulatory standards.
• Partner with the Bank Analytics and Strategy teams to translate insights into execution roadmaps.
• Enable Compliance & Audit Readiness Central audit trail for identity access controls and identity threats detection response controls to aligned with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously identify opportunities for cost optimization, increase efficiency and process simplification.
• Facilitate integration of business priorities and strategic objectives into delivery roadmaps.
• Translate technical requirements into business value statements for leadership stakeholders.
• Ensure that processes are optimized for transparency, accountability, user experience and continuous improvement.
• Partner with business owners to validate outcomes and benefits realization.
• Work closely with ICS and Stakeholders to ensure that requirements are in line with the bank’s strategy
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends
• Engage with third-party vendors as appropriate for the project
• Map, analyse, and optimize end-to-end business processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and user experience.
• Identify automation and digital enablement opportunities (e.g., workflow, integration, self-service).
• Partner with process owners, operations, and compliance teams to ensure business alignment.
• Successful grooming of delivery backlog facilitating planning ceremonies with clear, aligned outcomes.
• Stakeholder alignment score (measured via feedback from Product Owners & leadership).
• Act as the primary liaison between business, cybersecurity, and platform teams.
• Communicate product performance, risks, and roadmap to executive stakeholders and governance forums.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on adoption plans, investment needs, and decommissioning of legacy platforms.
• Create an environment of trust, open communication, and cross-functional alignment across business, technology, and control functions.
• Collaborate closely with business units, Scrum Masters, and development teams to ensure successful sprint outcomes.
• Provide technical security direction for Identity Access Management for AI to a team of developers and engineers, in partnership with architects
• Establish and maintain a strong governance framework, covering delivery tracking, escalation management, and executive reporting.
• Proactively identify and manage program-level risks, dependencies, and interlocks.
• Ensure adherence to ICS governance standards and contribute to shaping internal audit and risk processes.
• Ensures the project follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their domain.
• Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain.
• Embed a strong compliance and regulatory-first mindset into program delivery for IAM initiatives.
• Ensure that program decisions and outcomes align with legal, regulatory, and business conduct requirements.
• Act as a role model for integrity, ethics, and responsible delivery practices.
• Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., SCB Governance Standards, ESDLC etc.).
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

• BA/BSc/HND
• Professional Certificate