Senior Data Architect

M-PESA Africa is Africa's largest fintech providing financial services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses, with transactions of over $1.2 billion a day across 8 countries. We are looking for a Senior Data Architect to design, govern, and evolve our enterprise data landscape across our markets. Operating at the intersection of mobile money, payments infrastructure, AI, and analytics, you will set the architectural standards and strategic direction for how data flows, is governed, and generates value across M-PESA's platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence across engineering, product, compliance, and group-level stakeholders. Data Architecture and Strategy: Own the enterprise data architecture across M-PESA Africa's multi-market environment, spanning transactional, operational, analytical, and AI/ML data domains. Data Governance and Standards: Establish and champion enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and master data management (MDM) policies across all six markets. Integration and Platform Architecture: Architect data integration patterns between M-PESA core systems, third-party platforms and analytics/AI layers. AI and Analytics Enablement: Design data architectures that underpin AI/ML use cases including transaction monitoring, watchlist screening, customer intelligence, and predictive analytics. Experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related technical disciplines, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead capacity. Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and big data technologies (Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift) Proficiency in data integration patterns: ETL/ELT, Change Data Capture (CDC), event streaming, and API-driven data exchange.