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Senior Data Architect
M-Pesa Africa (Safaricom)
Posted 4 months agoNairobi, Kenya
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Information Technology
Job Description
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.
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Proven track record designing enterprise-scale data platforms in financial services, fintech, or telecommunications.
- Deep expertise in data modelling for both OLTP and OLAP systems.
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and tools (DAMA-DMBOK, Apache Atlas, Collibra)
- Experience with streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka in high-throughput transactional environments.
Responsibilities
- Drive the transition to modern data architectures including data mesh, data lakehouse, and event-driven patterns.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, and Market teams to ensure data architectures meet local regulatory obligations.
- Design and govern streaming and CDC pipelines using Apache Kafka and Oracle GoldenGate.
- Leadership: Serve as the senior data architecture voice in Architecture Review Boards.
- Mentor mid-level data engineers and architects across markets.
- Define and enforce data modelling standards, data flow patterns, and integration architecture for real-time and batch processing pipelines.
- Lead architecture design for data platforms supporting payment rails, API analytics, fraud and AML detection, and regulatory reporting.
- Define data classification, lineage, and cataloguing standards, ensuring traceability from source systems through to consumption layers.
How to Apply
Apply through the Safaricom/M-Pesa Africa career portal.
