Enterprise Architect

Department: DT & IT Strategic Planning & GovernanceReports To: Sr. Manager Digital & IT Strategic Planning and GovernanceKey AccountabilitiesDesign and evolve the Enterprise Architecture across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security domains, ensuring a scalable, integrated, and future-ready digital landscape, with AI capabilities embedded where they add business value.Drive simplification, standardization, and modernization of the enterprise technology landscape by leading application rationalization, legacy modernization, platform and tool standardization, cloud adoption, and integration across entities, improving cost efficiency, resilience, and delivery speed.Define and govern enterprise roadmaps and migration plans from the current heterogeneous environment to the target state, balancing business priorities, delivery constraints, security, and risk.Provide enterprise-wide architectural governance and leadership, translating business and digital requirements into coherent solutions, overseeing demand prioritization, ensuring compatibility and alignment across initiatives, and resolving cross-domain or systemic issues.Enable data, analytics, and AI as part of the digital foundation, in close collaboration with the AI CoE and Information Security, ensuring responsible governance, security, and compliance without creating fragmentation.Support strategic decision-making by maintaining clear architecture visibility (principles, standards, repositories, and roadmaps), producing executive-level architecture artifacts, and advising senior leadership on emerging technologies and their business impact.Additional ResponsibilitiesTranslate business and digital requirements into enterprise-wide architectural solutions and technology choices.Conduct architecture assessments to ensure continuous alignment between business strategy, digital & IT strategy, and transformation objectives.Govern compatibility and integration across applications, data, and platforms; identify structural gaps and improvement opportunities.Monitor enterprise architecture health and intervene to resolve systemic or cross-domain issues.Collaborate closely with business, digital, IT, security, and AI stakeholders to ensure alignment and execution.Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and reference architectures.Produce clear, high-quality architecture artifacts (e.g., diagrams, blueprints, roadmaps, heatmaps) for both executive and delivery audiences.Provide architectural leadership and hands-on guidance for major digital & IT programs.Lead the implementation and ongoing maintenance of an Enterprise Architecture repository/tool to ensure transparency, traceability, and decision support.ExperienceMinimum of 12 years of overall IT experience, with 7+ years in Enterprise Architecture leading roleSignificant hands-on experience across enterprise technology domains, including software development and programming, cloud and cloud-native architectures (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), data sourcing, enterprise data management, data modeling and analytics platforms, and AI-enabled solutions such as machine learning, advanced analytics, automation, and generative AI. Experience also includes application development and integration, systems and solution architecture, infrastructure operations and platform engineering, auditing and compliance, technology risk management, enterprise-scale digital and IoT solutions.Demonstrated ability to apply cross-domain technical experience to enterprise-level architecture design, analysis, and decision-making.Experience working in the UAE or Middle East region is preferred, with understanding of regional regulatory, security, and operational environments.EducationBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related technical discipline is required. Master's Degree is a strong advantage.Relevant certifications is a plus (e.g., ITIL Master, TOGAF 9, Azure Cloud Architecture, ITIL, or data/AI-related certifications)Additional certifications or formal training in AI, data governance, cloud architecture, or architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX) are an asset.Key SkillsKnowledge in TOGAF, & Zachman architecture frameworksKnowledge in SAP S/4 Hana ERP, SAP cloud platformsProject ManagementProficiency in English language, Arabic a plus#J-18808-Ljbffr