Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, and ICT solutions. Familiarity with TOGAF standards and ArchiMate stencils is expected. Experience with cloud, API-first, and event-driven systems, as well as AI, J2EE, .NET, UNIX, SQL, workflow, mobility, cloud, and web services is necessary. Knowledge of open-source products, design patterns, and object-oriented programming is required.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
IT - Software & Web Development
Company Industry
Software & Internet Services
Job purpose
• To provide expertise in designing and maintaining solution architecture.
• Participate in enhancing the organization enterprise architecture as per business requirements and develop/maintain relevant artifacts.
• Enhance the current ICT solutions based on assessment of existing, future demand and industry standards/trends.
• Ensure that all new implementations are in compliance with the organization standards (technical and security).
• Work together with IT leadership to deliver an ICT solution strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals and priorities.
• Ensure in collaboration with design specialists that the design has been fully considered for both network and infrastructure implications.
• Introduce new solutions (systems or technologies) through proper assessment of requirements and development of supporting justification.
• Work with business representatives to develop non-functional requirements.
• Develop technical specification for vendor engagement as part of a procurement process. Represent the organization on procurement matters for all technical requirements.
• Participate in project related activities ensuring that solutions are implemented according to agreed design.
• Develop standards and guides in relation to architecture activities.
• Share expertise with the team and support during major critical incidents and contribute service performance and capacity improvement.
Key activities, responsibility & accountability
Activities and responsibilities:
• Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business or functional areas. Should be familiar with TOGAF standards and ArchiMate stencils while preparing models and diagrams.
• Produces detailed component specifications, design diagrams and translates these into detailed design documents for implementation. Expected to prepare standard technical diagrams namely solution diagram, data dissemination diagram, deployment diagram to name few and need to prepare high level design documents for solutions, platforms and technology platform.
• Architect and oversee the integration of cloud, API-first and event driven systems ensuring interoperability across business domains. Expected to have in-depth ideas about different cloud deployment models (namely SaaS, IaaS, PaaS etc.) and to understand the impact on existing landscape.
• Should be well versed with recent developments on artificial intelligence (AI) domain and how different technical components are interrelated for solution design.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly. Technical expertise should cover architecture layers namely business, data, application, integration, infrastructure (including network) and security.
• Support the business applications with a broad range of standard technologies including J2EE, .NET, UNIX, SQL, workflow, mobility, cloud and web services is required for day to day activities.
• Should be aware of open-source products and frameworks and in-depth knowledge of different design patterns, architecture patterns. Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and expert hands-on knowledge of multi-tier software development. Knowledge of SAP platform will be a plus.
• Support in capturing, prioritizing, market and environmental trends, business strategies, objectives, and identifying the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Support in conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases.
Professional certifications
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Experience
5 to 8 years of relevant experience
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