Enterprise Architect

Role amp responsibilities Job title Enterprise Architect Department Engineering Department Job Location Abu Dhabi UAE

JOB PURPOSE The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for defining governing and evolving the enterprise technology strategy target architecture and engineering architecture standards across the organization The role establishes enterprise-wide reference architectures technology roadmaps architecture principles and governance practices across multiple technology stacks including Java NET and Python as well as cloud integration data security and platform engineering domains The Enterprise Architect will work closely with engineering leadership solution architects product Dev Ops QA security data vendors and business stakeholders to ensure technology investments are scalable secure resilient cost-effective and aligned with business strategy and long-term platform modernization goals

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision
• target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmap for the engineering department
• Establish architecture principles standards patterns and reference architectures across application integration data infrastructure cloud security and observability domains
• Govern enterprise system designs across multiple technology stacks including Java Spring Boot NET NET Core C Python FastAPI Django Flask and related ecosystem technologies
• Lead architecture governance forums design review boards and technical decision-making processes to ensure consistency quality and strategic alignment across engineering initiatives
• Partner with solution architects and engineering leads to review solution blueprints HLD LLD documents C4 models UML diagrams deployment views integration flows and API specifications
• Define enterprise standards for microservices modular architecture service-oriented architecture event-driven architecture API-led integration and domain-driven design
• Develop enterprise cloud architecture strategy across Azure AWS and GCP covering landing zones network patterns identity compute storage databases containers Kubernetes serverless and managed services
• Drive platform modernization legacy transformation cloud migration re-platforming refactoring and technical debt reduction programs across products and engineering platforms
• Define enterprise integration architecture including API gateways service mesh event streaming message queues ETL ELT pipelines third-party integrations and partner connectivity
• Guide data architecture decisions covering relational databases No
  
  SQL caching search data pipelines reporting master data data governance and analytical workloads
• Define secure-by-design architecture standards covering IAM OAuth2 OIDC SSO Azure AD Entra  management encryption compliance auditability and secure API design
• Establish non-functional requirement standards for scalability performance resilience high availability disaster recovery observability maintainability operability and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and platform teams to define enterprise CI CD infrastructure as code environment strategy release governance monitoring logging tracing and operational readiness practices
• Evaluate and recommend enterprise technology platforms frameworks tools and vendors through trade-off analysis POCs prototypes cost assessment and risk evaluation
• Create architecture decision records technology selection guidelines lifecycle standards deprecation plans and risk mitigation plans for complex enterprise initiatives
• Support engineering leadership in portfolio planning capability mapping technology investment prioritization capacity planning and cross-team dependency management
• Provide architecture-level guidance for critical production performance reliability scalability security and integration issues across enterprise systems
• Mentor solution architects technical leads and senior engineers on system design enterprise architecture practices documentation quality engineering standards and design reviews
• Represent engineering architecture in discussions with executive leadership business stakeholders vendors clients and external partners
• Maintain enterprise architecture repositories standards roadmaps and governance documentation in Confluence or similar platforms

• Minimum Qualifications:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum Experience:
  
  15+ years of relevant technology experience, including hands-on engineering background and 7+ years in architecture, enterprise architecture, solution design or senior technical leadership roles.
• Preferred candidate profile Strong enterprise architecture experience across complex engineering organizations, large-scale platforms, digital products and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, reference architectures,…