Sr. Specialist Business

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The Senior Solution Architect owns the architecture, design standards, delivery practices, and governance of the company’s enterprise business applications. The role sets how solutions are designed, built, deployed, and integrated — ensuring they are secure, scalable, well-governed, and reliably delivered into production. The Enterprise Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) is a core platform within the architect’s portfolio.

The role provides technical direction across the application landscape: it defines reference architectures and CI/CD and deployment standards, governs solution designs (internal and vendor), and ensures changes meet security, records, and data-governance requirements.

The position will act in accordance with the OQEP’s Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, as well as, policies, guidelines, and international standards, supported by an IT Technology platform, QHSE & Energy Management System requirements standards, Omani’s government & other legal justifications, and best international practices in consonance with national objectives.

• Define and maintain reference architectures, solution designs, integration designs, and data-flow diagrams for the enterprise application portfolio, including EDRMS.
• Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions, selecting appropriate patterns and technologies.
• Provide hands‑on design, prototyping, and proof‑of‑concept work to validate architecture decisions and de‑risk delivery.

• Define, maintain, and enforce solution‑design, coding, and integration standards and technical guardrails across applications.
• Operate design‑authority / solution‑review gates: review and approve internal and vendor technical designs against architecture, security, and data‑governance principles.
• Maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and ensure changes follow change‑management, access‑control, audit, and IT‑governance requirements; provide architecture input to audits and assurance reviews.

• Define the CI/CD strategy and standards (e.g. Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions) covering source control, branching, automated build/test, code quality, and artifact management.
• Set expectations for automated testing and security scanning (SAST/DAST/dependency) within pipelines, and govern adherence across teams and vendors.
• Guide engineers and vendors in implementing pipelines to the agreed standard, and review delivery practices for quality and consistency.

• Own deployment architecture and environment strategy (development, test, staging, production), including environment promotion and configuration management.
• Define release governance — deployment runbooks, rollback/back‑out plans, and post‑deployment verification — and oversee controlled releases of significant changes.
• Coordinate change windows and cutovers with IT Operations, Infrastructure, Database, Cybersecurity, and vendor teams to protect availability and performance.
• Own the architecture and roadmap of the EDRMS platform (e.g. Open Text Documentum, D2, Content Server, or similar) as a core managed platform.
• Design document‑management workflows, metadata models, taxonomy, classification, retention rules, access controls, and integration points, ensuring records compliance and data quality.
• Direct migration, indexing, metadata improvement, OCR, and search‑optimisation activities, working with specialist engineers and vendors for deep configuration and build.
• Design secure, resilient integrations between EDRMS / business applications and ERP (e.g. SAP), SharePoint/M365, databases, portals, and identity‑management systems using APIs, web services, and connectors.
• Define standards for authentication, error handling, monitoring, and data quality across integrations.
• Act as technical authority and escalation point for complex incidents, performance problems, and integration issues, ensuring solutions are…