Manager Solutions Architecture

Masdr provides integrated digital data and business solutions to public and private sector organizations, enabling operational efficiency, enhanced customer experience, data-driven decision-making, and compliance with regulatory and cybersecurity requirements through advanced digital technologies and enterprise platforms.

To manage and oversee solution architecture activities by translating approved product and business requirements into scalable, secure, and technically feasible solution designs. The role ensures alignment with Masdr’s architecture standards, product strategy, platform capabilities, security requirements, and delivery objectives, while supporting effective technical requirements definition, architecture governance, and solution readiness throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Ensure effective cascading of the departmental strategy into sectional business plans to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing departmental strategies.

• Manage the effective achievement of assigned objectives through the leadership of the section by setting of individual objectives, managing performance, developing and motivating staff to maximize sectional performance.
• Lead the talent development initiatives for the assigned section, collaborating with divisional experts and thereby ensure the availability of talent to fit business requirements.

• Manage the preparation and recommend the sectional budget and monitor financial performance versus the budget while ensuring all sectional activities are conducted in line with the approved guidelines.
• Manage and ensure effective implementation of xx (departmental NOT Sectional) departmental policies, procedures and controls covering all areas of assigned sectional activity so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements, fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.

• Lead the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement and cost reduction.

• Ensure that all sectional reports are prepared timely and accurately and meet Masdr requirements, policies and quality standards.

• Define target-state and transition architectures, technology roadmaps, modernization priorities and architecture principles.
• Assess application disposition, dependencies, technical debt, lifecycle, strategic technologies and reuse opportunities.
• Manage the development of end-to-end solution architecture concepts based on approved product and business requirements.
• Lead and oversee the translation business and product needs into high-level solution structures, components, integrations, data flows, and service interactions.
• Ensure solution designs are scalable, modular, secure, and aligned with Masdr’s enterprise and platform architecture standards.
• Validate proposed solutions against customer needs, technical feasibility, delivery constraints, and operational requirements.
• Ensure solution architecture outputs are complete, documented, and ready to support downstream engineering and delivery activities.
• Support technical discussions with business, product, engineering, and external partners to clarify solution scope, assumptions, and dependencies.

• Lead Architecture design workshops, decisions, exceptions, technical risk acceptance, standards compliance and architecture assurance.
• Ensure definition and adoption of reference architectures, reusable patterns, secure coding/design standards, quality gates and engineering guardrails.
• Oversee the translation of approved solution concepts into clear functional and non-functional technical requirements.
• Ensure technical requirements address integration, performance, security, availability, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Review solution architecture deliverables to ensure adherence to…