JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title Senior Solution Architect Reports To (Title) VP, Architecture Chapter

Organisation Unit Group IT Location Dubai, UAE

1. Organisation Unit Purpose (why does the unit exist? What are the results the unit is expected to deliver?)
The unit is responsible for building, implementing and enforcing common structures and guidelines for enterprise architecture and
solutions practices, standards, emerged patterns and technologies in order to enable world-class solutions delivery and build
resilient, agile and secured architecture landscape aligned with Company strategy.
Achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering architecture solutions that provide exceptional business value to
internal users and Client’s customers as well as ensuring common architectural standards across the Group. The unit maintains all
architectural blueprints and architects working in agile, platform, Infrastructure & data teams across Group IT.
2. Job Purpose (Why does the job exist? What is the unique contribution made by the job holder?)
The Senior Solution Architect plays a significant role in the solution definition, implementation and governance of the overall
solution implementation as per the best practices, architecture standard guidelines and reference architecture. The Senior solution
architect may be deployed permanently or temporarily as part of agile squads to facilitate agile delivery as well as may be deployed
permanently or temporarily as part of platform teams operate in waterfall delivery mode. Both deployment models will demand
from the senior solution architect to work closely with the software engineers, testers, other architects, platform owners and/ or
squad members in order to define and execute resilient, reusable, secured, scalable and highly performing solution architecture
that meets platform owners’ expectations in line with the architecture governance framework, technology roadmap and best
practices.

The successful candidate will perform work that involve close interactions and technical guidance in multiple functional areas such
as software development, testing, UX/ UI, different squads and architects in the organization in addition to external parties such as
consultants or solution/ technology vendors. This individual will also seek to ensure the optimum utilization of existing technology,
promote open standards, cost effectiveness and resilience as per the enterprise architecture guiding principles.
3. Job Content (Describe the key results delivered by the job holder, how they are measured and the tasks performed to achieve the
results?)
Key Results Performance Measures Main Tasks
 Understand the business requirements in order to articulate
thoughtful solutions taking into considerations all functional and
non-functional requirements into consideration in line with the
reference architecture and technology roadmap
 Drives end-to-end solution development
 Definition and governance of an effective solution
implementation promotes innovation, open standards & cost
effectiveness in support of the organizational goals, objectives
1. Technology solution - Meeting business units/
and strategic requirements.
articulation and platform owners
 Analyzes different patterns and trends to propose the best fit to
definition requirements and roadmap
meet the business requirements and as per the architecture
governance framework and technology roadmap.
 Provide consultancy and support to business units/ platform
owners in identifying and implementing effective solutions.
 Act as a technical advisor to the platform owners, squad members
and software engineers throughout the lifecycle of the solution
definition and estimation.
 Maintain a high awareness of technology and industry trends.
 Ensure an open dialog with other organization’s architects &
- Solutions alignment Enterprise Architecture to maintain a constant alignment and
2. Ensure the alignment
across different promote synergies.
of the information,
architecture domains while  Proactively promote collaborations with other architects (Data,
data, technology &
meeting business technical, security & solutions) in order to ensure the right
business architectures
objectives and priorities alignment and leverage of existing technology, solutions design
and deployment patterns
3. Solution governance - Number of dispensations and  Responsible for the overall solution design and ensure its
and documentation Alignment to the reference implementation governance as per the architecture governance
architecture framework and technology roadmap.
 Ensure the governance and adherence to all defined Enterprise
Architecture standards, quality measures, functional & non-
functional requirements.
 - Well informed stakeholders
 Promote and ensure the adherence to Enterprise Architecture
about the architectural
guiding principles throughout the lifecycle of the solution
standard practices and
definition & implementation.
guidelines
 Define, model and maintain the articulated solutions in proper
- Up-to-date and accessible
documentations and standard repository as per the Enterprise
blueprints
Architecture guidelines.
- Reduces number of critical or  Provide technical consultancy to different IT and business
business disrupting stakeholders in technology best practices and problems analysis
performance, functionality & in technology solutions.
security incidents  Propose architectural enhancements in order to realize security,
agility, performance and cost effectiveness.
4. Maintain resilient,
 Maximize the leverage on existing technology capabilities to
agile and secured
meet the business requirements.
architecture landscape
- Reduced time to market/  Promote resilient, secured and cost effective design, deployment
time to value and cost for IT and integration patterns.
solutions  Present, justify and properly document the introduction of new
technology, design, integration or deployment pattern as per the
enterprise architecture governance framework
Interface (Int/Ext) Reason Committee Reason
Solution design
Business units/
Articulate and define technology solutions. forums/ Scrum
Platform owners
meetings/
Internal & external Ensuring regulatory and audit requirements are attended and
Auditors addressed as part of the solutions definition and implementations.
Ensuring the solutions and their implementations aligned with
Group Risk
Group risk requirements and business continuity practices.
Interaction with Group IT technology heads and architects for
Group IT knowledge sharing, find synergies, explore new trends and TBD
technology or analyze existing solutions/ technology
External
Inspired by best practices and innovative solutions/ technology.
communities and
Analyze vendors solutions and assess their fitness within Client’s TBD
world class/ model
eco-system, standards and technology roadmap
organizations
6. Problems & Decisions ( State problems solved and decisions made on a regular basis by the job holder and the desired outcomes
of actions)
Problems and Decision Desired Outcome
Adherence to the reference architecture and guiding
Identification & introduction of new technology solution
principals
Ensure the minimum disruption to the overall architecture
Non-standard tactical or emerged solutions/ patterns to meet
before proceeding to a long term solution or amend the
immediate business requirements
reference architecture as per the governance framework
7. Job Dimensions (a) List of Annual Profit/revenue/cost/volumes/portfolio etc. directly controlled or influenced by the job holder
(b) Total number of employees managed (directly and indirectly) by job holder (c) Any other key aspects relevant to the job e.g.
markets covered, products managed
Job Dimension Value/Description Job Dimension Value/Description
Management of the technology solutions, their
 More than 120
integration and deployment patterns as per the
business application
reference architecture

8. Person Specifications (required to carry out the job, not what the current or recommended incumbent possesses)
Desirable or
Specifications Description of Knowledge / Skill etc.
Essential
 Essential
A. Education Master or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management or
 General related field
 Professional Enterprise Architecture certifications such as TOGAF or other
Desirable
 More than 15 years of experience in information technology where mostly spent in
solutions definition, implementation and architecture.
 More than 6 years of experience in software development/ systems designs. Essential
Essential
 Experienced in different integration patterns, tools, technology & trends.
Essential
 Experienced in Microservices and SOA principals, guidelines and supporting
B. Experiences Essential
technology.
(Years & Type) Essential
 Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server
 Industry Essential
systems.
 Regional Essential
 Experiences in cloud native principals, designs and deployments.
 Functional Essential
 Experienced in 12-factor app principals.
Essential
 Experience in applying proven architecture design methodologies and tools.
Essential
 Wide experience in developing customer-centric solutions. Essential
 Wide experience in developing critical, high resilient and secured solutions.
 Experienced in working with different open sourced technology.
 Comprehensive knowledge and outstanding technical skills of software designs,
data flow/ analytics and different integration solutions.
 Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
 Demonstrate exceptional technical skills across applications, information
processing and integration domains. Essential
 Experienced in development lifecycle and different software development Essential
technology, frameworks and coding standards. Essential
Essential
 Ability to challenge the conventional wisdom regarding technology trends.
Essential
 Ability to understand the long term and short term perspectives of a solution.
Essential
 Ability to assess and analyze the wide enterprise impact of a solution.
C. Knowledge & Essential
 Ability to comprehend and articulate solutions based on events driven computing
Skills Essential
 Knowledge of systems, components and architectural principles and practices
 Technical Essential
followed in distributed computing architecture
 Managerial Essential
 Knowledge of key integration patterns and tools such as event based, messaging,
Essential
ETL, ESB & microservices based integration.
Essential
 Knowledge of best practice API development, deployment, governance and Essential
management practices. Essential
 Strong understanding of technology trends and their application in Financial Desirable
Services.
 Comfortable with ambiguity and promote innovative.
 Knowledge of different cloud deployment models and cloud taxonomies.
 Knowledge of data processing architecture involving different streaming and
batch processing techniques