Location: Client Premises, Dubai, UAE
Salary: AED 15,000 to 18,000 per month
Benefits: Work visa, air tickets, medical insurance, gratuity, paid time off
Experience Required: Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience
Reference: FZ-AE-284
Cinergie Digital is seeking a highly experienced Senior Technical Architect to lead enterprise-scale solution design across complex, mission-critical environments. This role demands deep architectural expertise, strong stakeholder leadership, and the ability to guide engineering teams in delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native applications. Aviation technology experience will be a major plus.
Solution Architecture & Design
- Own end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale systems, ensuring all designs are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise technology roadmaps.
- Define and recommend technology stacks, design patterns, integration models, and deployment strategies.
- Evaluate current system landscapes and recommend modernization strategies leveraging microservices, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native frameworks.
- Review and approve application designs, ensuring alignment with architectural guardrails, performance benchmarks, and best practices.
Cloud, Integration & Modern Application Architecture
- Architect distributed systems using microservices, serverless technologies, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and event-driven workflows.
- Design system integrations using RESTful APIs, GraphQL, asynchronous messaging, message queues, and event streaming platforms.
- Ensure solutions are cloud-ready and optimized for AWS/Azure/GCP environments, including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Contribute to enterprise integration strategies using asynchronous communication models and event-based architectures (EDA).
Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Embed security-by-design principles into all solutions, ensuring secure coding, IAM enforcement, and API security best practices.
- Continuously assess emerging threats and risks and define mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate, select, and integrate security technologies and tools across the SDLC.
RFP, Product Evaluation & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead technical evaluation of third-party SaaS platforms, tools, and enterprise applications.
- Contribute to RFP processes by assessing architectural fit, integration complexity, security impact, and long-term scalability.
- Work with Business Analysts to support business case preparation, identifying high-level dependencies and architectural considerations.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentor engineering teams on architecture principles, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate heavily with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure seamless execution.
- Provide architectural oversight across all SDLC phases, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with business outcomes.
- Maintain and continuously evolve the solution architecture roadmap for assigned business domains.
Required Technical / Core Skills
- 8+ years as a Solution Architect, Principal Engineer, or Lead Engineer in enterprise-scale application environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, particularly in microservices, serverless, and cloud-native deployments.
- Deep knowledge of modern architecture patterns microservices, event-driven architecture, REST APIs, asynchronous communication, distributed systems.
- Expertise in designing secure, scalable microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration platforms.
- Proficiency with integration patterns: REST, GraphQL, messaging queues, event-streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
- Experience with CQRS, event sourcing, saga patterns, and workflow orchestration.
- Strong understanding of relational, NoSQL, and data-streaming databases.
- Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated deployments.
- Strong application security knowledge including IAM, API security, OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
- Proven experience in SaaS product evaluation, third-party integration, and enterprise solution selection.
- Ability to mentor teams, influence architectural decisions, and communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
- Experience in Agile and multicultural, cross-functional environments.
- Aviation/Airline technology experience is strongly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience architecting solutions for mission-critical systems in aviation, travel, transport, or similar high-availability domains.
- Certifications in AWS/Azure/GCP architecture.
- Familiarity with enterprise integration platforms, API gateways, and messaging ecosystems.
