Job Purpose:
To design, develop, and oversee Dubai Chambers enterprise and application architecture, ensuring technology solutions effectively support current and future business needs. The role is responsible for driving the end-to-end solution delivery lifecycle by providing architectural leadership, technical direction, and governance from concept through implementation and production. This includes evaluating emerging technologies, defining architecture roadmaps, gathering and translating business requirements into scalable solutions, assessing existing systems and identifying opportunities for enhancement, and guiding development teams to deliver secure, efficient, and innovative solutions. The role ensures alignment with Dubai Chambers strategic objectives, IT policies, procedures, service level agreements (SLAs), quality standards, and industry leading practices.
Solution Architecture & Technology Leadership
- Define, maintain, and govern Dubai Chambers enterprise, application, and solution architecture frameworks, standards, and principles.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that support business objectives and digital transformation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps and target-state architectures aligned with organizational strategy and future business requirements.
- Evaluate existing systems, platforms, and applications to identify optimization opportunities, technical debt, performance improvements, and modernization initiatives.
- Provide architectural leadership and technical governance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle, from requirements definition and solution design to implementation and production support.
- Review and approve solution designs, technical specifications, and architecture deliverables to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and best practices.
- Lead architecture assessments, proof-of-concepts, and technology evaluations to validate proposed solutions and emerging technologies.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable technology solutions.
- Assess the business, operational, financial, security, and technology impacts of architecture decisions and provide recommendations to support informed decision-making.
- Drive adoption of modern architecture practices, including cloud-native technologies, API-led integration, microservices, DevSecOps, automation, and emerging digital capabilities.
- Establish architecture governance processes and ensure adherence to IT policies, standards, SLAs, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams, solution designers, and project stakeholders throughout project execution.
- Monitor solution performance, scalability, reliability, and security, and recommend continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service quality and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment between business priorities and technology solutions.
- Research emerging technologies, industry trends, and innovation opportunities, providing strategic recommendations that enhance Dubai Chambers digital capabilities and competitive advantage.
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree in Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field is prefered.
- Professional certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, Oracle Cloud Architect, or equivalent are advantageous.
Minimum Experience and Skills
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, application architecture, enterprise architecture, software engineering, or related technology disciplines.
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex enterprise-scale digital solutions, integrating front-end, back-end, cloud, and third-party systems.
- Strong expertise in enterprise application architecture, system integration patterns, APIs, cloud technologies, and modern software development frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience in designing scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance solutions within complex enterprise environments.
- Experience developing architecture roadmaps, technology standards, governance frameworks, and solution design principles.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerization technologies, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and conducting architecture assessments, proof-of-concepts, and technology selection exercises.
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles, information security controls, data protection requirements, and secure-by-design practices.
- Strong knowledge of databases, middleware technologies, integration platforms, operating systems, and software development methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence technical and business stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical, scalable, and sustainable technology solutions.
- Proven ability to operate independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and hybrid delivery environments.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams and external technology partners is preferred.
