InterGlobe Technologies - Principal Architect - Sparx Enterprise Technology

Sparx Enterprise Architect Technology Opportunity with IGT, Dubai.

Position: Principal Architect - Sparx Enterprise Architect

Experience: 14 to 24 Years

Work Location: Dubai

Salary: As per UAE Standard

Job Type: Permanent (1 yr and extendable)

Job Description;

Job Purpose

Design, develop and govern the solution architecture of the Group in alignment with corporate business and IT strategies, ensuring appropriate balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes.

Job Accountability;

- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience.

- Lead the development of new corporate IT standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.

- Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.

- Track technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend the existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.

- Lead a team of architects to deliver architecture for the assigned area viz., information, application or technology architecture, taking full responsibility for the detailed level architecture provided. This involves guiding the development of solution scenarios/ stakeholder model and identifying and evaluating appropriate strategic solution options.

- Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.

- Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.

- Lead a strategic incubator project that will take a strategically significant new or innovative technology or architectural approach.

This involves recruiting and managing the development team, taking full responsibility for the solution architecture, leading the design and development of the solution, and taking overall responsibility for the management of the project, its budget, timescales and dependencies. Such projects will create the foundations for corporate strategic platforms on which our future critical business systems will depend. Significant experience of major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed.

- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of Information, Application and Technology architecture to the overall enterprise architecture principles and framework.

- Establish SMART objectives, career development plans and training for direct reports and provide appropriate mentoring and coaching. Conduct timely annual and interim performance reviews to cultivate a high performance culture.

Critical Competencies

- Problem Solving and Decision Making

- Leadership

- Influence and Negotiation

- Customer Service orientation

- Business Awareness

- Interpersonal Ability

Effective Communication Attention to Detail Innovative Interpersonal Ability Continuous Learning Business Awareness

Required Key Skills and Knowledge;

- Experienced in independently handling large projects with specific technology ownership

- Hands on experience architecting solutions for distributed, mission critical systems with emphasis on real time integration, high availability, scalability and performance

- Experience of detailed business system architecture and design

- Preferably technical leadership and architecture

- Experience Broader technical knowledge, experience in web, middleware and database technologies

- Knowledge of architectural design patterns, technical design, design reviews, architectural impact and risk analysis

- Should have thorough experience in application architecture area, designing and documenting application and interface architectures

- Should have experience in conducting architectural gap analysis and preparation of target state identification

- Experienced in mapping business capabilities & services to system & technology components

- Should have experience in modelling application architecture using various ArchiMate diagrams and notations.

- Sparx Enterprise Architect tool experience is desirable

- Understanding of solution technologies such as Java/TPF/Oracle/BI/DW/

- Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman and other Enterprise Architecture frameworks

- Experience in ground handling, cargo, travel, catering or any another airline/aviation domains

Qualifications;

- Degree or Honors (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline or equivalent experience.

- Process Improvement Techniques

- Knowledge of Six Sigma or Green Belt Certified

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