The primary responsibilities of the Enterprise Architect, Applications

• To undertake architectural responsibility to drive the successful delivery of an enterprise-wide or project-specific application architecture within the customer’s environment.
• Responsible for setting the strategy, and providing oversight and guidance to teams and vendors deploying different solutions.
• Lead analysis of the current IT and applications environments to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Create the Enterprise Architecture roadmap for the IT solutions, based on the organizations’ strategy, to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.
• Ability to assist in fulfilling EA governance duties, attending Architecture Review Board meetings, participating in Design Authorities of key enterprise initiatives, etc.
• Responsible for the creation, iteration, and maintenance of structures such as enterprise and business architectures, including the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into an “operating model”; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of inter-relationships between people, organisation, service, process, data, information, technology and the external environment.
• Works with customers to understand their business strategy and develop IT strategies and architecture for significant areas of their business.
• Own and create Logical/Conceptual Design statement documents to support the customer IT Design Authority Governance process based around material change programmes of work and Design Artefacts.
• Build a framework of principles to ensure Information System Architecture uniformity across the business
• Build and maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including Entity Relationship Models, Information system dictionary, taxonomy to aid information traceability
• Provide technical expertise for change initiatives, working with solution architects, technical architects, and business division owners
• Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic Information system initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise-wide Information system strategy
• Manage holistic roadmap of architecture change initiatives across the customer’s IT Landscape, coordinating requirements across different initiatives
• Collaborate with MEEZA’s and customer’s internal departments, Strategic and business partners to find solutions and alternatives to client business challenges.
• Review and contribute to HLD / Architecture Spec Docs for specific projects, engage with senior leadership within MEEZA and Customer’s Business team/s to facilitate and lead Architecture discussions and decisions.
• Work with internal staff including Enterprise and Solution Architects, Solution Delivery, Business Intelligence team, Information System Management Office, Business Data owners, Service Delivery, Solution Delivery, and Information Security.
• Work with external stakeholders including Vendors, partners, and third-party service providers
• The role, responsibilities and geographical focus will change and develop over time along with the company’s rapid growth.
• Takes timely decisions, even with partial information or when there is disagreement

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• A minimum of 8 to 12 years’ experience in a technical support or engineering-related role working with a wide variety of Enterprise Applications, IT Infrastructure, databases, and Middleware technologies.
• Familiarity with a wide range of EA techniques, methodologies, and frameworks (including but not restricted to TOGAF & ArchiMate)
• Must have worked on one or more of well-known EA tools
• Build and maintain confidence of colleagues and clients
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the confidence to deliver ideas clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Independently own and conduct engagements with clients
• The Applications Enterprise Architect will demonstrate :
• Technical focus and drive
• Business Vision and Innovation
• Commercial Awareness
• Customer Driven
• Leadership, Accountability and Responsibility
• High-quality documentation and communication skills
• The candidate should have good knowledge on the following technical Skills:
• Web development frameworks and tools
• Microservices architecture and RESTful (API) services
• Qatar 2022 Cyber Security Framework capabilities using various IT Information Security Measures
• Database management.
• Public and Private Cloud using Microsoft Azure and Oracle Public Cloud
• Design Technical Solutions & Business Continuity
• Application Migration Experience
• Designing and deploying enterprise-wide dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, secure, and reliable applications on public & private clouds
• Work on own initiative and under pressure with a strong ability to prioritize
• Assists the organization to plan investments in application solutions and other systems
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures to support shared application services across the organization
• Comprehension of technology and process frameworks. ITIL v3 foundation or Equivalent knowledge in service management
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent presentation skills to large audiences
• Completed complex analysis of business requirements making recommendations up to executive level
• Teaching ability – be able to explain services to non-technical people in a way that makes sense
• Professional Arabic is a must requirement

Education:

• University degree in business administration or computer/technology related field
• TOGAF Certified or equivalent