About the role

As a technical lead, you will lead IT application architecture and solution design for assigned business units. Activities may involve requirements gathering including non-functional requirements, solution design reviews, interface control design and reviews, tech architecture reviews, unit test reviews, test scenario generation support, NFR testing and software delivery related quality assurance compliances. You will also plays a key role in identification and adoption of new technologies, tools and processes that will improve business automation and changing needs of the business units. Finally you will lead the systems architectures and solution design for assigned projects, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal divisional customers.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to and review Documentation of Functional Specifications, Interface Specifications and Nonfunctional Requirements.
• Liaise with external 3' party suppliers, where required, and internal departments / IT teams to collaborate and design and implement robust interfaces between applications for effective integration.
• Design and build IT solutions which are scalable, resilient and sustainable to address business requirements
• Assist to develop the UI / UX as per the business needs.
• Proficient in UML, Prepare I Review High Level and Low Level Design artefacts, ensure adherence to QRIT Software Governance Integration (SGI) standards.
• Responsible for development and unit testing for complex modules in case of bespoke development.
• Ensure conduct of QA reviews and unit test case reviews for assigned applications.
• Responsible for ensuring that all application Non-Functional Requirements are met, ensure thorough testing of NFRs and ensure corrective/ preventive actions.
• Responsible for solution design, methods and tools, including the technical aspects of configuration management methods, system security requirements, operational and maintenance aspects of solutions under development.
• Ensure quality control activities (including NFR testing) are carried out satisfactorily. Attends quality reviews as appropriate.
• Co-ordinates design activity, within a programme of change, acting as custodian of the solution designs for the entire technology stack.
• Takes responsibility for the technical integrity of solution designs, ensuring that common technical elements are recognized and that work is not unnecessarily duplicated.
• Supports in the development of service level agreements and any associated service guarantees.
• Assist in preparation and review of Release notes, prior to release of the application to Production.
• Conduct root cause analysis of reported incidents in operational systems and ensure timely fixes.
• Ensure that the solution reviews for the fixes, functionality is fully tested and then promoted following the software release management processes.
• Conduct proactive performance and fine tuning of Production applications for early detection and rectification of slow response transactions, application errors, query tuning etc and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• To enforce compliance to QRIT policies while selecting solution design components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency in the assigned projects.
•  Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Responsible for ensuring that solution design caters to functional, non-functional, security, service quality and systems management requirements.
• Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department.

Qualifications

About you

• High School Qualification /Vocational Qualification /Diploma or Equivalent (Type of Diploma Based on Role) with Minimum 5 years of job-related experience
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 4 years of job-related experience
• Relevant College or University qualification to min Bachelor's level.
• Degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Mathematics/ Sciences / Commerce/ relevant major.
• 5 years in a relevant architecture domain such as data, infrastructure, application, or business.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Quality Assurance processes.
• Expertise in area(s) architecture domain such as data, infrastructure, application, business, and/or Software
• development.
• Ability to conduct research and adopt emerging technologies and software development tools.
• Must have good analytical skills and ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Managerial skills - Ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills. Ability to train and develop subordinate's skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.

Preferred

• Airline Industry experience though not essential would be an added advantage. though not essential would be an added advantage though not essential would be an added advantage
• Degree / Honors / Masters in Engineering / Computer Science.
• Relevant industry certifications such as COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL.
• 8+ years in a relevant architecture domain such as data, infrastructure, application, business, and/or
• Software development and maintenance, with key roles played in design and production maintenance, support, and performance management.
• Communication skills.

Application Guidelines

Employees must submit applications through internal vacancies portal (via GEMS) only.

Please see below for all eligibility and requirements for internal applications and please note that any applications not meeting the criteria will not be processed.

• All internal candidates can only have three active applications at any point in time.
• All internal candidates must have completed a minimum 10 months in their current role in order to apply for a new role
• All internal candidates with an active final warning letter will be automatically disqualified from the recruitment process
• If you are a Deck Crew (Qatar Airways & Qatar Executive) candidate, you would require a NOC to apply for this role.