The primary role of the chief architect is to provide hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring to the different technical teams within group, be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to the VP of architecture, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, robust and scalable solutions.
Be a key member of the architecture kernel team that drives the technology vision and strategy for the group.
Core role
Experience in architecting and delivering large scale market place or ecommerce solutions.
Experience in custom development projects with latest technologies.
Strong experience in agile developments. Ability to work with partial information.
Strong stakeholder management. Ability to communicate architecture solutions to delivery teams as well as senior stakeholders.
Strong experience in design patterns, soa, microservices and no sql databases.
Hands on coding experience, especially in custom developing proof of concepts as well as working closing with vendors in developing proof of concepts.
Job accountabilities linked to objective areas
- Define a robust architecture for building new applications and modernising existing applications, leveraging and enhancing existing building blocks or creating new reusable components;
- Provide technical leadership to the development team(s)
- Build early prototypes of product components and validate them for technical design and performance
- Understand the long-term business objectives and suggest technical strategies to meet those objectives by introducing innovation through technology
- Define reference architectures and architectural blue prints around micro services/SOA, information architecture, IOT architecture, mobility/presentation architectures etc.
- Be an evangelist and strong communicator of the architectural blueprints of our product to mobilize the rest of the organization to build solutions that fit our customer's needs
- Be responsive and decisive on adjusting our product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technology evolve
- Partner with others inside and outside the engineering organization to gather all requirements to formulate appropriate architecture required to provide system functionality, deciding when to advocate and when to compromise to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution
- Work with the development team to translate the software architecture into design
- Actively participate in the development process, as needed
- Work closely with product management, engineering, quality assurance, sales and professional services teams throughout the organization.
- Contribute to it strategy by providing inputs on matters relating to enterprise architecture and standards
- Influence the it department to set standards and best practices for technologies and optimise business processes and reduce data duplication
- Highly motivated with the ability to work on a multiple projects simultaneously(100+ projects) leading a team of architects.
Skills Knowledge/skills: Experience of which at least five years should be at a senior level related to it architecture or design.
Experience gained in both corporate and multi-cultural environments would be an added benefit.
- Business/is
- Business information architecture
- Systems architecture & standards
- Business process improvement
- Technical strategy and planning
- Emerging technology monitoring
Job Details Job Location Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company Industry
Airlines/Aviation
Company Type
Unspecified
Job Role Information Technology
Employment Type
Full Time Employee
Monthly Salary Range
Unspecified
Number of Vacancies
2
Job Ref.
JB3823797
Preferred Candidate
Career Level
Executive/Director
Years of Experience Min: 15
Residence Location
United Arab Emirates
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