Manager Enterprise Architect Emirates Airlines Dubai

Emirates Airlines is presently hiring skilled and devoted candidate for job role of Manager Enterprise Architect in Dubai. The role holder will be responsible for defining, developing and governing the technology strategy for business portfolios in alignment with corporate business and IT. In addition the successful candidate will be expected to set references and directions for technology investments and identify priorities for investment including identifying new opportunities, business drivers and provide improved IT responsiveness to business needs thereby increasing speed, agility and faster turn-around. They will also be responsible for improving IT transparency enterprise-wide and push silos to think globally and act locally thereby accelerating a move towards a real time enterprise.

Duties of Manager Enterprise Architect

• Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards and guiding principles by analyzing and understanding the potential impact of those changes on both IT and the business.
• Periodically review the IT estate in the context of such standards and guidelines. Resolve cross-portfolio technology concerns by establishing repeatable architecture solutions.
• Provide technology leadership and expert consultancy and coach solution architects and development teams.
• Execute servant leadership principles and empower the team by developing them and setting the right context.
• Lead the team by coaching, creating development plans, setting SMART goals to ensure delivery of service level agreements (SLA) and objectives. Conduct continuous performance reviews to cultivate a high performance culture.
• Scout the market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to the IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend the existing assets or create new assets. Specific to Portfolios (Customer, Operations, Commercials, WMAP, Support Services and dnata).
• Take accountability for continuous improvement of the application and technology landscape by defining, planning and driving technical enablers, managing technical debt and ensuring modernized roadmaps and updated architecture runways.
• Acquire knowledge in the business portfolio domains and lead technology transformations for simplification, rationalization and innovation by defining target and transition architectures for the portfolio in line with business and IT objectives.
• Be an evangelist of the Well-Architected Framework and ensure development teams understand and adopt such practices.

Requirements for Role of Manager Enterprise Architect

The eligibility requirements for role of Manager Enterprise Architect are as under:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent).
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline.
• Experience in Information technology, Enterprise Architecture Knowledge/skills.
• Preferably close to 10 years of experience in the development of large scale complex, distributed, scalable mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments.
• Technical leadership and architecture experience. Experience in leading a group of solution architects, directing strategic investments and influencing delivery plans.
• Experience in developing technology strategies and solutions with an enterprise big picture view and ability to zoom into solution details. Understanding of application development technologies such as Java, open source frameworks, cloud, low code platforms etc.
• Ideally certification in at least one of the areas: TOGAF, IASA, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security.

Knowledge & Skills Desired

• Understanding of non-functional requirements and other practices such as observability, automation etc.
• Understanding of agile software development frameworks such as Scrum, Scaled Agile.
• Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman or any modern day Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
• Understanding of industry standard software modelling approaches such as ArchiMate, UML etc.
• Understanding of architecture styles such as microservices, event driven architecture, cloud native applications.
• Understanding of well architected framework for cloud deployments.
• Preferably good understanding and experience in airline domain.
• Leadership Role : YES

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