Emirates Group Careers – Principal Solution Architect

Job Description:

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

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
• Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/driver role in Teams of Teams or Agile/ Release Trains.
• In addition, be accountable for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with peer architects and engineering teams
• Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
• Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development practices.
• Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt and overall solution performance.
• Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by 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 architectural patterns and solution designs to project teams.
• Guide and mentor the teams through the entire solution development lifecycle.

Job Requirements:

• Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile
• Understanding of big picture view, non-functional requirements and design patterns.
• Ideally certification in at least one of the areas – Cloud Architecture, IASA
• Understanding of architecture styles such as microservices, event driven architecture, cloud native applications.
• Technical leadership in leading a group of technical architects and senior developers. Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
• Understanding of industry standard software modeling techniques such as ArchiMate, C4 and UML
• Information Technology, Architecture
• Understanding of well architected framework for cloud and on-premise deployments.

Qualification & Experience:

• Significant experience of major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed
• Good understanding and experience in airline domain
• Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline.
• Preferably, 8 years of experience in development of large scale, complex, distributed, mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments.

Job Details:

Company: Emirates Group

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Dubai, UAE

Application Deadline: N/A

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