CDP Solutions Architect — Enterprise Architecture Lead

Covalense Global; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Covalense Global in Dubai is seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, and reusable artefacts. You will provide end-to-end guidance to product teams and vendors through ideation, planning, design and delivery in a security-conscious, scalable manner.

The role requires broad expertise across application, integration, data, cloud, and non-functional architecture, with strong hands-on support throughout

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology experience including solution architecture.
• Experience developing architecture standards, templates, reference architectures, and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing secure, scalable, and integrated enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge across application, integration, data, cloud, security, and non-functional architecture.
• Strong documentation, stakeholder-management, and vendor-management skills.
• Ability to identify architecture risks, dependencies, compliance gaps, and remediation measures.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into clear CDP technical standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes, and quality-gate criteria.
• Create and maintain architecture governance artefacts, including high-level design and low-level design templates, review checklists, architecture decision records, risk registers, compliance assessments, and approval workflows.
• Provide hands-on architecture support throughout ideation, planning, sourcing, design, and delivery.
• Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud, and non-functional requirements.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, integration designs, and other technical artefacts prepared by delivery teams.
• Evaluate solutions for security, scalability, integration, compliance, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and required remediation actions.
• Promote the reuse of approved shared services, components, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.

Skills

Architecture standards

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Vendor management

Documentation

Job description

Covalense Global in Dubai is seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, and reusable artefacts. You will provide end-to-end guidance to product teams and vendors through ideation, planning, design and delivery in a security-conscious, scalable manner.

The role requires broad expertise across application, integration, data, cloud, and non-functional architecture, with strong hands-on support throughout