Enterprise Architect

Staff Connect Information Technology Consultants; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Staff Connect Information Technology Consultants in Abu Dhabi invites an Senior Enterprise Architect to define and govern the technology strategy, target architectures, and engineering standards across Java, .NET and Python stacks, plus cloud integration, data, security and platform engineering domains.

This role partners with engineering leadership, product and security teams to ensure scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions aligned with business strategy and long-term modernization goals,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 15+ years of relevant technology experience, including hands-on engineering background and 7+ years in architecture roles.
• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, standards and governance frameworks.
• Strong enterprise architecture experience across complex engineering organizations, large-scale platforms, digital products and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision.
• Target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmap for the engineering department.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, patterns and reference architectures across domains.
• Govern enterprise system designs across multiple technology stacks.
• Lead architecture governance forums and design review boards.
• Partner with solution architects and engineering leads to review blueprints and API specifications.
• Define enterprise standards for microservices, SOA, event-driven design and API-led integration.
• Develop enterprise cloud architecture strategy across Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Drive platform modernization and cloud migration programs.
• Define integration architecture including API gateways and service mesh.
• Guide data architecture decisions across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Define secure-by-design architecture standards and encryption practices.
• Establish non-functional requirements for scalability, performance, resilience and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with DevOps to define CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Evaluate platforms and vendors through trade-off analysis and POCs.
• Create architecture decision records and governance documents.
• Support portfolio planning and cross-team dependency management.
• Provide architecture guidance for production issues and performance.
• Mentor architects and engineers on best practices.
• Represent engineering architecture in executive discussions.
• Maintain architecture repositories and governance documentation.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Java/Spring Boot

NET/.NET Core

Python

Solution design

Leadership

REST/gRPC/GraphQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/ information Technology

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

OpenAPI/Swagger

C4 models

Job description

Role amp responsibilities Job title Enterprise Architect Department Engineering Department Job Location Abu Dhabi UAE

JOB PURPOSE The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for defining governing and evolving the enterprise technology strategy target architecture and engineering architecture standards across the organization The role establishes enterprise-wide reference architectures technology roadmaps architecture principles and governance practices across multiple technology stacks including Java NET and Python as well as cloud integration data security and platform engineering domains The Enterprise Architect will work closely with engineering leadership solution architects product DevOps QA security data vendors and business stakeholders to ensure technology investments are scalable secure resilient cost-effective and aligned with business strategy and long-term platform modernization goals

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision
• target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmap for the engineering department
• Establish architecture principles standards patterns and reference architectures across application integration data infrastructure cloud security and observability domains
• Govern enterprise system designs across multiple technology stacks including Java Spring Boot NET NET Core C Python FastAPI Django Flask and related ecosystem technologies
• Lead architecture governance forums design review boards and technical decision-making processes to ensure consistency quality and strategic alignment across engineering initiatives
• Partner with solution architects and engineering leads to review solution blueprints HLD LLD documents C4 models UML diagrams deployment views integration flows and API specifications
• Define enterprise standards for microservices modular architecture service-oriented architecture event-driven architecture API-led integration and domain-driven design
• Develop enterprise cloud architecture strategy across Azure AWS and GCP covering landing zones network patterns identity compute storage databases containers Kubernetes serverless and managed services
• Drive platform modernization legacy transformation cloud migration re-platforming refactoring and technical debt reduction programs across products and engineering platforms
• Define enterprise integration architecture including API gateways service mesh event streaming message queues ETL ELT pipelines third-party integrations and partner connectivity
• Guide data architecture decisions covering relational databases NoSQL caching search data pipelines reporting master data data governance and analytical workloads
• Define secure-by-design architecture standards covering IAM OAuth2 OIDC SSO Azure AD Entra ID secrets management encryption compliance auditability and secure API design
• Establish non-functional requirement standards for scalability performance resilience high availability disaster recovery observability maintainability operability and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to define enterprise CI CD infrastructure as code environment strategy release governance monitoring logging tracing and operational readiness practices
• Evaluate and recommend enterprise technology platforms frameworks tools and vendors through trade-off analysis POCs prototypes cost assessment and risk evaluation
• Create architecture decision records technology selection guidelines lifecycle standards deprecation plans and risk mitigation plans for complex enterprise initiatives
• Support engineering leadership in portfolio planning capability mapping technology investment prioritization capacity planning and cross-team dependency management
• Provide architecture-level guidance for critical production performance reliability scalability security and integration issues across enterprise systems
• Mentor solution architects technical leads and senior engineers on system design enterprise architecture practices documentation quality engineering standards and design reviews
• Represent engineering architecture in discussions with executive leadership business stakeholders vendors clients and external partners
• Maintain enterprise architecture repositories standards roadmaps and governance documentation in Confluence or similar platforms

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum Experience: 15+ years of relevant technology experience, including hands-on engineering background and 7+ years in architecture, enterprise architecture, solution design or senior technical leadership roles.
• Preferred candidate profile Strong enterprise architecture experience across complex engineering organizations, large-scale platforms, digital products and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, standards and governance frameworks.
• Deep technical understanding of multiple technology stacks including Java/Spring Boot, .NET/.NET Core/C#, Python/FastAPI/Django/Flask and modern backend frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF, Zachman, capability mapping, value streams, architecture governance and architecture decision records.
• Expertise in microservices, domain-driven design, service-oriented architecture, modular monoliths, event-driven architecture, API-led integration and cloud-native design patterns.
• Ability to review and guide HLD/LLD documents, UML diagrams, C4 models, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams, integration architecture documents and API specifications.
• Hands-on background with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, service mesh, load balancing, service discovery and fault-tolerance patterns.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP, including enterprise landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, managed databases, monitoring, scaling, availability and cost optimization.
• Experience with containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, serverless architecture, platform engineering and cloud-native deployment models.
• Strong understanding of data architecture including relational databases, NoSQL, caching, search, data integration, data pipelines, reporting, data governance and analytical workloads.
• Experience with database platforms such as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or equivalent technologies, including data model review and SQL optimization considerations.
• Experience with messaging and event streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS/SNS or equivalent technologies.
• Strong security architecture knowledge including OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, Azure AD/Entra ID, IAM, secrets management, encryption, cryptography basics, secure API design and compliance considerations.
• Ability to define and govern non-functional requirements for scalability, performance, resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, maintainability, operability and cost efficiency.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, Git, infrastructure as code, automated testing, release governance, environment strategy and operational readiness.
• Experience with observability platforms such as ELK/Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic or cloud-native monitoring, logging and tracing tools.
• Ability to evaluate technologies, vendors and platforms through structured trade-off analysis, POCs, prototypes, cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, clean architecture, design patterns, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience supporting Agile delivery, portfolio planning, sprint readiness, backlog refinement, cross-team dependency management and engineering delivery governance.
• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, architecture repositories, documentation governance and architecture knowledge management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence executive, business, product and engineering audiences.
• Ability to mentor architects and engineering leaders, resolve design conflicts, drive consensus and maintain consistent architecture quality standards.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and collaborative, with strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic thinking and continuous improvement mindset.