ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Banking -ABU DHABI

Talent Arabia; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect with extensive banking experience for a bank in Abu Dhabi. Candidates must have 10-15 years in enterprise architecture roles and a strong grasp of cloud technologies, microservices, and API management. The role involves managing IT risks, aligning technology with business strategies, and providing thought leadership in IT departments. Open Group TOGAF9 certification is preferred. Interested candidates must pass an online test as part of the application process.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking industry.
• 10-15 years of experience in the banking technology division.
• Open Group TOGAF9 Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify, envision, and evolve enterprise architecture.
• Recommend strategic plans to align with business objectives.
• Manage IT risk profiles aligned with risk management plans.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Banking experience

Cloud technologies

Microservices

API management

Data architecture

Risk management

Architecture design

Job description

We have an urgent requirement for ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT Banking experience extensive experience in Tier1 international banks in Europe US or Singapore for a bank in Abu Dhabi UAE

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking is THE MUST
• Very strong expertise in architecture design cloud technologies microservices API management and data architecture is MUST
• Open Group TOGAF9 Certification is preferred
• Strong exp of 1015 years in the banking industry in the technology division Must
• extensive experience in Tier1 international banks in Europe US or Singapore is THE MUST and 100 MANDATORY to APPPLY

The first round is a 1hour online test on Gorilla which is mandatory. Please only apply for this role if you can commit to taking this test.

• Banks are facing increasingly competitive marketplace due to advent of disruptive technologies and innovations. It is therefore necessary to react to environmental changes and embrace an adaptative strategy to bring new offerings to market quickly
• Enterprise Architecture addresses key enterprise aspects including business processes and strategies value streams data and information and supporting technologies. Enterprise Architect is an important function responsible for identifying envisioning and evolving the enterprise architecture and facilitating architecturelevel decisions.
• Recommend longterm strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the Banks s longterm business objectives.
• Understand business challenges through discovery sessions and streamline internal process to improve service delivery and deliver high quality solutions.
• Provide thought leadership and direction to IT departments in service and solution delivery.
• Study the maturity adoption and business application of specific technologies.
• Application portfolio management including management of AsIs information assessment and recommendation to eliminate overlaps.
• Manage IT risk profile in alignment with enterprise risk management plan.
• Scenario planning what if analysis of emerging and disruptive technologies and innovations.
• Define standards and policies pertaining to technology processes products and patterns.
• Share best practices lessons learned and update enterprise architecture based on emerging technologies and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
• Analyze complex problem situations anticipate potential problems and future trends assess opportunities impacts and risks while developing and implementing plans and solution deliverables.
• Ensure architectural documentation of current implementations prototyping performance testing and scalability plans.

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