ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Banking -ABU DHABI

Talent Arabia; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Enterprise Architect with extensive banking experience. This role is critical in shaping the enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, and navigating the competitive landscape of the banking sector. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in architecture design, cloud technologies, and microservices, along with a proven track record in Tier 1 international banks. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead strategic initiatives and drive innovation within a dynamic environment. If you are ready to take on this challenge and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply!

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking sector.
• Extensive experience in Tier 1 international banks is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture to align with business objectives.
• Provide thought leadership and direction to IT departments.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Technologies

Microservices

API Management

Data Architecture

Risk Management

Education

Open Group TOGAF9 Certification

Job description

We have an urgent requirement for ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT with banking experience, specifically extensive experience in Tier 1 international banks in Europe, US, or Singapore for a bank in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking sector is a MUST.
• Very strong expertise in architecture design, cloud technologies, microservices, API management, and data architecture is a MUST.
• Open Group TOGAF9 Certification is preferred.
• Strong experience of 10-15 years in the banking industry in the technology division is a MUST.
• Extensive experience in Tier 1 international banks in Europe, US, or Singapore is MANDATORY to APPLY.

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

• Banks are facing an increasingly competitive marketplace due to the advent of disruptive technologies and innovations. It is therefore necessary to react to environmental changes and embrace an adaptive 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. The Enterprise Architect is an important function responsible for identifying, envisioning, and evolving the enterprise architecture and facilitating architecture-level decisions.
• Recommend long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the Bank's long-term business objectives.
• Understand business challenges through discovery sessions and streamline internal processes 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 As-Is information assessment and recommendations to eliminate overlaps.
• Manage IT risk profile in alignment with the enterprise risk management plan.
• Scenario planning and 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.

Keywords: api management, enterprise architecture, data architecture, cloud technologies, architecture, application portfolio management, api, risk management, architecture design, solution architecture, enterprise, scenario planning, banking software, microservices.