Enterprise Architecture Director

Orange Corners Palestinian Territories; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Orange Corners Palestinian Territories is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architecture Director to lead strategy, governance, and modernization across business, application, data, technology, and security domains. The role focuses on translating business goals into scalable, secure target architectures and guiding major technology investments.

The director will drive cloud adoption, establish governance frameworks, and oversee architecture programs to enable resilient, interoperable and

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise architecture strategy and governance.
• Ability to translate business strategy into target-state architecture.
• Proven track record in cloud adoption and technology modernization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the enterprise architecture strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap.
• Align enterprise architecture with corporate strategy, business capabilities, operating models, and transformation priorities.
• Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and governance frameworks.
• Define current-state, transitional-state, and target-state enterprise architectures.
• Maintain an enterprise architecture repository covering business, application, data, technology, security, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Develop enterprise capability maps and connect business capabilities to technology investments.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Technology governance

Architecture standards

Digital transformation

Technology modernization

Strategic planning

Job description

We're Hiring: Enterprise Architecture Director

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to building scalable, secure, resilient, and digitally enabled business capabilities across diverse markets.

Our Technology, Product, Data, Security, Operations, and Business teams collaborate to establish a coherent enterprise technology landscape, modernize platforms, enable strategic transformation, and ensure technology investments remain aligned with long-term business objectives.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architecture Director to lead enterprise architecture strategy, technology governance, architecture standards, digital transformation, technology modernization, and long-term enterprise technology planning.

The ideal candidate will provide strategic architecture leadership across business, application, data, technology, security, integration, and cloud domains. They will translate business strategy into target-state architecture, guide major technology investments, manage architectural risk, and establish governance that enables innovation while maintaining scalability, security, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and own the enterprise architecture strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap.
• Align enterprise architecture with corporate strategy, business capabilities, operating models, and transformation priorities.
• Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and governance frameworks.
• Define current-state, transitional-state, and target-state enterprise architectures.
• Maintain an enterprise architecture repository covering business, application, data, technology, security, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Develop enterprise capability maps and connect business capabilities to technology investments.
• Lead architecture assessments for major transformation programs, technology initiatives, and strategic investments.
• Evaluate the existing technology landscape and identify modernization, consolidation, rationalization, and optimization opportunities.
• Define target-state architecture for core business platforms, digital products, enterprise applications, and technology services.
• Provide architecture leadership for cloud adoption, hybrid-cloud strategies, and technology modernization.
• Establish cloud architecture principles, standards, landing-zone requirements, and governance models.
• Guide decisions regarding public cloud, private cloud, hybrid environments, and on-premises technology.
• Lead application and technology portfolio rationalization initiatives.
• Identify legacy systems, technical debt, architectural risks, duplication, and unsupported technologies.
• Develop technology lifecycle-management strategies and modernization priorities.
• Establish architecture review boards, governance processes, decision rights, and architectural approval mechanisms.
• Review and approve solution architectures for major technology programs and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure solution architectures align with enterprise standards, security requirements, integration principles, and target-state architecture.
• Provide architectural oversight across application, data, infrastructure, integration, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital domains.
• Establish enterprise integration principles and standards for APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging, middleware, and system interoperability.
• Define enterprise data architecture principles covering data domains, ownership, governance, integration, quality, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with Data and Analytics teams to establish scalable data platforms and information architectures.
• Work closely with Cybersecurity teams to embed security architecture and risk management into enterprise technology decisions.
• Ensure architecture decisions address resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, privacy, identity, access management, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish technology standards for interoperability, scalability, observability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their strategic relevance to the organization.
• Monitor developments in AI, automation, cloud computing, edge computing, APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, and other emerging technologies.
• Establish responsible architecture principles for AI-enabled solutions, including security, governance, privacy, data protection, and operational considerations.
• Lead architecture strategy for digital transformation and enterprise modernization programs.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable technology strategies and architecture solutions.
• Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities, operating-model changes, and future capability requirements.
• Facilitate architecture workshops with executives, business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Provide architectural input into business cases, investment proposals, procurement decisions, and technology strategy.
• Assess technology options based on business value, total cost of ownership, scalability, security, resilience, complexity, and strategic alignment.
• Establish technology decision frameworks and support build-versus-buy evaluations.
• Review major vendor and platform selections from an enterprise architecture perspective.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, and Technology teams during strategic technology sourcing.
• Establish architecture requirements for strategic technology contracts and vendor engagements.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors, cloud providers, systems integrators, and architecture partners.
• Review external solution designs and ensure vendor architectures comply with enterprise standards.
• Establish technical due-diligence processes for acquisitions, partnerships, new platforms, and major technology investments.
• Lead technology integration planning for mergers, acquisitions, business expansion, and organizational transformation where applicable.
• Establish architecture risk-management processes and maintain an enterprise architecture risk register.
• Identify architectural dependencies, constraints, bottlenecks, and technology risks across the enterprise.
• Develop mitigation strategies for critical architecture and technology risks.
• Monitor technical debt and establish plans for reducing high-impact architectural deficiencies.

Key Performance Indicators

• Enterprise architecture roadmap execution
• Architecture strategy alignment with business objectives
• Target-state architecture adoption
• Architecture governance compliance
• Architecture review completion
• Architecture decision turnaround time
• Architecture exception rate
• Architecture exception resolution
• Technology portfolio rationalization
• Legacy-system reduction
• Technical-debt reduction
• Application portfolio optimization
• Technology standardization rate
• Architecture reuse rate
• Cloud adoption and modernization progress
• Cloud cost optimization
• Technology lifecycle compliance
• Unsupported-technology reduction
• System interoperability
• API and integration standard compliance
• Enterprise data-architecture adoption
• Cybersecurity architecture compliance
• Technology resilience
• Availability of critical platforms
• Disaster-recovery architecture compliance
• Business-continuity readiness
• Architecture risk reduction
• Critical technology-risk remediation
• Vendor architecture compliance
• Technology investment alignment
• Technology total-cost optimization
• Build-versus-buy decision effectiveness
• Strategic technology initiative delivery
• Transformation architecture readiness
• Architecture-related project delivery performance
• Architecture quality
• Solution architecture compliance
• Architecture documentation completeness
• Technology roadmap accuracy
• Technology dependency visibility
• Technical-debt visibility
• Architecture governance effectiveness
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Architecture team capability development
• Architecture standards adoption
• Innovation and emerging-technology adoption
• Technology modernization value realization
• Architecture-driven cost savings
• Technology investment ROI

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture, digital transformation, IT governance, cloud architecture, or technology leadership, preferably within a complex multinational, technology-driven, financial, professional-services, industrial, or large-scale enterprise environment.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Extensive experience developing and implementing enterprise architecture strategies.
• Strong understanding of business, application, data, technology, security, and integration architecture domains.