Principal Solutions Architect

The Emirates Group; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global aviation company as a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in GenAI and iXR. You will lead the architecture design, ensuring secure and scalable solutions while engaging with technology partners. This role offers a chance to significantly impact aviation technology's future.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Preferable certification in Cloud Architecture or IT Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and technical governance across platforms.
• Drive architecture decisions impacting solution costs and performance.
• Manage and inspire a team of Solutions Architects.

Skills

Technical Leadership

API Development

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Architecture

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

RESTful

GraphQL

Job description

Join the Architecture team and propel global aviation technology into the future! As architects, we bridge ambitious business goals with purposeful technological solutions, working closely with business units to inspire and implement fit-for-purpose solutions. Our team handles projects ranging from incremental improvements to strategic overhauls across diverse global operations. We utilize modern technology stacks such as ReactJS, NodeJS, Java Microservices, Self-Service Integrations, and Open APIs, all underpinned by best practices in DevSecOps, Cloud, and modern engineering. If you're passionate about transforming technology, we invite you to apply and to make a significant impact on the future of aviation at Emirates Group.

As a Principal Solutions Architect- GenAI & iXR you will be expected to lead the end-to-end architecture design and technical governance across iXR and GenAI platforms. Own the integration blueprint, platform modernization strategy, and technical governance to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant solutions that deliver value whilst remain at the forefront of relevant technical advances. Ensure all solutions meet enterprise architecture standards, security, data privacy, and AI governance compliance. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes including leading platform roadmap with technology partners like AWS, Microsoft and internal stakeholders.

In this role you will:

• Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by analysing and understanding the potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards and also lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions.
• Provide expert consultancy and coaching on architectural patterns and solution designs to project teams.
• Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape as well as showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
• Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development practices.
• Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt and overall solution performance including providing expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.
• Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
• Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/driver role in Teams or Agile/ Release Trains and in addition, be accountable for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with peer architects and engineering teams.
• Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of Solutions Architect and Senior Engineering resources as required, and engage in, and lead a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts and business managers.
• Own, manage and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of complex/large projects, technical products, environments and/or platforms as well as act as a product owner and be accountable for proactively identifying, prioritising, and overseeing the development of technical enablers, technical debts, quality improvements, and application modernisation activities.

Join the Architecture team and propel global aviation technology into the future! As architects, we bridge ambitious business goals with purposeful technological solutions, working closely with business units to inspire and implement fit-for-purpose solutions. Our team handles projects ranging from incremental improvements to strategic overhauls across diverse global operations. We utilize modern technology stacks such as ReactJS, NodeJS, Java Microservices, Self-Service Integrations, and Open APIs, all underpinned by best practices in DevSecOps, Cloud, and modern engineering. If you're passionate about transforming technology, we invite you to apply and to make a significant impact on the future of aviation at Emirates Group.

As a Principal Solutions Architect- GenAI & iXR you will be expected to lead the end-to-end architecture design and technical governance across iXR and GenAI platforms. Own the integration blueprint, platform modernization strategy, and technical governance to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant solutions that deliver value whilst remain at the forefront of relevant technical advances. Ensure all solutions meet enterprise architecture standards, security, data privacy, and AI governance compliance. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes including leading platform roadmap with technology partners like AWS, Microsoft and internal stakeholders.

In this role you will:

• Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by analysing and understanding the potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards and also lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions.
• Provide expert consultancy and coaching on architectural patterns and solution designs to project teams.
• Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape as well as showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
• Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development practices.
• Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt and overall solution performance including providing expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.
• Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
• Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/driver role in Teams or Agile/ Release Trains and in addition, be accountable for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with peer architects and engineering teams.
• Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of Solutions Architect and Senior Engineering resources as required, and engage in, and lead a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts and business managers.
• Own, manage and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of complex/large projects, technical products, environments and/or platforms as well as act as a product owner and be accountable for proactively identifying, prioritising, and overseeing the development of technical enablers, technical debts, quality improvements, and application modernisation activities.

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To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent IT related discipline.
• Minimum of 8+ Years of relevant experience in the field.
• Preferable certification in at least one of the areas - Cloud Architecture, IASA Experience in Information Technology, Architecture
• Technical leadership in leading a group of technical architects and senior developers. Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
• Comprehensive understanding of large integration landscapes such as customer relationship and complaints/case management.
• Experience with digital customer account management and fraud mitigation through third-party vendor products.
• Hands-on experience in application integration and API development (RESTful, GraphQL).
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile and Industry-standard software modelling techniques such as ArchiMate, C4 and UML.
• Knowledge in architecture styles such as microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native applications and well-architected framework for cloud and on-premise deployments.
• Knowledge of large systems architecture is needed to develop a robust and scalable solution.

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