Senior Enterprise Architecture & IT Rationalisation Lead

Duncan & Ross Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Duncan & Ross Consulting seeks a senior Enterprise Architecture &IT Rationalisation Lead for a confidential UAE-based industrial group, based in Dubai. You will assess the current landscape, define target-state architecture, and drive simplification, consolidation, and optimisation across the IT estate.

You will connect technology decisions to operational outcomes, reducing complexity and cost, and establish a practical roadmap for an integrated, scalable, secure, and internally managed

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, IT transformation, or enterprise IT rationalisation.
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex technology estates and develop actionable current-state and target-state architecture roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of application portfolio management, system integration, data architecture, infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity alignment.
• Proven experience identifying technology duplication, simplifying application landscapes, consolidating platforms, or optimising IT expenditure.
• Strong business case development, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, technology governance, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to translate architectural principles into practical delivery decisions and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current enterprise architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, integration, and security.
• Define a pragmatic target-state enterprise architecture aligned with business strategy, industrial operations, and the technology transformation roadmap.
• Lead IT rationalisation initiatives covering application duplication, legacy systems, overlapping platforms, technology obsolescence, and unnecessary complexity.
• Develop application and technology portfolio maps, capability models, architecture principles, standards, and transition roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate systems, simplify integrations, optimise technology investments, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, platform choices, integration patterns, cloud adoption, and technology lifecycle risks.
• Align enterprise architecture with Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, industrial IT/OT integration, data and AI initiatives, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Establish architecture governance, design reviews, technology standards, exception processes, and decision-making frameworks.
• Work with business leaders, application owners, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, data teams, and external vendors to ensure architectural alignment.
• Assess the technology implications of insourcing, outsourcing, vendor transitions, and the development of internal technology capabilities.
• Build business cases and prioritised roadmaps that balance strategic value, delivery feasibility, risk, cost, and operational continuity.
• Present architecture options, rationalisation opportunities, risks, and investment recommendations to senior technology and business leadership.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

IT transformation

Stakeholder engagement

Roadmaps

Governance

Cost optimisation

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Job description

Duncan & Ross Consulting seeks a senior Enterprise Architecture &IT Rationalisation Lead for a confidential UAE-based industrial group, based in Dubai. You will assess the current landscape, define target-state architecture, and drive simplification, consolidation, and optimisation across the IT estate.

You will connect technology decisions to operational outcomes, reducing complexity and cost, and establish a practical roadmap for an integrated, scalable, secure, and internally managed