Senior Manager - Data & Integration Architecture

edari; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubai-based conglomerate seeks a Senior Manager to lead data and integration architecture, defining scalable patterns, API strategies, and event-driven approaches across cloud and hybrid environments. You will collaborate with cloud, data, and business teams to ensure trusted data exchange and adherence to enterprise standards.

The role emphasizes governance, target-state architectures, and oversight of modernization efforts in analytics, AI, and digital initiatives across multiple entities.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data/Integration/Enterprise Architecture within complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain target-state architectures for enterprise integration, APIs, messaging, event streaming, and data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Establish architecture standards, integration patterns, and governance processes for secure, scalable integrations across applications, SaaS platforms, systems, and data platforms.
• Drive API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and real-time integration capabilities across digital and operational landscapes.
• Support strategic initiatives involving customer platforms, ERP systems, digital channels, loyalty platforms, and AI solutions.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to design enterprise data flows, master data management, and data sharing frameworks for analytics, ML, and agentic AI use cases.
• Participate in architecture review boards, evaluate technologies and vendors, and oversee solution design reviews.
• Support modernization and rationalization initiatives, ensuring architectural alignment.
• Ensure architecture documentation is maintained within LeanIX and related repositories.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

API Integration

Data Architecture

Event-driven Architecture

MuleSoft

Boomi

Informatica

Azure Integration Services

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

TOGAF Certification

Azure/AWS Cloud Certifications

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

We are currently seeking a Senior Manager - Data & Integration Architecture who will be responsible for leading the design, governance, and evolution of integration and data architecture capabilities. The role defines scalable integration patterns, API strategies, event-driven architectures, and enterprise data flows that enable business agility, digital transformation, and AI-driven initiatives across multiple business entities.

This position works closely with application teams, cloud engineering, data teams, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless connectivity, trusted data exchange, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards. You will be responsible for defining and maintaining target-state architectures across cloud and hybrid environments, driving integration and data platform modernisation at both a strategic and governance level.

Our client based in Dubai, is one of the largest semi-governmental conglomerates in the region. This position is a contract role with an initial duration of 6 months and is renewable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain target-state architectures for enterprise integration, APIs, messaging, event streaming, and data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments
• Establish architecture standards, integration patterns, and governance processes to ensure secure, scalable, and reusable integrations between enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, operational systems, and data platforms
• Drive API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and real-time integration capabilities across digital and operational landscape
• Support strategic initiatives involving customer platforms, ERP systems, digital channels, loyalty platforms, and emerging AI solutions
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to design enterprise data flows, master data integration approaches, and data-sharing frameworks that support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and agentic AI use cases
• Participate in architecture review boards, evaluate integration technologies and vendors, and oversee solution design reviews
• Support technology modernisation and rationalisation initiatives, ensuring architectural alignment and coherence
• Ensure architecture documentation is maintained within LeanIX and related architecture repositories, providing visibility into integrations, interfaces, data flows, and technology dependencies

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• 12+ years of overall experience, with proven tenure as a Data Architect, Integration Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments
• Strong expertise in enterprise integration technologies including APIs, middleware, ESB/iPaaS platforms, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with integration platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, Azure Integration Services, or equivalent technologies
• Strong knowledge of data architecture concepts including data modelling, master data management, metadata management, data governance, data quality, and modern cloud data platforms
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies, particularly Azure and/or AWS, along with familiarity with API management, event streaming, and modern data lake or lakehouse architectures
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, hospitality systems, loyalty platforms, or digital commerce solutions is advantageous
• Knowledge of AI, machine learning data pipelines, retrieval architectures, and agentic AI integration patterns is a strong advantage
• Experience in architecture governance, platform selection, and large-scale transformation programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline
• TOGAF certification preferred
• Cloud certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Integration Services, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent
• Data-related certifications such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or Informatica are advantageous