Senior Software Solutions Architect — Remote/Hybrid, Global Impact

Sword Middle East; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

SWORD Group in the UAE is seeking a Senior Software Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP standards and to provide end-to-end architecture guidance to product teams and vendors.

You will develop architecture principles, reference architectures, templates, and governance artefacts; review high- and low-level designs; identify risks and remediation needs; and promote reuse of shared services while supporting quality gates in a hybrid/remote

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant software technology experience including solution architecture.
• Experience developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing secure, scalable, and integrated enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge of application, integration, data, cloud, security and non-functional architecture.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder-management and vendor management skills.
• Government or large-enterprise experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate policies into CDP technical standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes and quality-gate criteria.
• Create and maintain architecture artefacts including HLD/LLD templates, review checklists, risk registers, compliance assessments and approval workflows.
• Provide hands-on architecture support during ideation, planning, sourcing, design and delivery.
• Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud and non-functional requirements.
• Review HLDs, LLDs, integration designs and other artefacts prepared by delivery teams.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance and remediation requirements.
• Promote reuse of approved shared services, components and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance artefacts

Vendor management

Documentation

Cloud and security

Large-enterprise experience

Job description

SWORD Group in the UAE is seeking a Senior Software Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP standards and to provide end-to-end architecture guidance to product teams and vendors.

You will develop architecture principles, reference architectures, templates, and governance artefacts; review high- and low-level designs; identify risks and remediation needs; and promote reuse of shared services while supporting quality gates in a hybrid/remote