SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Duncan & Ross Consulting; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 391,000 - 558,000; Full time

Job summary

Duncan & Ross Consulting in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced enterprise architect to translate enterprise policies into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, and reusable artefacts, while providing end-to-end architecture guidance to product teams and vendors.

You will develop governance artefacts, review designs, identify risks and ensure security, scalability, and regulatory alignment across initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of 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 preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into clear 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 governance artefacts, including HLD and LLD templates, review checklists, decision records, 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 technical artefacts prepared by delivery teams.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and required remediation.
• Promote reuse of approved shared services, components, and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.

Skills

Solution architecture

Architecture standards development

Governance artefacts

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Technical documentation

Enterprise architecture guidance

Job description

Role Purpose:

Translate enterprise architecture policies and organizational standards into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, processes, and reusable artefacts, while providing end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into clear 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 governance artefacts, including HLD and LLD templates, review checklists, decision records, 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 technical artefacts prepared by delivery teams.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and required remediation.
• Promote reuse of approved shared services, components, and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.

Minimum Profile:

• 8+ years of relevant technology experience, including solution architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures, and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing and guiding 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.

Location:

Abu Dhabi, UAE (on-site) | Duration: 4 months | Start: ASAP, subject to security clearance | Language: Arabic speakers preferred

Vertical:

Technology