Solution Architect

Landmark Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Landmark Group is seeking a Solution Architect to define and guide enterprise architecture across applications, cloud platforms and data flows in Dubai. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure and practical solutions, aligning with business goals and long-term technology direction.

The candidate will lead architecture governance, drive modernization and champion AI-enabled architectures, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver complex enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in application development, architecture or technology delivery.
• 5+ years in application/enterprise solution architecture.
• Proven delivering large-scale enterprise solutions across cloud, SaaS and on-premise platforms.
• Experience in retail, ecommerce, hospitality supply chain or enterprise systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures across enterprise platforms, SaaS, cloud services and digital systems.
• Define standards, patterns and best practices for modular, scalable and secure designs.
• Guide teams on structure, technology selection and alignment with enterprise principles.
• Ensure designs meet business capabilities, security and long-term direction.
• Identify AI-enabled solution patterns and intelligent workflows within applications.
• Lead modernization, cloud adoption and platform enablement initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, data and security to ensure production readiness.

Skills

Application Architecture

Solution Design

AI Enabled Architecture

Application Modernization

Cloud & Platform Enablement

Cross Domain Alignment

Security by Design

Leadership & Collaboration

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

| Job Title: | Solution Architect | Job Category: | |
| Concept: | Digital | Job Code/ Req#: | NA |
| Location: | Dubai, UAE | Travel Required: | As required |
| Reporting To: | | Position Type: | Full Time |
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| Landmark Group – Introduction |
| The Landmark Group began its journey in 1973 with one store in Bahrain and has grown into one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Currently, the Group operates over 2,200 outlets, encompassing over 30 million square feet across 21 countries. |
| Job Purpose |
| The Technical Architect is responsible for defining and guiding the technical and application architecture for enterprise solutions. The role translates business requirements into scalable, secure, and practical solution designs across applications, integrations, cloud platforms, data flows, and enterprise systems.
Key Focus Areas:

• Application Architecture
• Solution Design
• AI Enabled Application Architecture
• Application Modernization
• Cloud and Platform Enablement
• Cross Domain Application Alignment
• Infrastructure and Security Driven Application Design
• Drive Innovation

| Job Description |
| Application Architecture

• Design end-to-end application architectures across enterprise platforms, custom applications, SaaS solutions, cloud services, and digital systems.
• Define application architecture standards, patterns, and best practices for modular design, service design, maintainability, scalability, performance, reliability, and supportability.
• Guide teams on application structure, component design, technology selection, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Ensure application designs support business capabilities, operational needs, security expectations, and long-term technology direction.
• Application Solution Design
• Translate business requirements into practical end-to-end technical designs and solution options.
• Evaluate solution alternatives, identify technical risks, assess cost versus benefit, and recommend fit-for-purpose architecture decisions.
• Create solution designs that consider applications, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, security, operations, and delivery constraints.
• Provide technical guidance during delivery to ensure the implemented solution remains aligned with the approved design.
• AI Enabled Application Architecture
• Identify practical opportunities to embed AI, automation, machine learning and generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications and business processes.
• Guide application teams on AI enabled solution patterns, including intelligent search, document processing, recommendation engines, conversational interfaces, workflow automation and decision support.
• Ensure AI-enabled application designs consider data quality, privacy, security, access control, auditability, explainability, operational support and responsible AI principles.
• Work with data, integration, security, infrastructure and platform teams to ensure AI solutions are properly connected to enterprise data, APIs, cloud services and application platforms.
• Support evaluation of AI tools, platforms, APIs and vendor capabilities to determine fit-for-purpose use cases and enterprise adoption.
• Ensure AI capabilities are designed as part of the application architecture, not as disconnected experiments or standalone proof of concepts.
• Application Modernization
• Support legacy application assessment, rationalization, modernization and simplification initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, remove duplication, consolidate platforms and improve application maintainability.
• Guide modernization approaches including replatforming, refactoring, replacement, cloud adoption, containerization and service enablement.
• Partner with business and technology teams to define practical transition states from current architecture to target architecture.
• Infrastructure and Security Aware Application Design
• Ensure application designs properly consider hosting, compute, storage, network, identity, access, security controls, performance, resilience, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and operational support requirements.
• Work closely with infrastructure and security architects to align application designs with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, network and security standards.
• Incorporate security by design principles including identity and access management, role based access, encryption, secure APIs, data protection, vulnerability management and compliance needs.
• Validate that applications are designed for availability, scalability, observability, supportability and production readiness.

| Cloud and Platform Enablement

• Guide the use of cloud services, enterprise platforms, DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, environment strategy and deployment patterns.
• Support application teams in adopting cloud native and platform capabilities where they provide business and technical value.
• Ensure cloud and platform choices are secure, scalable, cost effective, supportable and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve delivery speed, reliability and operational maturity.
• Cross Domain Application Alignment
• Work closely with enterprise, integration, data, infrastructure, security and platform architects to ensure application solutions are aligned across the broader technology landscape.
• Ensure application designs properly address integration points, data movement, master data needs, reporting dependencies, security controls, infrastructure impact and operational dependencies.
• Maintain clear ownership boundaries with specialized architecture domains while ensuring end-to-end solution integrity.
• Identify reuse opportunities across applications, platforms, services, APIs and shared technical capabilities.
• Architecture Governance & Compliance Alignment
• Work with the Architecture Review Board, enterprise architecture team and domain architects to ensure application and technical solution designs follow approved architecture standards, principles and governance processes.
• Support architecture review submissions by preparing solution architecture documents, design diagrams, technical decision records, risk assessments and required review materials.
• Review application and technical designs for alignment with enterprise standards across application architecture, integration, data, infrastructure, security, cloud and operational readiness.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, technical debt, compliance concerns and operational impacts early in the solution lifecycle.
• Ensure application solutions consider security, privacy, data protection, resilience, disaster recovery, audit and regulatory requirements in partnership with the relevant domain owners.
• Track architecture decisions, exceptions, risks and follow-up actions through the appropriate governance forums and delivery checkpoints.
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Serve as subject matter expert and technical advisor for infrastructure and security initiatives
• Mentor engineering teams on architecture principles, security best practices and technology adoption
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, application teams and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with business needs
• Lead architectural reviews, provide technical guidance and resolve design conflicts
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging threats and innovative technologies
• Documentation & Knowledge Management
• Create and maintain solution architecture documents, application architecture diagrams, system context diagrams, data flow diagrams, deployment views, technical design documents and architecture decision records.
• Document key design decisions, architecture assumptions, technical risks, dependencies, exceptions, standards, reusable patterns and open issues.
• Maintain architecture artifacts required for Architecture Review Board reviews, delivery governance, production readiness, operational handover and future system changes.
• Document application design standards, technical patterns, operational guidelines and support considerations in collaboration with architecture and engineering teams.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and capability building programs for engineering, product, delivery and technical teams.

| Knowledge, Skills & Experience | |
| Relevant Job Experience | Professional Experience

• 10 plus years of experience in application development, technical architecture, solution architecture, enterprise systems or technology delivery roles.
• 5 plus years of experience in application architecture, technical solution design or enterprise wide solution architecture.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large scale enterprise application solutions across custom applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services and packaged business systems.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs covering applications, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, security, cloud and operations.
• Experience working with Architecture Review Boards, enterprise architecture teams and domain architects to review, govern and align solution designs.
• Strong background in application modernization, platform consolidation, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction and legacy system rationalization.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, including application hosting, deployment patterns, scalability, security and monitoring and cost awareness.
• Experience working with integration teams on APIs, middleware, event based flows, data exchange and system interaction patterns.
• Experience guiding engineering teams on application design, technical patterns, DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, testing, deployment and production readiness.
• Retail, ecommerce, hospitality supply chain or enterprise business systems experience strongly preferred.
• Technical Skills
• Application Architecture: Enterprise applications, custom platforms, SaaS solutions, packaged systems, modular design, service design, API first architecture, scalability, maintainability and supportability.
• Solution Design: End to end technical design, solution options, architecture tradeoffs, risk assessment, cost versus benefit analysis, transition architecture and implementation guidance.
• AI Enabled Architecture: Practical understanding of generative AI, machine learning enabled applications, AI APIs, intelligent search, automation, prompt enabled workflows, responsible AI and data privacy and AI solution governance.
• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, hybrid cloud, application hosting, cloud services, deployment patterns, cloud security, scalability and resilience and cost optimization.
• Integration Design: REST APIs, event driven architecture, middleware, messaging, file based integrations, data exchange patterns and system interaction models in partnership with the integration architect.
• Infrastructure Design : Hosting, compute, storage, networking, load balancing, application gateways, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and operational support considerations.
• Security by Design: IAM, SSO, MFA, role based access, encryption, secure APIs, data protection, vulnerability management, application security, privacy, and compliance alignment.
• DevOps and Automation: CI/CD, release management, environment strategy, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code awareness.
• Observability and Operations: Monitoring, logging, alerting, performance management, incident readiness, production support, operational handover, and service reliability.
• Architecture Documentation: Solution architecture documents, application diagrams, system context diagrams, data flow diagrams, deployment views, technical design documents, and architecture decision records.

| Required Leadership Skills |

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and long-term infrastructure strategy
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Problem Solving: Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and security challenges
• Collaboration: Strong team player with experience working across organizational boundaries and with external partners
• Innovation: Forward-thinking approach to evaluating and adopting emerging technologies and methodologies