Solutions Architect FEATURED

ADC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

ADC is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the development and governance of our cloud, data, and integration architectures in Abu Dhabi. You will translate policy into clear technical standards and guide delivery teams on secure, scalable solutions.

You will create and maintain reference architectures, patterns, templates, checklists, and approval workflows, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant technology experience, including solution architecture.
• Strong knowledge of architecture standards and governance artefacts.
• Experience guiding secure, scalable enterprise solutions.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders and vendors.
• Proven ability to develop templates, checklists, and review processes.

Responsibilities

• Translate policies into clear CDP technical standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, templates, checklists, and processes.
• Create and maintain governance artefacts, including templates, risk registers, and approval workflows.
• Provide hands-on architecture support during ideation, planning, and delivery.
• Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, data, security, and cloud requirements.
• Review HLDs, LLDs, and integration designs prepared by delivery teams.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, and remediation needs.
• Promote reuse of shared services and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide recommendations and approvals.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Governance artefacts

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Job description

• 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.
• 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...