AVP - Enterprise Architect.MGN PAK - Tech - Enterprise Architecture.MIT - PAKCOE

Mashreq; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq in Karachi is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect to define and govern the end-to-end technology architecture across infrastructure, data, AI/ML, and platform. You will partner with data, security, and development teams to drive modernization, cloud readiness, and data‑driven decision making.

The role demands 15+ years in relevant domains with 5–7 years in leadership, strong governance, and experience across hybrid environments. A TOGAF/Cloud cert or equivalent is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years in infrastructure, data, or platform engineering/operations with 5–7 years in architecture leadership.
• Experience defining enterprise-wide infrastructure, platform, data and AI architectures in hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise target architecture across infrastructure, platform, data, and AI.
• Establish guardrails for standardization, data quality, and security by design.
• Provide enterprise-level architectural direction for platforms and AI workloads.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud governance

Infrastructure automation

Security architecture

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Mentorship

Documentation

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/OCI)

Job description

The Enterprise Architect is a senior leader within the Enterprise Architecture function, responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization’s end‑to‑end technology architecture across infrastructure, data, AI/ML and platform. This role ensures that the enterprise technology landscape is modern, scalable, secure, cloud‑ready, and optimized to enable data‑driven decision‑making, intelligent automation, and digital transformation. The Enterprise Architect partners with technology teams, including data & AI teams, infrastructure, application development, security, integration and business domain architects to design an integrated technology ecosystem that accelerates value creation and supports enterprise strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise target architecture across infrastructure, platform, integration, data and AI, including principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Establish architecture guardrails that promote standardization, data quality, AI readiness, platform automation, integration, and security by design.
• Provide enterprise‑level architectural direction for platforms and advanced capabilities, by defining principles, standards, and target‑state guidance to ensure consistency and reuse across infrastructure, cloud, integration, and platform services.
• Drive modernization initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments to support advanced analytics, AI workloads, and scalable digital platforms.
• Collaborate with data architects and engineers to ensure data platforms are highly available, resilient, governed, and optimized for performance and cost.
• Ensure technology decisions support regulatory compliance for data governance, security, privacy, and data residency.
• Lead the evolution of enterprise infrastructure to ensure it meets requirements for scalability, performance, AI compute, storage modernization, network reliability, and cybersecurity.
• Oversee the lifecycle of key platforms including virtualization, container platforms (e.g., OpenShift/Kubernetes), cloud services, storage, and enterprise databases.
• Guide the selection and implementation of infrastructure and cloud technologies that support AI acceleration, distributed computing, and modern data workloads.
• Develop strategies for capacity planning, business continuity, and disaster recovery for critical platforms.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate business outcomes into capable, scalable, and future‑proof technology architectures.
• Lead cross‑functional architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, engineers, and project teams.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including roadmaps, reference architecture, standards, and guidelines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years in infrastructure, data, or platform engineering/operations, with 5–7 years in architecture leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise-wide infrastructure, platform, data and AI architectures in complex hybrid environments.
• Expertise in at least 2 domains from:
  • Enterprise data platforms, data engineering, analytics platforms.
  • AI/ML platforms, model lifecycle technologies, MLOps.
  • Integration platform (API Gateway, Enterprise Message Bus, Event Driven Architecture)
  • Security, identity, zero trust architecture, cryptography, perimeter defense, DevSecOps, Container security
  • Cloud architecture (Azure, OCI, AWS).
  • Container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
  • Compute, storage, networking, security, and virtualization technologies.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and platform solutions such as AIX, RHEL, Oracle Database, Dell EMC Storage, Pure Storage, Data Domain, Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint.
• Experience with DevOps, Platform Engineering, and observability tools.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.).
• Strong understanding of security architecture, cloud governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale platform, data, or infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and cross‑functional leadership skills.
• Certifications in cloud, networking, infrastructure, or architecture frameworks (AWS, Azure, TOGAF) are a plus.
• Experience with ITIL, Agile, and modern delivery methodologies.