Lead Technical Architect

Qatar Airways; Doha; On-site; QAR 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Qatar Airways in Doha seeks a senior architecture leader to act as enterprise technical authority for Oracle Fusion integration with in-house apps. You will define target-state integration architecture and govern delivery of a large-scale transformation programme.

You will lead event-driven integration using Solace, Red Hat App Foundation, Oracle Integration Cloud, APIs, and enterprise patterns, ensuring secure, observable, scalable solutions aligned with standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years in technology architecture or enterprise integration.
• Proven senior/lead architect experience for large-scale transformations.
• Extensive experience in integrating Oracle Fusion with downstream apps via Oracle Integration Cloud, APIs and event-driven patterns.
• Deep expertise in event-driven architecture, including topics, contracts, schemas and versioning.
• Hands-on experience with Solace, Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Strong experience with Red Hat App Foundation, Apache Camel, Java, Spring Boot and integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of NFRs: availability, security, observability, recoverability and maintainability.
• Experience with observability practices: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, logging, metrics and APM tools.
• Knowledge of secure integration design (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS) and governance processes.
• Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD and resilience testing.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end technical blueprint and target-state integration architecture.
• Lead architecture of resilient, secure, auditable integration solutions using Solace, Red Hat App Foundation, Apache Camel, OCI, APIs.
• Establish enterprise integration standards: publish/subscribe, saga, outbox/inbox, transformation and event schemas.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and assurance across architecture documents, high-level designs, interfaces and production readiness artefacts.
• Define and govern non-functional requirements for integration workloads.
• Ensure zero message loss, guaranteed delivery, idempotency, retry strategies and back pressure.
• Govern the use of Solace and Red Hat App Foundation across the programme.
• Lead architecture reviews, governance forums and ensure compliance with standards.
• Define observability and monitoring standards using OpenTelemetry, tracing, logging and dashboards.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning and production readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to align integration with enterprise standards.
• Partner with Oracle and vendors to validate options and influence decisions.
• Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement for architectural integrity.
• Plan and lead evaluations, PoCs and spikes for complex integration scenarios.
• Build and mentor an architecture and engineering community on best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Enterprise integration

Solution architecture

Oracle Fusion integration

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Solace

Red Hat App Foundation

Apache Camel

Java

Spring Boot

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Security controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / CS / Math / Sciences

Tools

Oracle Integration Cloud

Dynatrace

ELK

Job description

General Information

Ref # 236602

Location: Qatar-Doha

Job family: Corporate & Commercial

Closing Date: 2026-09-09

Description

About the role:

In this leadership role, you will act as the enterprise technical authority for Oracle Fusion integration with Qatar Airways in-house applications, defining the target-state integration architecture and governing the delivery of a large-scale, mission-critical transformation programme.

You will provide strategic technical leadership for an event-driven integration landscape using Solace, Red Hat App Foundation, Oracle Integration Cloud, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

As a senior architecture leader, you will establish governance, standards, reusable patterns, and technical assurance practices for the Oracle Fusion integration programme, while mentoring architects and delivery teams and influencing key technology decisions across Qatar Airways Group IT.

Role And Responsibilities

• Define and govern the end-to-end technical blueprint and target-state integration architecture for Oracle Fusion integration with Qatar Airways in-house applications, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, security, and operational excellence standards.
• Lead the architecture of resilient, scalable, secure, and auditable integration solutions using Solace, Red Hat App Foundation, Apache Camel, Oracle Integration Cloud, APIs, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Establish enterprise integration standards covering publish/subscribe, request/reply, saga, outbox/inbox, service orchestration, message transformation, canonical data models, topic hierarchy, event schemas, routing rules, versioning, and payload governance.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and assurance across key project deliverables, including technical architecture documents, high-level designs, interface specifications, NFRs, integration patterns, environment designs, and production readiness artefacts.
• Define and govern Non-Functional Requirements for integration workloads, including availability, reliability, performance, scalability, resiliency, security, observability, auditability, maintainability, recoverability, and operational supportability.
• Ensure integration solutions are designed for zero message loss, guaranteed delivery, idempotency, replay, retry, exponential backoff, dead-letter handling, poison message management, back pressure, throttling, and self-healing capabilities.
• Govern the use of Solace and Red Hat App Foundation as strategic integration platforms, ensuring platform capabilities, configuration standards, operational controls, and implementation patterns are consistently applied across the programme.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance forums to ensure delivery teams comply with approved architecture, integration standards, security controls, and engineering quality gates.
• Define observability and monitoring standards using OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, trace context propagation, centralized logging, dashboards, metrics, alerting, and APM tools to provide end-to-end visibility from Oracle Fusion to QR applications.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, resilience testing, failure-mode analysis, and production readiness reviews to ensure critical integration flows can operate reliably under business-critical workloads.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application, and Business teams to ensure the integration approach supports business outcomes while meeting Qatar Airways Group standards.
• Partner with Oracle, platform vendors, and implementation partners to validate solution options, influence technical decisions, resolve architectural risks, and ensure fit-for-purpose use of Oracle Fusion, OIC, Solace, and Red Hat capabilities.
• Lead root cause analysis for critical integration incidents, ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented, and continuously improve reliability, supportability, and operational maturity.
• Plan and lead technical evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and architecture spikes to validate complex integration scenarios, emerging capabilities, platform constraints, and delivery risks before large-scale implementation.
• Build and mentor a high-performing architecture and engineering community by guiding solution architects, technical leads, integration engineers, DevSecOps engineers, and platform teams on enterprise integration best practices.

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Qualification

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join our IT - team. The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Honors in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Sciences, or equivalent, with 8+ years of job-related experience in technology architecture, solution design, enterprise integration, or mission-critical platform delivery.
• Proven experience in a senior or lead architect role, providing technical leadership, governance, and assurance for large-scale enterprise transformation programme.
• Extensive experience in architecting integration between Oracle Fusion and downstream enterprise applications using Oracle Integration Cloud, APIs, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Deep expertise in event-driven architecture, including publish/subscribe, request/reply, saga, outbox/inbox, canonical event models, topic taxonomies, event contracts, schema evolution, and payload versioning.
• Strong hands-on and architecture-level experience with Solace, Kafka or similar event messaging platforms, including topic hierarchy, guaranteed delivery, replay, dead-letter queues, consumer design, routing, and operational supportability.
• Strong experience with Red Hat App Foundation, Apache Camel, Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise integration patterns such as content-based routing, splitter/aggregator, message enrichment, transformation, orchestration, and protocol mediation.
• In-depth understanding of NFRs for integration workloads, including zero message loss, availability, resiliency, performance, scalability, security, auditability, observability, maintainability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience designing reliable integration flows with at-least-once or exactly-once processing considerations, transactional boundaries, idempotent consumers, retry strategies, exponential backoff, poison message handling, throttling, and back pressure.
• Strong knowledge of observability practices for distributed integration landscapes, including OpenTelemetry, traceparent/tracestate propagation, distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and APM tools such as Dynatrace or ELK.
• Experience defining and enforcing integration governance, API and event standards, documentation standards, service catalogs, engineering quality gates, release readiness criteria, and architecture compliance processes.
• Strong understanding of secure integration design, including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, secrets management, encryption, access control, data privacy, audit logging, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with Agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, contract testing, security testing, resilience testing, and deployment automation for integration platforms and cloud-based workloads.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, explain complex technology decisions clearly to business and executive audiences, and provide practical guidance to architects, engineering leads, developers, and vendor teams.
• Experience working with Oracle, platform vendors, implementation partners, and internal IT teams to shape product usage, resolve technical risks, and ensure the latest relevant platform capabilities are effectively leveraged.
• Strong leadership capability to mentor technical teams, build reusable architecture assets, establish communities of practice, and drive continuous improvement across architecture and engineering practices.
• Knowledge of airline or aviation business processes is an advantage.
• Certifications such as TOGAF, Oracle Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or relevant architecture and integration certifications are an advantage.

About Qatar Airways Group

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