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ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Banking -ABU DHABI

Project Management Institute

Abu Dhabi

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect with a strong background in banking. This role demands extensive experience in enterprise architecture, particularly within Tier-1 international banks. The successful candidate will lead architectural decisions, recommend strategic plans, and ensure alignment with business objectives. As the banking sector faces disruptive technologies, this position is crucial for adapting strategies and enhancing service delivery. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will shape the future of banking technology.

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of experience in enterprise architecture roles within banking.
  • Strong expertise in architecture design and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Define long-term strategic plans to align with business objectives.
  • Provide thought leadership in service and solution delivery.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture
Banking Software
Cloud Technologies
Microservices
API Management
Data Architecture
Architecture Design
Risk Management
Application Portfolio Management
Scenario Planning

Education

Open Group TOGAF9 Certification

Job description

We have an urgent requirement for ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT – Banking experience extensive experience in Tier-1 international banks in Europe, US or Singapore for a bank in Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • Extensive experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking is THE MUST
  • Very strong expertise in architecture design, cloud technologies, microservices, API management, and data architecture is MUST
  • Open Group TOGAF9 Certification is preferred
  • Strong exp of 10-15 years in the banking industry in the technology division—Must
  • Extensive experience in Tier-1 international banks in Europe, US or Singapore is THE MUST and 100% MANDATORY to APPLY

The first round is a 1-hour online test on Gorilla, which is mandatory. Please only apply for this role if you can commit to taking this test.


  • Banks are facing increasingly competitive marketplace due to advent of disruptive technologies and innovations. It is therefore necessary to react to environmental changes and embrace an adaptive strategy to bring new offerings to market quickly.
  • Enterprise Architecture addresses key enterprise aspects including business processes and strategies, value streams, data and information, and supporting technologies. Enterprise Architect is an important function responsible for identifying, envisioning, and evolving the enterprise architecture and facilitating architecture-level decisions.
  • Recommend long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the Bank’s long-term business objectives.
  • Understand business challenges through discovery sessions and streamline internal processes to improve service delivery and deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Provide thought leadership and direction to IT departments in service and solution delivery.
  • Study the maturity, adoption, and business application of specific technologies.
  • Application portfolio management including management of As-Is information, assessment and recommendation to eliminate overlaps.
  • Manage IT risk profile in alignment with enterprise risk management plan.
  • Scenario planning – what-if analysis of emerging and disruptive technologies and innovations.
  • Define standards and policies pertaining to technology processes, products, and patterns.
  • Share best practices, lessons learned, and update enterprise architecture based on emerging technologies and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
  • Analyze complex problem situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities, impacts, and risks while developing and implementing plans and solution deliverables.
  • Ensure architectural documentation of current implementations, prototyping, performance testing, and scalability plans.

Skills: api management, enterprise architecture, data architecture, cloud technologies, architecture, application portfolio management, api, risk management, architecture design, solution architecture, enterprise, scenario planning, banking software, microservices.

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