Manager Enterprise Architect - #33628

Job Purpose: At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Our Architecture team are looking to hire a dynamic and experienced Manager: Enterprise Architect to fill a position that has arisen in their team. The enterprise architect evangelist will be a leader of note, who will be responsible for defining, developing and governing the technology strategy for business portfolios in alignment with corporate business and IT. In addition the successful candidate will be expected to s et references and directions for technology investments and identify priorities for investment including identifying new opportunities, business drivers and provide improved IT responsiveness to business needs thereby increasing speed, agility and faster turn-around. They will also be responsible for i mproving IT transparency enterprise-wide and push silos to think globally and act locally thereby accelerating a move towards a real time enterprise. What you will do: - Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards and guiding principles by analysing and understanding the potential impact of those changes on both IT and the business. - Periodically review the IT estate in the context of such standards and guidelines. Resolve cross-portfolio technology concerns by establishing repeatable architecture solutions. - Provide technology leadership and expert consultancy and coach solution architects and development teams. - Execute servant leadership principles and empower the team by developing them and setting the right context. - Lead the team by coaching, creating development plans, setting SMART goals to ensure delivery of service level agreements (SLA) and objectives. Conduct continuous performance reviews to cultivate a high performance culture. - Scout the market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to the IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend the existing assets or create new assets. Specific to Portfolios (Customer, Operations, Commercials, WMAP, Support Services and dnata) - Take accountability for continuous improvement of the application and technology landscape by defining, planning and driving technical enablers, managing technical debt and ensuring modernised roadmaps and updated architecture runways. - Acquire knowledge in the business portfolio domains and lead technology transformations for simplification, rationalization and innovation by defining target and transition architectures for the portfolio in line with business and IT objectives. - Be an evangelist of the Well-Architected Framework and ensure development teams understand and adopt such practices.
Qualifications & Experience: What you will bring: Information Technology. Other : 10+ Years Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) : Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline. - Experience in Information technology, Enterprise Architecture Knowledge/skills: - Preferably close to 10 years of experience in the development of large scale complex, distributed, scalable mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments. - Technical leadership and architecture experience with experience in leading a group of solution architects, directing strategic investments and influencing delivery plans - Experience in developing technology strategies and solutions with an enterprise big picture view and ability to zoom into solution details Understanding of application development technologies such as Java, open source frameworks, cloud, low code platforms etc. - Understanding of non-functional requirements and other practices such as observability, automation etc. - Understanding of agile software development frameworks such as Scrum, Scaled Agile. - Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman or any modern day Enterprise Architecture frameworks. - Understanding of industry standard software modelling approaches such as ArchiMate, UML etc. Understanding of architecture styles such as microservices, event driven architecture, cloud native applications. Understanding of well architected framework for cloud deployments. - Ideally certification in at least one of the areas: TOGAF, IASA, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security - Preferably good understanding and experience in airline domain. - Leadership Role : YES
Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.