Principal Solutions Architect-ERP

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’.

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we're always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We're on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as Principal Solution Architect-ERP.

Join the Architecture team and propel global aviation technology into the future! As architects, we bridge ambitious business goals with purposeful technological solutions, working closely with business units to inspire and implement fit-for-purpose solutions. Our team handles projects ranging from incremental improvements to strategic overhauls across diverse global operations. We utilize modern technology stacks such as ReactJS, NodeJS, Java Microservices, Self-Service Integrations, and Open APIs, all underpinned by best practices in DevSecOps, Cloud, and modern engineering. If you're passionate about transforming technology, we invite you to apply and to make a significant impact on the future of aviation at Emirates Group.

As a Principal Solution Architect-ERP in the architecture team, you will be expected to design, develop and govern the solution architecture of the Group in alignment with corporate business and IT strategies, ensuring an appropriate balance between functional, service quality, and systems management requirements. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes.

In This Role You Will

• Lead the development of new corporate IT standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
• Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions and provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.
• Track technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
• Lead the solution shaping phase for major (more than AED 5m) complex projects, taking full responsibility for the architecture of the solution which involves developing a solution scenarios / stakeholder model, identifying appropriate strategic solution options, developing high level architectures for those options, leading the evaluation of the candidate architectures, selecting the preferred solution architecture, documenting that architecture and guiding the development team in its adoption and elaboration as a solution design.
• Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.
• Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
• From time to time, lead a strategic incubator project that will take a strategically significant new or innovative technology or architectural approach which involves assembling and managing the development team, taking full responsibility for the solution architecture, leading the design and development of the solution, and taking overall responsibility for the management of the project, its budget, timescales and dependencies.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience as well as using your significant experience of major systems architecture in ensuring that a robust and scalable solution is developed.
• Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of STE, Principal Solution Architect resources as required, and engage in, and lead, a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts and business managers consisting of at least 20 individuals.
• Own, manage and maintain the architecture roadmap of complex/large Projects, Products, Environments or Platforms.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8+ Years Information Technology or Other
• Ideally higher level business-related qualification, such as MBA
• Experience in the development of distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multi-user systems as well as experience in detailed business system architecture and design
• Preferably technical leadership and architecture experience and understanding of solution technologies such as Java/TPF/Oracle/BI/DW/ERP and capability frameworks such as CMMI.
• Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman, and other Enterprise Architecture frameworks and of industry-standard development methods (e.g. RUP, SCRUM)
• Experience with ITIL Framework and of industry-standard project management methods (e.g. PMBOK) as well as working with ERP (Cloud and On-prem), preferably Oracle (EBS and Fusion) and ERP cloud migration.
• Experience in engaging with business, domain expertise, and software engineering in Finance, Procurement & Supply Chain, and HR to validate ERP solutions architecture and its impact on ERP platforms and capabilities as well as expertise in ERP platform components, including integration, add-ons, and extension frameworks.
• Experience in creating, maintaining, and supporting the execution of architecture runway for ERP platforms, including technical enablers, deployment automation, monitoring, patch management, and version upgrades.
• Experience in connecting with ERP vendors and industry to drive innovations and continuous improvement in the ERP platform.
  
  

Leadership Position: 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. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers