Solutions Architect

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 Solutions Architect Join our Technical Product Management team, where we build effective technology products and services that our customers love. We offer a mix of B2B and B2C products and services in domains such as Digital, Airline and Airport Operations, Group Services, and Commercial. Our goal is to continuously evolve our products, enriching them with features that focus on delivering value to our customers and users. If you are passionate about creating impactful technology products and ensuring their success, we invite you to apply and to contribute to the innovation and excellence at Emirates Group As a Solutions Architect, you will architect, design, and communicate a system's high-level structural and behavioural aspects to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs in alignment with corporate IT standards and architecture guiding principles. This necessitates engagement throughout the lifecycle of projects by taking full responsibility for the solution architecture In this role you will:

• Develop optimal, fit-for-purpose, and aligned IT architecture solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure architecture is robust, appropriate, and high-quality, conforming to corporate IT standards and roadmaps. Take accountability for the end-to-end architecture, including architecture and technology decisions.
• Develop Enterprise Architecture standards and guidelines in the information, application, and technology domains. Work closely with Manager Enterprise Architecture and other peer architects in the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies and patterns.
• Continuously monitor industry trends, identify and evaluate relevant technologies and tools, and showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
• Establish policy, guidelines, and strategy for selecting system components and their designs. Assess solution designs to ensure they effectively use architectural patterns and adhere to the guidelines. Promote the reuse of solutions, platforms, and services. Contribute to the enterprise architecture repository.
• Guide, mentor, and motivate the development team members in adopting good engineering practices, tools, and techniques throughout the development process. In addition, advise and support team members in overcoming technical challenges by providing expert consultancy and coaching.
• Conduct architecture reviews of vendor products as part of the selection process and other critical production applications with Software Engineering development teams. Provide architecture recommendations for the short and long-term improvement of applications.
• Develop logical infrastructure solutions in alignment with the technology standards. Work closely with infrastructure teams to ensure that the physical infrastructure designed meets project requirements. Work together, oversee, and govern the development to ensure the development team's design and implementation align with the proposed architecture definition. Work closely with the quality engineering team to ensure that the final solution meets the agreed non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Manager Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of information, application, and technology architecture to the overall architecture principles, framework, and guidelines.
• Own, manage, and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of small to medium-sized initiatives, products, environments, and/or platforms. Act as a product owner and be accountable for proactively identifying, prioritizing, and overseeing the development of technical enablers, technical debts, quality improvements, and application modernization activities.
• Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications regarding solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt, and overall solution performance.

Qualifications & Experience: To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent): Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an IT-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in Information Technology within Solutions Architecture.
• Solid experience in designing and developing large-scale, complex, distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments.
• Hands-on experience in detailed business system architecture and design technical leadership across groups of technical architects and senior developers. Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
• In-depth understanding of one or more technologies such as Java, ERP, Cloud, open source frameworks, low code platforms, Big data, BI, data warehouses, observability, automation, network and infrastructure, mobile & frontend technologies, AI/ML, container management platforms, database, integration, digital workplace, DevOps. IoT, Blockchain, web 3.0, contact centre, mainframe, service management platforms, messaging, cyber security, etc.
• Understanding of Architecture Methods, Principles and Patters (OOAD, GoF, SOA etc.).
• Understanding Architecture and design artefacts (Archimate, C4, UML models, etc.
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile
• Understanding of Open-Source Frameworks (Apache, Spring, etc.)
• Understanding cross-cutting architecture capabilities (Rules, Workflow, Security, etc.)
• Understanding the big picture view, non-functional requirements, and other practices such as observability, automation, etc.
• Understanding of architecture styles such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native applications.
• Understanding of well-architected framework for cloud deployments.
Preferably good understanding and experience in the airline domain

Leadership Role: No