Solution Architect - Architecture Community of Practice

Job Purpose At Emirates IT, we are dedicated to staying ahead of the curve by embracing the latest technologies and strategies to streamline integration processes and enhance infrastructure efficiency. As a valued member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our integration landscape, ensuring smooth data flow and system interoperability across our enterprise platforms. If you are passionate about creating seamless integration solutions and driving technological excellence, we invite you to apply and to contribute to the success of Emirates Group. As a Solution Architect - Architecture Community of Practice, 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. Qualification To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline. • 8+ years of experience in designing and developing large-scale, complex, distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments. Knowledge/Skills • Community Leadership & Cross Functional Collaboration and Communication - Ability to build, grow, and sustain an engaged community of practice (Guild) across teams and domains, and strong ability to connect architects, engineering teams, platform teams, and leadership to drive alignment, engagement, and shared outcomes. • Technical Evangelism and Influence - Ability to drive communication and adoption of architecture standards, modern engineering practices, and innovation through influence rather than authority. • Builder Mindset - Hands-on technical capability to create prototypes, reference architectures, accelerators, and proof of concepts to lead by example. • Learning, Mentorship, and Upskilling - Experience enabling continuous learning through mentoring, workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, and technical coaching. • Innovation and Multi-Channel Communication - Ability to and/or experience with, creating videos, presentations, webpages, Confluence pages and dynamic graphics that communicate, explain and persist information and make complex topic easy to grasp and share. • 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.). Leadership Role: No Salary & benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. 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. Show more Show less

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline. 8+ years of experience in designing and developing large-scale, complex, distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments.

Develop optimal, fit-for-purpose IT architecture solutions aligned with customer requirements and corporate IT standards. Create and maintain Enterprise Architecture standards and guidelines across information, application, and technology domains. Conduct technology evaluations and PoCs to demonstrate business value. Establish guidelines for component designs and promote reuse of solutions, platforms, and services. Mentor development teams in engineering practices and provide expert consultancy. Conduct architecture reviews of vendor products and critical applications, offering recommendations for improvements. Align logical infrastructure with standards and ensure the final solution meets non-functional requirements. Collaborate with Manager Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with architecture principles. Own and maintain architecture roadmaps for initiatives and act as a product owner for technical enablers and modernization activities. Drive architecture decisions with consideration for costs, delivery schedules, complexity, technical debt, and performance.