Principal Enterprise Architect

Landmark Digital As a part of the Landmark Group, a renowned retail and hospitality conglomerate in the Middle East, North Africa, and India, Landmark Digital is the dynamic digital arm of Landmark Retail, serving as the cornerstone of our omnichannel business strategy. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we oversee the digital operations of eight leading brands across diverse geographies, with ambitious plans for expansion into new territories and functions. Joining us means becoming a vital part of the Middle East's most significant bricks-to-clicks success story, boasting an impressive year-on-year growth rate exceeding 100%. Comprising a talented workforce of over 700 professionals across diverse domains, Landmark Digital spearheads various functions including Enterprise and E-commerce Tech, Product Management, User Design, and MarTech, among others. With our futuristic outlook, we are committed to delivering seamless digital experiences to our customers. Job Specification - Principal Enterprise Architect - As a senior leader you will be responsible for shaping and governing how the organization’s strategy is translated into an integrated and scalable enterprise technology direction. The role ensures that systems, platforms, data, and digital initiatives are aligned with enterprise priorities, deliver measurable value, and support future ready growth. Additionally, provides strategic guidance, ensures disciplined decision making, and establishes guardrails through standards that reduce complexity, manage risk, and enable the organization to operate efficiently and adapt to change. Key Focus Areas: • Business and Technology Alignment • Architecture Governance and Decision Making • Modernization of IT assets (Simplification and Optimization) • Advisory and Collaboration • Future Readiness and/or 10X Growth • AI-Enabled Architecture Design • Drive Innovation Job Description • Comprehensive understanding and implementation of contemporary systems and technology • Define enterprise portfolio roadmap that meets specific business needs. • Provide overall governance, guidance, and architecture leadership for cross domains capabilities by influencing business and IT Team. • Design and sustain programs for architecture roadmaps, health check scorecard(s), and solution review assessment. • Plan and schedule analysis and system implementation. • Conceptualize a comprehensive roadmap and conceptual, logical, and executable strategies to extemporize business and technology solutions. • Conduct and oversee the preparation of initiative reports that include findings, presentations, recommendations, and instructions for proposed system implementation, formulate logical descriptions of problems, and devise and implement optimum solutions. • Providing design and deployment of new and revised methods that effectively meet business needs. • Provide expertise in the development of IT operations and management information system plans. • Provide architectural expertise on strategic planning actions and policy decisions related to the business system and make recommendations concerning the direction of IT amalgamation within the business structure. • Identify audit gaps in the current system and propose approaches and solutions to fill the gaps AI-Enabled Application Architecture • Identify practical opportunities to embed AI, automation, machine learning, and generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications and business processes. • Guide application teams on AI-enabled solution patterns, including intelligent search, document processing, recommendation engines, conversational interfaces, workflow automation, and decision support. • Ensure AI-enabled application designs consider data quality, privacy, security, access control, auditability, explainability, operational support, and responsible AI principles. • Work with data, integration, security, infrastructure, and platform teams to ensure AI solutions are properly connected to enterprise data, APIs, cloud services, and application platforms. • Support evaluation of AI tools, platforms, APIs, and vendor capabilities to determine fit-for-purpose use cases and enterprise adoption. • Ensure AI capabilities are designed as part of the application architecture, not as disconnected experiments or standalone proof of concepts. Application Modernization • Support legacy application assessment, rationalization, modernization, and simplification initiatives. • Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, remove duplication, consolidate platforms, and improve application maintainability. • Guide modernization approaches, including re-platforming, refactoring, replacement, cloud adoption, containerization, and service enablement. • Partner with business and technology teams to define practical transition states from the current architecture to the target architecture. Infrastructure and Security Aware Application Design • Ensure application designs properly consider hosting, compute, storage, network, identity, access, security controls, performance, resilience, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support requirements. • Work closely with infrastructure and security architects to align application designs with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, network, and security standards. • Incorporate security by design principles including identity and access management, role based access, encryption, secure APIs, data protection, vulnerability management, and compliance needs. • Validate that applications are designed for availability, scalability, observability, supportability, and production readiness. Cloud and Platform Enablement • Guide the use of cloud services, enterprise platforms, DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, environment strategy, and deployment patterns. • Support application teams in adopting cloud native and platform capabilities where they provide business and technical value. • Ensure cloud and platform choices are secure, scalable, cost effective, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards. • Collaborate with platform, DevOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve delivery speed, reliability, and operational maturity. Cross Domain Application Alignment • Work closely with enterprise, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and platform architects to ensure application solutions are aligned across the broader technology landscape. • Ensure application designs properly address integration points, data movement, master data needs, reporting dependencies, security controls, infrastructure impact, and operational dependencies. • Maintain clear ownership boundaries with specialized architecture domains while ensuring end-to-end solution integrity. • Identify reuse opportunities across applications, platforms, services, APIs, and shared technical capabilities. Architecture Governance & Compliance Alignment • Work with the Architecture Review Board, enterprise architecture team, and domain architects to ensure application and technical solution designs follow

Provide architecture governance and leadership to translate business strategy into an integrated and scalable enterprise technology direction. Define enterprise portfolio roadmap to meet business needs. Govern cross-domain capabilities and influence business and IT teams. Design and sustain architecture roadmaps, health check scorecards, and solution review assessments. Plan analyses and system implementations. Develop comprehensive roadmaps and executable strategies to optimize business and technology solutions. Prepare initiative reports with findings, recommendations, and implementation instructions. Develop and deploy new or revised methods to meet business needs. Build IT operations and management information system plans. Advise on strategic planning actions and policy decisions related to the business system and IT amalgamation. Identify audit gaps and propose remediation approaches.