Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Standards

Role Purpose To lead enterprise architecture and standards governance by defining, enforcing, and evolving Omantel’s target?state digital & technology architecture across applications, platforms, data, integration, and security domains—ensuring scalability, compliance, resilience, and long?term platform integrity. Position Information • Unit: Digital & Technology • Division: Technology • Location: Muscat • Grade: L2 • Minimum role requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline • 8 years’ experience with 3 years in a management position Key Accountabilities • Own and govern the target?state enterprise architecture blueprint • Approve solution architectures prior to build and implementation • Ensure alignment of initiatives with strategic architecture principles • Prevent duplication, fragmentation, and technical debt accumulation • Define and enforce architecture standards, design principles, and integration frameworks • Govern compliance with scalability, resilience, security, and TelCo?grade performance requirements • Review and adjudicate architectural deviations and exceptions • Provide architecture oversight across applications, platforms, APIs, and data domains • Ensure reusable, modular, and API?first design patterns • Validate cloud, on?prem, and hybrid deployment architectures • Safeguard long?term platform coherence and interoperability • Prevent vendor lock?in and structural dependency risks • Ensure architectural sustainability and modernization alignment • Chair architecture review boards and governance councils • Establish structured approval workflows for major technology decisions • Maintain traceability between strategic intent and solution design • lign architecture decisions with: • Platforms & Engineering • Data & AI • Digital Service Operations • Security & Risk • Ensure operational stability and service continuity considerations are embedded in designs • Evaluate emerging technologies and modernization opportunities • Guide evolution toward scalable digital platform ecosystems • Balance innovation with governance discipline • Ensure architectural compliance with cybersecurity, regulatory, and audit standards • Govern risk exposure related to structural or design weaknesses • Maintain documentation and audit?ready architecture artifacts • Ensure architecture alignment across the digital portfolio and demand pipeline • Support GM Portfolio & Governance in sequencing initiatives • Validate feasibility relative to engineering capacity and architectural constraints Key Competencies Leadership • Assertiveness and Conflict Resolution • Fostering Learning and Development • Inspiring and Leading Others • Leading Change and Cultivates Innovation • Visioning and Alignment Behavioral • Drives Achievements • Ethics & Compliance • Timely Decision - Making