Lead Application Architect

• Develop and maintain application architecture models, documentation, and guidelines.
• Design comprehensive integrated systems that meet business requirements.
• Create application architectures that align with business objectives, technical needs, and industry best practices.
• Ensure applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and performant.
• Establish and enforce architectural guidelines, standards, and frameworks for application development.
• Evaluate and select suitable technologies, platforms, and tools. Utilize business modeling methods to ensure deliverables are results oriented.
• Review, analyze, and assess ideas, projects, and opportunities to develop new solutions, technologies, and business models for various business segments.
• Collaborate across business segments to identify opportunities and showcase ideas within the innovation and emerging business pipeline.
• Develop solution architecture models that demonstrate how products, operations, and systems interact within the organization.
• Conduct analyses to determine the best approaches for solving business problems or opportunities, which may include process improvements, system enhancements, or software procurement.
• Work with technical and business teams to evaluate and select new emerging technologies, vendors, and applications.
• Identify complex problems with multiple variables and risks within the application landscape.
• Provide solution design inputs for ongoing application projects.
• Ensure that application architecture diagrams are developed and kept up to date.
• Effectively respond to stakeholder concerns, demonstrating cultural awareness and adaptability in a diverse, multinational environment.
• Other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field.
• 6-8 years of relevant full-time work experience in IT environment.
• Experience in Enterprise systems and platform (i.e. BPM, ECM, ERP, CRM, Portal, and Web information system, Azure).
• Must have a complete understanding of the tools, techniques, and challenges of managing medium to large scale IT team.
• Knowledge and certification in best practice frameworks and processes in SDLC, ITIL Services Management, TOGAF and PMI.
• Must be able to analyse user problems related to information systems business solutions and convert problem formulations to computer process-able format.
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to draft and edit a variety of written reports and communications and to articulate ideas clearly and concisely; Arabic proficiency is an advantage.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications

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