ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Banking -ABU DHABI

Key Requirements:

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture roles within the banking sector is a MUST.
• Very strong expertise in architecture design, cloud technologies, microservices, API management, and data architecture is also a MUST.
• Open Group TOGAF9 Certification is preferred.
• Strong experience of 10-15 years in the banking industry in the technology division is required.
• Extensive experience in Tier-1 international banks in Europe, US or Singapore is MANDATORY to APPLY.

The first round is a 1-hour online test on Gorilla, which is mandatory. Please only apply for this role if you can commit to taking this test.

Responsibilities:

• Recommend long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the Bank’s long-term business objectives.
• Understand business challenges through discovery sessions and streamline internal processes to improve service delivery and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Provide thought leadership and direction to IT departments in service and solution delivery.
• Study the maturity, adoption, and business application of specific technologies.
• Application portfolio management including management of As-Is information, assessment and recommendation to eliminate overlaps.
• Manage IT risk profile in alignment with enterprise risk management plan.
• Scenario planning – what-if analysis of emerging and disruptive technologies and innovations.
• Define standards and policies pertaining to technology processes, products, and patterns.
• Share best practices, lessons learned, and update enterprise architecture based on emerging technologies and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
• Analyze complex problem situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities, impacts, and risks while developing and implementing plans and solution deliverables.
• Ensure architectural documentation of current implementations, prototyping, performance testing, and scalability plans.

Skills: API management, enterprise architecture, data architecture, cloud technologies, architecture, application portfolio management, API, risk management, architecture design, solution architecture, enterprise, scenario planning, banking software, microservices.