Business Domains Solutions Architect

Act as the strategic designer and planner of solutions in a technology environment through introducing the overall technical vision for a particular solution. Translate technical details into a language that management and non-technical stakeholders can understand.

Find and create the best technical solution among all possible alternatives to solve the existing business problems or satisfy new requirements while incorporating elements of cost effectiveness and value and in full alignment with Architecture Principles and Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture roadmaps.

Direct and orchestrate the activities of the rest of the domain architects and provide the required channel between the enterprise architecture and the technical architecture.

key responsibilities:

• Lead the process of developing solutions to fit an enterprise architecture in terms of a business, information, and technical standpoint.
• Comprehends business strategies & requirements and develop necessary designs & plans to ensure projects & solutions satisfy those needs.
• Take a set of requirements and turn them into a full-fledged architecture and design that is considered to be the blueprint of a successful solution.
• Provide advice and make decisions about which technologies would be suitable to use for various projects.
• Assess and evaluate risk as required and maintain full mitigation of operational risks by reducing the probability of failures in projects.
• Communicate with the different vendors and challenging the provided solutions with the vendor to be aligned with strategy.
• Develop the solutions viewpoints, in which the business and information technology viewpoints are combined into solutions that realize business capabilities to the Bank.
• Chair the High-Level Design Committee of any engagement and act as a contributing member of the project team from project inception to completion.
• Monitor consistently the scope of projects to assure the outcome quality.
• Present the solutions in the CARB meetings and respond to concerns raised by various stakeholders.
• Define and apply the architecture principles to guide solution decisions for the Bank and business roadmap.
• Coordinate solution architecture implementation and modification activities across the team to assure deliverables quality.
• Facilitate and lead the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations to assure the full emulation with our standards.
• Define standard rules for how to implement solutions in more unified or reusable ways, such as design patterns in order to standardize the implementation.
• Provides engagement and leadership through the selection and procurement process of product solutions as part of the architectural portfolio.
• Ensure that technology standards and IT best practices are maintained across the bank.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions' architectural initiatives.
• Updates job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging architecture practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications and maintaining personal networks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, MIS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics.
• Post-graduate degree Engineering, MIS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics is a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years related business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Systems Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture experience and total experience of 12+ years.
• Multi-disciplinary application of wide knowledge spanning business, data, and technology.
• EA practice certification e.g. TOGAF or Zachman is a plus.
• Strategic IT Planning and Roadmap development background.
• IT Solution Design background.
• Project Portfolio Management background.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills verbal and written.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively.

Skills:

• Excellent command of English and Arabic languages.
• Very good Leadership skills.
• Very good Communication and negotiations skills.
• Details oriented.
• Analytic thinking, problem solving and decision making.