Principle Solutions Architect

Description & Requirements

• At Emirates IT, we are dedicated to staying ahead of the curve by embracing the latest technologies and strategies to streamline integration processes and enhance infrastructure efficiency. As a valued member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our integration landscape, ensuring smooth data flow and system interoperability across our enterprise platforms. If you are passionate about creating seamless integration solutions and driving technological excellence, we invite you to apply and to contribute to the success of Emirates Group.
• As a Solutions Architect, you will architect, design, and communicate a system's high-level structural and behavioural aspects, to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs, in alignment with corporate IT standards and architecture guiding principles. This necessitates engagement throughout the lifecycle of projects by taking full responsibility for the solution architecture.
• Design, develop and govern the solution architecture of the Group in alignment with corporate business and IT strategies, ensuring appropriate balance between functional, service quality, systems management requirements and business objectives. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes.
• In this role, you will:
• Define and drive the overarching architectural intent for discoveries, connecting solution architects, products, SMEs, and other stakeholders. Provide guidance and support to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
• Act as a key solution architect for large-scale initiatives, connecting architects throughout the development and implementation process. Drive the holistic architectural intent across Agile Release Trains (ARTs) within the same portfolio and across portfolios, ensuring consistency and alignment.
• Serve as an escalation point for solution architecture issues, facilitating communication and engagement with internal and external teams. Ensure that developed solutions align with architectural intent, maintain high-quality standards, and address any escalated issues promptly and effectively.
• Support the driving of architectural enablers, such as APIs and technical debt management, within the portfolio. Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to validate and certify architectural intent, and architectural decision records (ADRs), and manage deviations effectively.