At the company, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers 'Fly Better'. The company Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we're always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We're on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry.
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In this pivotal role, you will define, develop, and govern the technology strategy for business portfolios in alignment with corporate business and IT objectives. You will set references and directions for technology investments, identify priorities for investment, and uncover new opportunities and business drivers. By providing improved IT responsiveness to business needs, you will increase speed, agility, and turnaround times. This role also focuses on improving IT transparency enterprise-wide, breaking down silos to foster global thinking and local action, and accelerating the move towards a real-time enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards and guiding principles by analysing and understanding the potential impact of those changes on both IT and the business.
- Provide technology leadership, expert consultancy, and coach solution architects and development teams.
- Lead the team by coaching, creating development plans, and setting SMART goals to ensure delivery of service level agreements (SLA) and objectives.
- Scout the market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to the IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets.
- Take accountability for continuous improvement of the application and technology landscape by defining, planning, and driving technical enablers, managing technical debt, and ensuring modernised roadmaps and updated architecture runways.
- Acquire knowledge in the business portfolio domains and lead technology transformations for simplification, rationalization, and innovation by defining target and transition architectures for the portfolio in line with business and IT objectives.
- Be an evangelist of the Well-Architected Framework and ensure development teams understand and adopt such practices.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline.
- Experience in Information Technology and Enterprise Architecture.
- Close to 10 years of experience in the development of large scale complex, distributed, scalable mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments.
- Technical leadership and architecture experience with experience in leading a group of solution architects, directing strategic investments, and influencing delivery plans.
- Experience in developing technology strategies and solutions with an enterprise big picture view and the ability to zoom into solution details.
- Understanding of application development technologies such as Java, open source frameworks, cloud, low-code platforms, etc.
- Understanding of agile software development frameworks such as Scrum, Scaled Agile.
- Ideally, certification in at least one of the areas - TOGAF, IASA, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance, and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.
