At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Our Architecture team is on the market for an experience and dynamic Principal Solutions Architect.
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Job Purpose: The purpose of the role is to 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 and systems management requirements. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes.
What You will do:
- Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines, and practices.
- Provide expert consultancy and coaching on architectural patterns and solution designs to project teams.
- Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations.
- Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems.
- Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt, and overall solution performance.
- Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews.
- Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams.
- Manage, direct, inspire, and coach the work and capability of Solutions Architect and Senior Engineering resources.
- Own, manage, and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of complex/large projects, technical products, environments, and/or platforms.
- Act as a product owner and be accountable for proactively identifying, prioritizing, and overseeing the development of technical enablers, technical debts, quality improvements, and application modernization activities.
Qualifications & Experience
What you will bring:
- 10 years minimum experience in IT or architecture.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline.
- Hands-on experience in database technologies such as OraMS SQL Server, Couchbase, PostgreSQL, MariaDB in both on-premise and cloud with containers, virtual machines, and managed services.
- Good knowledge and understanding of database products in the market, evaluation approach, and their licensing models.
- Experience in using solutions related to database management, data masking, archival, recovery, data storage, data privacy, Change Data Capture (CDC), and security.
- Experience in architecting and implementing non-functional aspects and HA/DR/Backup/Maintenance strategies to meet SLAs.
- Experience in development of large scale, complex, distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments.
- Technical leadership in leading a group of technical architects and senior developers.
- Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
- In-depth understanding of technologies such as Java, ERP, Cloud, open source frameworks, low code platforms, Big data, BI, data warehouses, observability, automation, network and infrastructure, mobile & frontend technologies, AI/ML, container management platforms, database, integration, digital workplace, DevOps, IoT, Blockchain, web 3.0, contact centre, mainframe, service management platforms, messaging, cyber security, etc.
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile.
- Understanding of industry-standard software modeling techniques such as ArchiMate, C4, and UML.
- Understanding of architecture styles such as microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native applications.
- Understanding of well-architected framework for cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Good understanding and experience in the airline domain.
- Ideally certification in at least one of the areas-Cloud Architecture, IASA.
Desired Skills:
- Oracle Database Architecture will be a big advantage.
Leadership Role: NO
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.
