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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 experienced and dynamic Principal Solutions Architect.
What You will do
- Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
- Provide expert consultancy and coaching on architectural patterns and solution designs to project teams.
- Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns.
- 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, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
- Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/driver role in Teams of Teams or Agile/ Release Trains.
- Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of Solutions Architect and Senior Engineering resources as required, and engage in, and lead, a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts, and business managers.
Qualifications & Experience
What you will bring
Qualifications and Experience:
- 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.
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.
