About the Role
We need a Solution Architect who can turn business requirements into solution designs and defend those designs in front of development, infrastructure, and integration teams. This role owns the technical direction of the solution. It is not a documentation role but rather one where you will be expected to question vendor and internal proposals, identify weaknesses before delivery starts, and clearly communicate when a design does not meet the requirements, security standards, or budget.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end solution design across application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure layers.
- Produce architecture documents, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and integration and API specifications.
- Select architecture patterns and justify the choices, including trade-offs, cost, and risk.
- Review designs from developers, vendors, and infrastructure teams and challenge them on feasibility, scalability, performance, security, and supportability.
- Review integration approaches (REST, event-driven, batch, file-based) and test them against failure scenarios, volumes, and dependencies.
- Validate sizing, environment, and hosting assumptions (Dev/SIT/UAT/Production, cloud, and on-premises) with the infrastructure teams.
- Identify technical debt, bottlenecks, and single points of failure in existing systems and recommend fixes.
- Ensure delivered work matches the approved design and raise deviations early.
- Elicit and document business, functional, non-functional, and technical requirements (BRD, FRD, TRD, user stories).
- Trace every requirement to a design element and to a test case.
- Run workshops with business owners and translate their needs into clear technical deliverables.
- Support impact assessments on scope, effort, and timeline when requirements change.
- Act as the technical point of contact between business owners, delivery teams, and third-party vendors.
- Review vendor proposals and technical responses against signed scope and requirements.
- Advise project and delivery managers on technical risks, dependencies, and decisions that need escalation.
Requirements
- 8+ years in enterprise IT, with at least 4 years as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or equivalent.
- Hands-on delivery of API-led and system integration projects in enterprise or government environments.
- Practical background in business analysis, including requirements engineering and stakeholder management.
Technical Skills
- API design: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON/XML, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
- Integration platforms and API gateways, plus authentication and authorization (OAuth2, SSO, UAE PASS or similar).
- Cloud and infrastructure fundamentals: networking, environments, availability, DR, and security architecture.
- Relational databases, SQL, and data mapping.
- UML, BPMN 2.0, and sequence diagrams using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or Enterprise Architect.
- Agile delivery in Jira or Azure DevOps.
Certifications
- Mandatory: TOGAF Foundation.
- Mandatory (one of): AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or above) or Azure AZ-305.
- Preferred: CBAP or PMI-PBA.
Languages
- Arabic: native or fluent, for business and stakeholder communication.
- English: fluent, business and technical.
