Principal Solutions Architect-Database Permanent

Role: Principal Solutions Architect
Location: Dubai, UAE
Job Type: Permanent Employment

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 an 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 by analysing and understanding the 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. Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and
solution designs for use in solutions.
– Provide expert consultancy and coaching on architectural patterns and solution designs to
project teams. Guide and mentor the teams through the entire solution development lifecycle.
– Scout the market and track technology advancements and new business innovations,
determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms, and patterns, and
lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the
technology landscape. Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging
relevant IT teams.
– Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions,
and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the
architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development
practices.
– Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications regarding solution costs,
delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt, and overall solution performance.
Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the
need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate
use of architectural patterns.

– Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects follow the
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. Additionally, be accountable
for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with
peer architects and engineering teams.
– 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.
– 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 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-premises 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 developing 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 one or more 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 big-picture view, non-functional requirements, and design patterns.
– 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 – Significant experience of major
systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed
– 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
Attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including
discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world.

Application Process:
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume to [email protected]