Enterprise Architect

Experience:** 12+ Years

Location- Dubai

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to define, design, and govern enterprise-wide technology architecture aligned with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, CRM and ERP platforms, API Management, cloud architecture, application integration, and technology modernization.

The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, application teams, infrastructure teams, and technology leadership to develop scalable, secure, and cost-effective architecture solutions across enterprise applications and cloud environments.

## Key Responsibilities

- Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps, principles, standards, and technology reference architectures.

- Apply **TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)** and enterprise architecture methodologies to guide architecture development and governance.

- Design and oversee enterprise solutions involving **CRM and ERP platforms**, ensuring seamless integration with existing business applications.

- Define API-led integration strategies, API lifecycle governance, API security, versioning, monitoring, and reuse.

- Design and govern API Management solutions using platforms such as **Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, or Kong**.

- Develop cloud architecture strategies across **AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)**.

- Define cloud adoption, migration, modernization, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud strategies where appropriate.

- Ensure architecture solutions meet security, scalability, availability, performance, compliance, and business continuity requirements.

- Evaluate technology platforms, conduct architecture assessments, and recommend appropriate solutions.

- Define integration patterns involving REST APIs, SOAP, microservices, event-driven architecture, and middleware.

- Collaborate with CRM, ERP, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and application development teams.

- Establish architecture governance processes, design reviews, technology standards, and solution compliance checks.

- Identify opportunities to reduce technology complexity, optimize costs, improve interoperability, and modernize legacy applications.

- Translate business requirements into enterprise architecture blueprints, capability maps, solution designs, and implementation roadmaps.

Required Technical Skills

1. Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF

- Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture principles, frameworks, and governance.

- Practical knowledge of TOGAF ADM (Architecture Development Method).

- Experience with business, application, data, and technology architecture.

- Enterprise architecture roadmaps, capability mapping, architecture principles, and reference architectures.

- Familiarity with ArchiMate and architecture modelling tools is desirable.

2. CRM and ERP Architecture

- Experience designing and integrating enterprise CRM and ERP ecosystems.

- Exposure to platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, Oracle Fusion Cloud, or Oracle ERP Cloud.

- Understanding of business processes, application landscapes, master data, and enterprise application integration.

- Experience defining integration architecture across CRM, ERP, finance, supply chain, sales, and customer service applications.

3. API Management and Integration Architecture

- Strong understanding of API-led connectivity and enterprise integration patterns.

- Hands-on or architectural experience with API Management platforms such as:

- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

- Google Apigee

- Azure API Management

- AWS API Gateway

- Kong API Gateway

- Knowledge of REST, SOAP, OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and API security.

- Experience with API gateways, developer portals, throttling, rate limiting, monitoring, analytics, and API lifecycle management.

- Understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, message brokers, and integration middleware.

4. Cloud Architecture

- Strong architectural knowledge of at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.

- Experience with cloud-native architecture, networking, identity and access management, security, compute, storage, and databases.

- Knowledge of cloud migration strategies, application modernization, hybrid-cloud environments, and disaster recovery.

- Understanding of cloud governance, cost optimization, high availability, scalability, and resilience.

- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, serverless architecture, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps is desirable.

5. Security and Governance

- Knowledge of enterprise security architecture, IAM, data protection, encryption, and regulatory compliance.

- Experience with architecture risk assessments, technology standards, and design governance.

- Ability to balance business requirements, technical feasibility, security, and total cost of ownership.