Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
· Lead the end-to-end design of innovative, efficient, and scalable solutions that address complex business challenges and align with enterprise architecture principles
· Collaborate with business stakeholders and analysts to gather, analyze, and understand requirements, ensuring a clear comprehension of the problem domain and user needs.
· Provide expert technical guidance and leadership to development teams, making critical design decisions, and ensuring alignment with best practices.
· Develop comprehensive solution architectures that promote reusability, scalability, and adherence to enterprise standards.
· Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, proposing innovative solutions that drive business value and competitive advantage
· Create and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of solution designs, architectural diagrams, and implementation guidelines.
· Identify potential risks in solution designs and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
· Collaborate effectively with project managers, developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
· Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and skill development.
· Participate in post-implementation reviews to assess the effectiveness of solutions and identify areas for improvement.
Desired Candidate Profile
· Minimum 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years as a full stack developer, and at least 3 years as a Solution Designer, in a reputable Bank or Software vendor.
· Banking/financial services industry experience is essential.
· Practical experience in using Enterprise Architecture and Design tools.
· Expose to managing a small sized team of IT professionals.
· Experience in vendor engagement, communication and management
· Experience of developing and implementing digital Enterprise platforms in financial services
· Track record of success designing digital initiatives using agile development methodology
· Skilled at aligning organization and business goals and Enterprise Architecture standards
· Solid understanding of IT security and ability to work with security professionals to implement and support best practices
· Experienced with both on premise and cloud technology solutions
· Business process analysis and redesign experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process redesign and implementation.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (Required)
· Good knowledge of standards and best practices and understanding of system control requirements and processes
· Extensive experience working with Open Source tools
· Cloud Architecture experience
· Good knowledge and experience of project management
· Knowledge of analytics and big data reporting platforms (Azure/AWS). Ability to understand the business and develop reporting recommendations
· Good knowledge and experience in banking digital applications
· Overall understanding of IT Infrastructure environment
· Good knowledge & experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages
· Good command of English. Arabic language would be an added advantage.
· Planning and organizing skills
Professional Qualifications (Desired)
· Professional certification in Project Management (PMP) and Program Management (PgMP)
· ITIL V4 (F)/ HDI-SCTL
· Database Trainings and certifications in MS SQL/Oracle/DB2/MySQL/Postgres.
· CompTIA A+/MTA, ITAM/CHAMP
· MSCA (Win 2012/2016)/AIX Tech Training/ LPIC-2/CompTIA Linux+
· CCENT
· CEH/CISSP/CompTIA-Security +
· CCSP, CCNA-Cloud, CCSK
· Formal training/Certification in MS Azure/Amazon AWS/Oracle Cloud/SAP Cloud/IBM Cloud.
· Digital Transformation (Any), RPA/ML/AI (Any), CAP.
· Certification/Training in Distributed Enterprise IT Architecture, Middleware, Web Server
· CSSLP, ISO 20022/ISO8583
· TOGAF 9.
· Formal Training/Certification in Banking Application Development.
· Formal Training/Certification in SDLC techniques.
· Formal Training/Certification in Business Analysis