Job description

The Associate – Strategic Planning & Governance role within Aldar Corporate – Group Technology in Abu Dhabi supports the development, implementation, and monitoring of IT strategic plans and governance frameworks across the organization. The role focuses on aligning IT capabilities with business priorities while maintaining architectural standards, governance structures, and effective IT performance management across the enterprise. The position involves assisting in the development and periodic refresh of the group-wide digital strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and federated governance principles across multiple entities. The role supports formulation of digital objectives, initiatives, and performance metrics to ensure alignment between business and technology functions. The Associate contributes to annual IT budgeting processes, monitors expenditures, and provides variance analysis with corrective recommendations. The role also includes supporting the development and implementation of digital governance frameworks, policies, and procedures aligned with organizational standards. The candidate assists in organizing governance forums, preparing materials for steering committees, and supporting executive reporting requirements. The role involves contributing to enterprise architecture methodologies and frameworks to ensure interoperability and cohesive IT ecosystems across the group. Additionally, the Associate supports IT vendor and contract management activities, including license agreements and SLA monitoring across group entities. The role also includes tracking vendor performance, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards, and recommending service improvements. The position contributes to digitization framework development, including ideation through realization of digital initiatives, and supports evaluation of emerging technologies and preparation of business cases assessing feasibility, benefits, and costs. The role also supports change management and communication efforts to enhance adoption of digital initiatives across the organization.