First Abu Dhabi Bank
Principal Architect - Business Capabilities
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 26/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
11/09/2025
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
26/10/2025
Job description
Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. As Principal Architect - Business Capabilities, you will define, model, and manage the enterprise’s business capability landscape to support strategic alignment and transformation. You will serve as the authoritative owner of the capability map and its relationships to processes, journeys, services, and technology, ensuring capability-centric thinking is embedded across architecture, planning, and delivery practices. You will act as a key integrator between strategy, business design, and IT execution while embedding AI-driven insights and Agentic AI capabilities into business platforms and workflows.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Own and evolve the enterprise business capability map and underlying taxonomy.
- Maintain traceability between capabilities and key business architecture views: journeys, processes, value streams, services, and systems.
- Conduct capability assessments, maturity reviews, and heatmaps to identify transformation opportunities.
- Collaborate with strategy and transformation teams to map target capabilities and support gap analysis.
- Align capability changes with business cases, investment proposals, and roadmaps.
- Ensure capability information is available and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and planning tools.
- Support the definition of target operating models from a capability-centric perspective.
- Rationalize duplicate capabilities and simplify the landscape in line with target state architecture principles.
- Integrate business capabilities with enterprise data and AI foundations for real-time insights, automation, and compliance.
- Represent capability views in architecture governance forums and strategic planning sessions.
- Align with application, data, and solution architects to ensure consistent capability mapping and reuse.
- Promote cross-functional understanding and use of capabilities for solution design, sourcing decisions, and platform planning.
- Track and report capability maturity, coverage, duplication, and business alignment KPIs.
- Mentor architects and business analysts on capability modeling, usage, and evolution practices.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture practices, with a focus on business modeling discipline.
- Collaborate with AI and data teams to embed behavioral analysis, personalization engines, and intelligent compliance into capability platforms.
Experience & skills
- Mastery of business capability modeling at various abstraction levels.
- Ability to align capability evolution with strategic goals, regulatory changes, and business priorities.
- Experience in managing capability taxonomies, promoting reuse, and reducing duplication across domains.
- Skilled in mapping capabilities to business initiatives, programs, and technology enablers.
- Proficiency in modeling tools such as LeanIX, Mega, BizzDesign, Sparx EA and capability heatmaps.
- Strong engagement across business, enterprise architecture, and transformation teams.
- Experience embedding Agentic AI and domain-specific models into business platforms and workflows.
- Familiarity with enterprise data foundations, real-time analytics, and AI-enhanced monitoring.
- Proficiency in designing and deploying solutions on AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
- Experience with microservices, serverless computing, and containerization technologies.
- Knowledge of event streaming platforms and asynchronous system design.
- Ability to align capabilities and architecture with business value streams for optimized delivery.
