Al Futtaim
Enterprise Architect – Financial Services (Group Technology & Digital Platforms)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 15 - 20 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 16/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
01/09/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 50,000 - 60,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
15 - 20 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
16/10/2025
Job description
The Enterprise Architect – Financial Services at Al-Futtaim Group will define and govern holistic enterprise architectures including application, business, data, integration, and cloud for the Financial Services line of business. The role involves designing target enterprise architecture aligned with business and IT strategies, performing maturity assessments, conducting solution impact analyses, and leading technology evaluations through RFIs/RFPs. The architect will assess application portfolios, define technology standards, and support emerging technology evaluations. This role ensures regulatory compliance, drives architectural best practices, and leads workshops with stakeholders while participating in governance activities.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Design target enterprise architecture for Financial Services aligned with business and IT strategy
- Create business architecture models and capability roadmaps
- Perform impact analysis for business demands and define solution approaches
- Evaluate and recommend technology selections during RFIs/RFPs
- Assess and optimize application portfolio for consolidation, upgrades, or retirement
- Define application and technology standards and create strategic roadmaps
- Conduct research on emerging technologies and recommend usage to bridge capability gaps
- Lead proof of concept and proof of technology initiatives for new solutions
- Facilitate integration design sessions and scoping workshops with business and IT teams
- Participate and coordinate in enterprise architecture governance activities
Experience & skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master’s preferred
- 15+ years of enterprise architecture experience including 5+ years within financial services, ideally banking
- Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Experience with banking reference frameworks like BIAN
- Proficiency in architecture domains: business, data, application, and technology
- Expertise in EA toolsets, preferably LeanIX
- Strong communication skills across all organizational levels, including visualization and documentation
