
Emirates Investment Authority
Senior Manager, Business Solutions & Digital Transformation
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 08/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
24/03/2026
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
08/05/2026
Job description
The Senior Manager, Business Solutions & Digital Transformation at EIA in Abu Dhabi is responsible for leading enterprise business application delivery and digital transformation initiatives aligned with strategic, investment, and operational objectives. The role bridges business and technology, ensuring scalable, secure, and digitally-enabled solutions across ERP, investment, and workflow platforms. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, driving automation and AI-enabled solutions, facilitating requirements workshops, ensuring governance and compliance, managing vendors, and overseeing system integrations. The role also focuses on stakeholder management, translating business strategy into actionable solutions, leading a capable Business Solutions team, and promoting modern delivery practices and continuous improvement. The position demands expertise in enterprise applications, digital platforms, AI concepts, cloud integration, automation technologies, and the ability to operate within highly governed environments such as financial services or sovereign wealth funds.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Define and execute Business Solutions and Digital Transformation strategy aligned with organizational priorities and technology roadmap
- Lead delivery, enhancement, and support of enterprise business applications, including ERP, investment systems, and workflow platforms
- Translate business requirements into actionable solution designs in collaboration with architecture, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity teams
- Drive modernization of legacy systems through cloud adoption, platform consolidation, and digital enablement
- Lead digital transformation initiatives including process digitization, simplification, automation, and AI-enabled enhancements
- Identify and define automation and AI use cases using process decomposition, value-stream mapping, and mind mapping techniques
- Support integration of AI-enabled capabilities ensuring appropriate human-in-the-loop, transparency, and governance controls
- Act as primary technology interface for business units, managing demand intake, prioritization, and delivery
- Facilitate requirements workshops, solution design thinking, and process discovery sessions
- Ensure all solutions comply with IT governance, architecture standards, cybersecurity policies, and data governance requirements
- Manage vendor and system integrator relationships, including SLAs and delivery performance
- Support audits, risk assessments, and compliance reviews related to business systems and digital platforms
- Lead, develop, and mentor the Business Solutions team, fostering modern delivery practices and continuous improvement
Experience & skills
- 12–15 years of experience in IT, business systems, or digital solution delivery
- Minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing enterprise applications or digital transformation initiatives
- Experience in financial services, investment organizations, or sovereign wealth funds preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or related field; Master's or professional certifications preferred
- Proven track record delivering complex, enterprise-wide technology and digital transformation programs
- Strong knowledge of enterprise applications, digital platforms, automation, and AI concepts
- Experience with systems integration, cloud platforms, and application modernization
- Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills
- Ability to translate business strategy into effective digital and technology solutions
- Working knowledge of application architectures, integrations, programming, infrastructure, and networking
- Experience promoting modern delivery practices, continuous improvement, and team capability development