Application Architect
Role Overview
Define, govern, and evolve enterprise application architecture so applications, integrations, data exchanges, and technology choices support business capabilities and digital strategy.
Provide architecture direction for application modernization, solution design, and portfolio rationalization.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Purpose
Define, govern, and evolve enterprise application architecture so applications, integrations, data exchanges, and technology choices support business capabilities and digital strategy.
Provide architecture direction for application modernization, solution design, and portfolio rationalization.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain application portfolios, architecture views, reference architectures, and lifecycle roadmaps.
- Assess application fit, health, technical debt, duplication, integration dependencies, and business alignment.
- Define target-state architecture, rationalization recommendations, and transition roadmaps.
- Review solution designs, architecture documents, and non-functional requirements for compliance with enterprise standards.
- Work with solution, data, infrastructure, security, and integration teams on coherent end-to-end designs.
- Establish traceability across business capabilities, processes, applications, data, interfaces, and technology components.
- Support modernization, cloud adoption, package selection, and migration initiatives.
- Contribute to architecture governance, design reviews, exception management, standards, and repository quality.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- At least five years of relevant experience in application architecture, solution architecture, systems analysis and design, application portfolio management, or a related role.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience with enterprise applications, APIs and integrations, application lifecycle management, and modernization.
- TOGAF certification is required or strongly preferred.
- ArchiMate, cloud architecture, integration, ITIL, or relevant platform certifications are advantageous.
Required Knowledge and Skills
- Strong understanding of application architecture patterns, API-led integration, service-oriented design, and application lifecycle management.
- Practical knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate application-layer modeling and the ability to create actionable architecture views.
- Experience assessing application portfolios, technical debt, application health, fit-for-purpose, and rationalization opportunities.
- Familiarity with cloud, security, data, and integration considerations in enterprise solution design.
- Strong stakeholder-management, analytical, documentation, and design-review skills.
Language Requirements
- Very good business English is required.
- Arabic language ability is beneficial.
Key Deliverables
Application portfolio and lifecycle or health assessment.
Current-state and target-state application architecture views.
Application reference architectures, standards, and design principles.
Application rationalization and modernization roadmap.
Application-to-capability, data, and integration traceability.
Workplace
- The source metadata identifies the workplace as onsite in Doha, Qatar.
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