Enterprise Architect (TOGAF certified, 4 months contract)
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**Contract duration:** 4 months
**Start date:** July 2026
**Location:** Abu Dhabi (on-site presence minimum of 4 days per working week)
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect **(TOGAF-certified)** to support a large-scale enterprise architecture refresh project for one of our key clients.
The role will focus on defining end-to-end enterprise architecture, shaping solution design across technology domains, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and digital platforms.
The architect will drive roadmap development, governance, and structured implementation planning across application, data & AI, and technology layers.
Enterprise Architecture & Roadmap
- Define enterprise architecture across application, technology, data & AI, and network domains
- Assess current-state capabilities and develop a structured roadmap of initiatives across architecture layers
- Align architecture priorities with business and transformation objectives
Solution Architecture Design
- Develop solution architectures for key platforms, including data platforms, data architecture and governance, AI architecture and governance and AI-enabled solutions
- Define implementation layers (business, data, application, technology)
- Ensure integration across IT and OT systems where applicable
Governance & Standards
- Support establishment of architecture governance structures and review processes
- Define principles, standards, and guardrails across architecture domains
- Ensure consistency and alignment across initiatives
Documentation & Tools
- Lead structured documentation of architectures using enterprise architecture tools (e.g., ArchiMate or similar)
- Tools and technology assessment
- Maintain architecture repositories, solution diagrams, and technical documentation
- Support use of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF)
Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into architectural designs
- Support workshops, alignment sessions, and solution validation
- Provide guidance on prioritization and sequencing of initiatives
Candidate Requirements
- **TOGAF Certification (mandatory)**
- Strong experience (minimum 5 years) in enterprise architecture across application, data, and technology domains
- Proven experience in data and AI solution architecture
- Experience in solution architecture design across IT/OT environments
- Hands-on experience with architecture modelling tools (e.g., ArchiMate or equivalent)
- Experience in initiative planning, roadmap development, and large-scale transformation programs
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture
- Experience working across multiple architecture layers (application, data, technology)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities
- Comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced transformation environments
Disclaimer
This job posting is not open to recruitment agencies.
Any candidate profile submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered to have been received directly from an applicant.
Contango reserves the right to contact the candidate directly, without incurring any obligations or liabilities for payment of any fees to the recruitment agency.
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