Lead Technical Architect (Platform NFR & Security)

About the Role

Your Duties Would Include

• Lead the organization roadmap and own best practices for application teams to improve the security posture of QR applications.
• Act as product owner for enterprise platforms, owning the platform roadmap, feature adoption, onboarding sequence, and entitlement policies.
• Define and govern platform standards across Azure and GCP, including subscription and project structure, configuration baselines, and deployment architecture in line with CyberGRC policies.
• Establish and lead FinOps practices including cost visibility, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, showback/chargeback, rightsizing, and license utilization tracking.
• Own the end-to-end platform lifecycle including onboarding, SLA and performance, capacity headroom, and change and release governance.
• Drive platform adoption and enablement across application teams and measure usage, value, and return on investment.
• Lead, mentor, and set direction for the platform team including platform architects, DevOps engineers, and program management.
• Ensure application deployment and connectivity architecture protects QR data and complies with QR policies.
• Establish an enterprise NFR framework covering availability, reliability, performance, scalability, observability, maintainability, auditing, and security.
• Define measurable NFR KPIs, SLAs, and SLOs across critical platforms including web, mobile, API, data, and AI workloads.
• Architect observability solutions using Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor.
• Lead deep-dive troubleshooting for complex production issues around network, proxy, firewall, and security incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Honors in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Sciences, or equivalent.
• 10+ years in architecture or system design roles with 3+ years focused on application security and NFRs and enterprise platform management.
• Hands-on experience managing and governing Azure and GCP platforms, networking, OpenShift/ARO, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform), and CI/CD.
• Proven FinOps experience including Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, cost allocation and chargeback models, commitment-based discounts, and licence optimization.
• Experience running shared enterprise platforms (event/messaging, integration middleware, AI or developer platforms), including onboarding, entitlement, adoption, and vendor/license management.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing.
• Deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing stacks (Dynatrace, ELK, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with API gateways, CDN, and WAF technologies (Akamai, Azure Front Door, F5).
• Knowledge of security standards (OAuth, SAML, TLS, encryption-at-rest/in-transit).
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organization skills.
• Certifications such as TOGAF or Azure/Google architecture expert are preferred.

About Qatar Airways Group

How To Apply

• Complete the application form and upload a CV for review and consideration.