Senior Digital Solution Designer (Enterprise Architect)

About This Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design of innovative, efficient, and scalable solutions that address complex business challenges and align with enterprise architecture principles
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and analysts to gather, analyze, and understand requirements, ensuring a clear comprehension of the problem domain and user needs.
• Provide expert technical guidance and leadership to development teams, making critical design decisions, and ensuring alignment with best practices.
• Develop comprehensive solution architectures that promote reusability, scalability, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, proposing innovative solutions that drive business value and competitive advantage
• Create and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of solution designs, architectural diagrams, and implementation guidelines.
• Identify potential risks in solution designs and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
• Collaborate effectively with project managers, developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and skill development.
• Participate in post-implementation reviews to assess the effectiveness of solutions and identify areas for improvement.

Work Experience (Required)

• Minimum 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years as a full stack developer, and at least 3 years as a Solution Designer, in a reputable Bank or Software vendor.
• Banking/financial services industry experience is essential.
• Practical experience in using Enterprise Architecture and Design tools.
• Expose to managing a small sized team of IT professionals.
• Experience in vendor engagement, communication and management
• Experience of developing and implementing digital Enterprise platforms in financial services
• Track record of success designing digital initiatives using agile development methodology
• Skilled at aligning organization and business goals and Enterprise Architecture standards
• Solid understanding of IT security and ability to work with security professionals to implement and support best practices
• Experienced with both on premise and cloud technology solutions
• Business process analysis and redesign experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process redesign and implementation.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (Required)

• Good knowledge of standards and best practices and understanding of system control requirements and processes
• Extensive experience working with Open Source tools
• Cloud Architecture experience
• Good knowledge and experience of project management
• Knowledge of analytics and big data reporting platforms (Azure/AWS). Ability to understand the business and develop reporting recommendations
• Good knowledge and experience in banking digital applications
• Overall understanding of IT Infrastructure environment
• Good knowledge & experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages
• Good command of English. Arabic language would be an added advantage.
• Planning and organizing skills

Professional Qualifications (Desired)

• Professional certification in Project Management (PMP) and Program Management (PgMP)
• ITIL V4 (F)/ HDI-SCTL
• Database Trainings and certifications in MS SQL/Oracle/DB2/MySQL/Postgres.
• CompTIA A+/MTA, ITAM/CHAMP
• MSCA (Win 2012/2016)/AIX Tech Training/ LPIC-2/CompTIA Linux+
• CCENT
• CEH/CISSP/CompTIA-Security +
• CCSP, CCNA-Cloud, CCSK
• Formal training/Certification in MS Azure/Amazon AWS/Oracle Cloud/SAP Cloud/IBM Cloud.
• Digital Transformation (Any), RPA/ML/AI (Any), CAP.
• Certification/Training in Distributed Enterprise IT Architecture, Middleware, Web Server
• CSSLP, ISO 20022/ISO8583
• TOGAF 9.
• Formal Training/Certification in Banking Application Development.
• Formal Training/Certification in SDLC techniques.
• Formal Training/Certification in Business Analysis