Solutions Architect - National Housing Loans

Job Description

• Ensure business requirements are correctly translated into technical specifications in line with enterprise architecture
• Architect, build, and maintain cost-efficient, scalable cloud environments for the organization.
• Design & manage Technical architecture analysis, research and design of new functionality and integration for required applications and services
• Understand Customer requirements and business objectives of the company and create cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.
• Collaborate with business, enterprise architecture, information security, data, application & infrastructure teams to produce an optimal, conceptual, and cost effective design.
• Produce component level specification and translate into detailed for development and implementation
• Move monolithic systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the organization - aka digital transformation.
• Keep cloud solutions secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.
• Determine the risk associated with third-party platforms or frameworks.
• Designing, modifying, and ensuring through the SDLC process the technical architecture is aligned as part of the development
• Continually evaluating the development to ensure alignment to the solution architecture design while ensuring alignment to the architectural principles and framework
• Provide architecture and design guidance to the development team
• Ensure that the development team develops, configures and implements the solution as per solution architecture standards in line with enterprise architecture
• Keeping up to date on best practices in cloud computing and making improvements to the cloud infrastructure.
• Review and guide testing team to prepare test plans and acceptance criteria

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or related Information Technology field
• Minimum 10 years of overall previous experience in IT related field including
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in design and development of software
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in developing solution architecture
• Background in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps
• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures that involves Camunda Workflow, Azure AD (IdP, Oauth2, OpenID, SAML), Azure Cloud (AKS, Event Hub, Blob Storage), and Mobile App (Flutter).
• Strong foundation knowledge of solution architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes. Ability to consistently apply them in real-world scenarios with a pragmatic, system thinking, and problem-solving mindset by analyzing architecture trade-offs for delivering high-quality, sustainable, and cost-effective solution architecture.
• Passion for technology and for learning.
• Experience in Agile Project Methodology and framework
• Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in software engineering and design architecture
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Leadership skills are essential
• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
• Positive outlook in meeting challenges and working to a high level
• Advanced understanding of business analysis techniques and processes

• Masters degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or related Information Technology field
• Advanced expertise in SDLC - Agile and DevOps is beneficial
• Proven ability to drive change through influence and collaboration across a matrix organization in a highly fluid environment.
• Azure Cloud certifications
• Financial industry knowledge (Highly desirable
• Exceptional written and verbal communicator

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About Company

FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions offers a an extensive range of tailor-made solutions, and products and services, to provide a customised banking experience. Through its strategic offerings, it looks to meet the banking needs of customers across the world via its market-leading Corporate and Investment Banking and Personal Banking franchises.
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, in Khalifa Business Park, the bank’s international network spans over 19 countries, across the world, providing the global relationships, expertise and financial strength to support local, regional and international businesses seeking to do business at home and abroad. In line with its commitment to put customers first, to Grow Stronger, FAB will continually invest in people and technology to create the most customer-friendly banking experience and will support the growth ambitions of its stakeholders across the global network in which the bank operates.