Applications Architect

Responsibilities

• Assessing Current Application Architecture: Analyze the existing application architecture to identify opportunities for improvement, optimization, and alignment with business objectives. Ensure that current applications support scalability, performance, and security requirements.
• Gap Analysis & Transformation Roadmap: Perform detailed gap analysis between the current and target application architectures. Develop a practical and phased IT transformation roadmap, outlining clear steps to close the identified gaps and ensuring the architecture evolves effectively over time.
• Developing RFPs: Lead the development of comprehensive and clear Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for application-related solutions, ensuring that they capture all technical and business requirements while maintaining alignment with the target architecture.
• Change Request Assessment: Review and assess incoming change requests, providing guidance on their impact on the existing application architecture. Ensure changes are in line with the target architecture and advise stakeholders on feasibility and potential risks.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain clear documentation of application architecture designs, decisions, and guidelines. Share knowledge and best practices with the development team, ensuring they understand the architectural vision and follow established principles.
• Drives the creation and update of the Target Application Architecture based on priority business requirements.
• TOGAF, SOA.
• Ensures application architecture alignment with the organization objectives, collaborates with other domain architects to ensure alignment.
• Ensures initiatives and projects conform to Application Architecture direction, best practices, beige standards.
• Establishes and implements architectural conformance.
• Monitors technology advancements and adapts the implementation of the Target Application Architecture as appropriate.
• Helps drive project teams to design, develop and deliver EA compliant initiatives and projects including alignment to the Target Integration Architecture vision, direction.
• Measures the integration maturity model and proposes initiatives to improve the level of Organization integration maturity.
• Ensures initiatives and projects conform to EA Integration Architecture standards through the Governance Framework.
• Drives initiative reviews from an Enterprise Architecture perspective.
• Identifies and manages a prioritization of integration gaps and drives recommended solutions across the EA .
• Supports EA Governance and Change Management Processes.
• Fluently spoken in Arabic and English.
• Business Unit: Strategy & Transformation
• Level: Mid

Benefits

Additional Information

Summary Introduction: The Application Architect will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing the organization's application architecture to meet both current and future business needs. This role involves assessing existing application frameworks, developing target architecture based on industry best practices, and driving the evolution of the application landscape through strategic transformation. You will work closely with stakeholders to ensure that application solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with overall business goals. Additionally, you will evaluate and recommend IT solutions, support governance processes, and oversee the integration of new technologies within the enterprise ecosystem.

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