Principal Solutions Architect - dnata

Emirates Group
Dubai
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["ReactJS","NodeJS","Java","Microservices","Open APIs","CI/CD","DevSecOps","Cloud","AWS","Azure","Automation","Observability","Frontend","Backend","API integration"]

Lead and govern enterprise solution architecture for Emirates Group IT, defining standards, evaluating new technologies, and guiding multi-team delivery. Drive architecture across programmes, provide expert reviews, and spearhead cloud-native, API-driven solutions with AWS/Azure experience, ensuring alignment with business goals and agile practices.

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Principal Solutions Architect - dnata

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Job Summary

Lead and govern enterprise solution architecture for Emirates Group IT, defining standards, evaluating new technologies, and guiding multi-team delivery. Drive architecture across programmes, provide expert reviews, and spearhead cloud-native, API-driven solutions with AWS/Azure experience, ensuring alignment with business goals and agile practices.
Location: Dubai
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
  • •Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape. Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
  • •Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development practices. Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt and overall solution performance.
  • •Provide expert advice and lead solution design reviews to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural standards and patterns.
  • •Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/driver role in Teams of Teams or Agile/ Release Trains. In addition, be accountable for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with peer architects and engineering teams

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Travel AllowanceHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Degree (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent IT related discipline
  • •Technical leadership in leading a group of technical architects and senior developers. Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
  • •Comprehensive understanding of one or more technologies such as Java, Cloud, React, open-source frameworks, low code platforms, observability, automation, mobile & frontend technologies, AI/ML, container management platforms, database, integration.
  • •Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile and industry standard software modelling techniques such as ArchiMate, C4 and UML
  • •Knowledge in architecture styles such as microservices, event driven architecture, cloud native applications and well architected framework for cloud and on-premises deployments.
Experience:Information TechnologyEnterprise Architecture
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:ReactJSNodeJSJavaMicroservicesOpen APIsCI/CDDevSecOpsCloudAWSAzureAutomationObservabilityFrontendBackendAPI integration
Certifications:AWS CertifiedAzure Certified
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactJSNodeJSJavaAWSAzureCI/CDDevSecOpsOpen APIsMicroservicesCloud

Company Brief

Emirates Group
The Emirates Group operates Emirates airline and related aviation services, providing passenger and cargo air transport, ground handling, and travel services worldwide with a large global network and integrated aviation operations.
Industry: Aviation
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Government Funded
Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 1985
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