Ref: KP709-2015

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A Leading bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is looking for an experience Applications Architect.

The Applications Architect provides designs, specifies information systems solutions and highly technical direction in the Development of new or existing applications to solve basic to complex problems or enhancements. Acts as a principal application architect for major modifications effectively using analytical skills and technical skills

Available technology and tools in the evaluation of client requirements and processes. Provides solutions that are technologically sound. May perform day to day support activities and special projects. Often directs and monitors the activities of junior staff.

Responsibilities:
- Participates in the development and maintenance of application and information system architecture and conducts business information flow studies. Provides integrated systems architecture and recommends new or different technologies that will not only meet project requirements, but also enhance current systems and support overall corporate and business goals. Provides in-depth technical consultation to clients and IT management to ensure development of efficient application systems utilizing established standards, procedures and methodologies. Provides resolutions to an extensive range of complicated problems. Solutions are innovative, thorough, and practicable. Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions. Interacts with senior customer personnel on significant technical matters frequently requiring coordination across organizational lines.
- Participates in the development and maintenance of application system architecture and conducts business information flow studies.
- Creates the architecture document for assigned projects, including architecture patterns, decisions, and rationale for those decisions
- Conducts system architecture studies of new and existing IT systems to permit development of integrated systems.
- Identifies and compares alternative solutions to determine the optimal solution that will meet business needs.
- Defines future architecture enhancements, i.e. logical evolutions of the system
- Presents and communicates the solution architecture to various stakeholders, both technical and business, and be able to explain how the solution design will meet business needs
- Ensures alignment of solution architecture to business objectives, roadmaps and strategic solutions, as well as to architecture principles and standards
- Assists in creating and defining application and technical patterns to be used for business events, as necessary
- Acts as counselor to business counterparts, customers, and top management on requirements pertinent to the technical capability
- Evaluates system scalability and recommends improvements
- Provides in-depth technical consultation to clients and IT management to ensure development of efficient application systems utilizing established standards, procedures and methodologies. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
- Works on unusually complicated problems and provides solutions that are highly creative and ingenious.
- Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range targets. Determines and pursues courses of action essential in obtaining desired outcomes

Provides leadership and guidance in the following:
- Advises external vendors, business owners, and IT groups regarding architecture guidelines
- Drives application architectural decisions for the systems under development
- Leads the applications integration and design discussions among multiple applications groups
- Influences key decisions for the technical and infrastructure architecture.
- Advises on the system and infrastructure configuration from application performance, scalability, and capacity perspective.
- Provides guidance to business counterparts, customers, and top management on requirements pertinent to the technical capability
- Ability to lead/influence issue resolution across various groups in the organization
- Ability to convert business requirements into logical solution designs

Salary is between 120k - 140k USD annually & bonus.

Requirements

- Bachelors degree in information technology or related filed is required
- Masters Degree preferred
- At least 12 years of experience in Information Technology
- Minimum five (5) years of hands-on experience in solution, application, or information architecture
- Experience in web-based systems architecture, service-oriented architecture, enterprise application
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Ability to think on a multi-site enterprise level. Be forward looking and drive tactical and strategic technology roadmaps.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
- Be self-motivated and customer service oriented

Must have the following:
- Hands-on experience with MQ Series and IBM Mainframe (Z series)
- Advance degrees and Architecture related certifications such as TOGAF qualification
- Prior experience in banking and/or FSI

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