Enterprise Architect

Michael Page

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP350-1783

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

The purpose of the role is to provide Solutions Architecture support the division in delivering its Growth Acceleration Plan (GAP) work streams and subsequent projects. The successful candidate, together with the Senior Management Team, will design and deliver a business, data, information and technology design (architecture) and plan (roadmap) which will enable the successful delivery of the projects aligned to the divisional business strategy and operating model.

- Focus on the delivery of various technical solutions into the GE business, these may include current systems which require realignment as well as new solutions to the business
- Define standards for describing, governing, managing, modelling, analysing, and delivering solution requirements across the enterprise, at a Divisional and cross Divisional/Group level
- Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of Enterprise Architecture across the division
- Work alongside Business Analyst, PMO and other technology & business leaders inside and outside of the group to produce technical specifications for development, testing and system integration
- Ensure best practice and third party solution alternatives as part of the functional design
- Participate in training design, documentation and delivery efforts to aide implementation management
- Create and own the process for ensuring that solution architecture aligns with architectural standards and that appropriate recommendations are proposed to allow the right decisions to be made
- Document and obtain stakeholder sign-off of architectures at conceptual (business-friendly), logical and physical (infrastructure) levels of detail and be able to architect across an number of views such as application, integration, data, security and infrastructure

Requirements

- 3+ years’ experience in solutions architecture design and planning
- Good understanding of architectural frameworks including TOGAF and Zachman required (Certification preferred)
- Excellent budget, planning and allocation skills required
- Experience in data modeling and database design, from conceptualization to database optimization
- Experience with large scale, global IT projects
- Strong project and change management experience
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, technical and business friendly
- Ability to deliver to deadlines
- Ability to influence, engage and motivate teams and external vendors
- Ability to manage own workload
- Strong analytical and reporting skills with the ability to evaluate and summarize information provided
- Confident, proactive, flexible, self-motivated team player
- Strong IT skills including relevant planning software

Desirable
- Experience of delivering architecture solutions for large Customer Data Warehouses
- Experience of delivering architecture solutions for Enterprise Content Management Systems
- Experience in delivering architecture solutions for global, multi divisional and multi-language business users

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.

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