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Ref: NP598-26
Job description / Role
Purpose:
- Develop and establish an IT business solution design unit for a specific competency which has been identified as being a common theme, with a high degree of complexity across different business units, in order to leverage synergies. Identify and design leading edge, innovative IT business solutions, across multiple business units. Envisage and develop 3-5 year roadmaps for the specific cross-business IT competency which support both business and IT strategies.
- Develop a framework of research and analysis to introduce and evaluate new industry concepts and supporting technology to provide quantifiable business performance improvements and solutions.
Job Outline:
- Develop and establish a cross-business IT competency. Identify common skills; methodologies; objectives; technologies and best practice within the competency in order to fully leverage the opportunities of synergies to design leading edge business IT solutions. Develop and drive a 3-5 year roadmap for the competency which supports the development of Business IT strategy for specific business units as well as the overall Emirates Group strategy.
- Develop and maintain expert knowledge of the competency; encompassing Emirates Group and industry practices; technology trends and innovation. Ensure channels for research and learning are established and innovation is applied to design methodologies.
- Constantly and pro-actively seek opportunities to apply IT to improve business performance. E.g. on how to improve hub efficiency or to enhance customer experience. Ensure integration of business analysts into the business and manage senior business stakeholders across the competency in order to maximise the working relationships and deliver cross business synergies.
- Support the overall business IT work programme by designing solutions including determining cost; feasibility and research required for business transformation. Ensure that discipline of design is maintained in the solution delivered. Ensure business improvements are quantifiable and measure IT's contribution to performance improvements.
- Monitor changes in the IT domain and in the business environment. Liaise with relevant IT departments to ensure that changes in the business landscape are reflected in the overall business architecture; technology and applications. Contribute to the application life cycle management by ensuring that the functional capability of relevant systems is enhanced in line with the business.
- Ensure analysis done by business analysts captures and documents business objectives and functional requirements; and is translated into requirements and solution definition documents in a comprehensive; meaningful and well-structured manner. This includes ensuring that the proposed business solution will deliver the expected benefits. Ensure that the end product aligns with business strategy.
- Ensure that logical systems design (detailing business information flow/process) for a proposed solution is produced. This includes detailed business use cases; system use cases; entity relationship modelling; function hierarchy diagramming and process modelling; function to entity mapping and attributing the entities etc. as appropriate to the methodology being used.
- Establish career development plans; training for direct reports and provide appropriate mentoring and coaching. Conduct timely annual and interim performance reviews and set SMART objectives to cultivate a culture of high performance. Ensure that the team develops requisite level of business domain and technical knowledge to effectively manage relations with Emirates Group business units.
Requirements
- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
- Information Technology.Other : 10+ Years
- Relevant management and leadership experience in Airport and Flight & Network Operations.
- Experience in airport operations, ground handling, load control, baggage service, staff/crew planning, flight and network operations including disruption management (aircraft, crew and passengers), day of ops control in network operation is essential.
- Experience within a business IT environment is preferred.
We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE. Besides generous travel benefits normally associated with an airline, this managerial role also has excellent leave, health care packages, accommodation and more.
The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with revenue of AED 87.8 billion and over 75,000 employees. The Group comprises of dnata, one of the largest air services provider globally and Emirates airline, the Group’s rapidly expanding and award-winning international carrier. Within the Group there are a diverse range of businesses which offer a wide spectrum of career opportunities, all of which can be explored through the Group's dedicated careers website, emirates.com/careers.
Emirates flies one of the youngest, most innovative fleet in the sky to over 140 destinations across six continents and dnata's network now extends across 90 cities worldwide. With our international network constantly expanding and opportunities arising in countries/cities outside of Dubai, we are looking for career motivated individuals to join our operations in their home countries as well as in Dubai.
Please submit your application before 31-Dec-15, 23:59 GMT + 4 hours
About the Company
A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.