IT APPLICATION ARCHITECT REQUIRED IN DUBAI - Dubai
IT APPLICATION ARCHITECT REQUIRED IN DUBAI
POSITIONS: IT Positions with the following descriptions:
1. IT Business Relationship Manager
2. IT Portfolio Manager
3. IT Governance
4. IT Infrastructure and Security Architect
5. IT Application Architect
6. IT Reporting and BI Analyst
* IT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
• Ability to discern business pain points and strategic opportunities that can be addressed by information systems and services
• Solid understanding of IT application development, operations, and other services
• Proven experience in managing and demonstrated ability to ensure effective prioritization of multiple competing initiatives
• Highly proficient English and Arabic oral and written communication abilities, including the ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a senior audience
• Strong relationship building skills and communication skills
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with people at all levels of an organization
• Proven negotiation skills to drive effective management of stakeholder expectations
• Business facing skills (listening, ability to playback and validate concepts, developing proposals, conceptual/ strategic selling)
• IT experience spanning business relationship management, project planning and execution, deployment and IT portfolio management
• Track record of good business relationships and business value delivery; operating successfully in a matrixed IT environment; and leveraging supplier resources in an outsourced IT model
• Business process analysis expertise and a good understanding of how IT enables business
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with specializations in IT / IS, or equivalent
• Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP) or Certified Business Relationship Manager (CBRM) certification preferred
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Fluent Arabic-English speaking/writing/listening
* IT PORTFOLIO MANAGER
• Define the overall IT portfolio management strategy and classification criteria
• Accountable for the definition, implementation and consistent adoption of Portfolio and Program Management methodology across IT
• Manage, plan, evaluate, prioritize and monitor complex or high value IT investment portfolios and projects
• Partner with the business sectors to evaluate business cases, objectives, prioritize projects and participate in sourcing process (RFIs, RFQs and RFPs – issuance and evaluation)
• Gain understanding of business strategies, competitor technology and stays abreast of industry trends in the business and technology
• Monitor program / project schedule, timelines, milestones, and delivery team performance
• Work with assigned business units to develop initial business case/needs analysis outlines, initial project estimates for cost-benefit analysis and functional specifications
• Monitor overall solution / implementation delivery for projects aligned to their business area and oversees the IT strategic planning process
• Ensure all business changes are adequately governed through effective impact assessment and supported by informed decisions through designated forums
• Ensure that stakeholders are fully informed of portfolio delivery status through periodic/holistic reporting of program/project status and participate in appropriate governance forums
• Influence and lead decision making through liaison with diverse set of stakeholders
• Highly developed and proven project & portfolio management skills; possess a natural ability and drive to focus on project delivery, maintaining outstanding project execution and compliance in a fast-changing environment.
• Experience within the IT industry, with hands on experience in information system design and development
• Extensive knowledge of IT planning and operations, design, and deployment, as well as system life cycle management
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project and/or SharePoint.
• Proven leadership skills to lead teams and shape/lead growth vision. Strong Coaching skillset, a change agent with energy, passion & enthusiasm to drive change.
• Ability to collaborate across organization and with a senior-level management team.
• Analytical skills to allow ‘getting into the detail’ whilst retaining ‘big picture’ focus.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and complete multiple projects efficiently in accordance with time, budget and quality requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to hold internal stakeholders and external partners accountable for meeting project schedules, budget and quality metrics.
• Excellent business presentation skills; Ability to prepare clear and concise project plans and documents, reports of work performed and other written materials.
• Ability to negotiate expectations, facilitate open communications and mediate disputes among stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in IT / IS disciplines
• Industry certifications in Program / Portfolio Management (PgMP, PfMP, or equivalent)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing portfolio and program management
• Fluent Arabic-English speaking/writing/listening
* IT GOVERNANCE
• Liaise with HR, Finance and Procurement departments to ensure that he needs and requirements of IT departments are addressed through proper channels and defined processes
• Support in monitoring vendor performance and developing periodic performance reporting for senior management based on inputs from delivery managers
• Coordinate with delivery teams to develop operational reporting (projects and operations metrics) for designated governance forums
• Ensure that the governance forums are appropriately convened and managed, participate actively during governance forums and follow-up on remediation actions of findings
• Support the measurement, monitoring and periodic reporting of the effectiveness of IT processes and controls in alignment with industry standards and leading practices.
• Assist with internal communication as needed to ensure stakeholders are informed of progress.
• Experience in software product development, SDLC, Agile methodologies and practices
• Knowledge of IT planning and operations, design, and deployment, as well as system life cycle management
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project and/or SharePoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organization as well as external vendors
• Great facilitation, negotiation and influence skills
• Excellent problem-solving mentality
• Consistently demonstrates positive energy and strong work ethic by getting things done
• Understanding of governance framework (roles and responsibilities, escalation and communication process, handoffs and control points)
• Capacity to manage conflict with partners and cross-functional groups within the Business and IT
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or Equivalent
• Minimum of 2-3 years of IT Governance, Business Analysis or Project Management experience
• Fluent Arabic-English speaking/writing/listening
* IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND SECURITY ARCHITECT
Develop and monitor principles related to infrastructure and security measures that ensure alignment with the overall enterprise architecture and strategy
• Contribute to overall infrastructure and security architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
• Perform architecture assessments of existing infrastructure to identify any gaps that may exist and to remediate any known performance or configuration issues
• Responsible for the design, integration, and accountable for the deployment of security architecture to ensure information assets, business capabilities, applications and platforms are secure and sufficiently protected
• Embed and promote IT security and risk policies, standards and procedures in alignment with business and IT objectives and ensure IT is compliant to the defined policies and standards
• Support technical solutions and design choices with detailed business case based on thorough interpretation of business requirements
• Collaborate with technical architects on infrastructure non-functional requirements, design, performance, and modernization in alignment with the overall enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy
• Define the overall infrastructure architecture including the introduction of new technologies and modernization opportunities
• Contributes to the systems planning process for new business initiatives including evaluating solution architecture against company standards, and assessing technical risk
• Evaluate platforms, tools, and emerging technologies that are candidates for the future state architecture and evolving business strategy. Conduct vendor analysis and proof-of-concepts for new technologies and solutions as needed
• Provide guidance and direction to project and operations teams on network and technology architecture
• Demonstrated understanding of technology and architecture standards, processes and practices
• Experience in creating and maintaining enterprise architecture components, specifically infrastructure and security architecture
• Solid understanding of leading technology frameworks and industry leading practices
• Hands on experience in enterprise architecture tools
• Demonstrated ability in reviewing solutions for complex technological problems
• Highly developed English and Arabic oral and written communication abilities, including the ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a senior audience
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point and MS Visio (as applicable)
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff; ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff
• Advanced knowledge of IT systems, practices and development life cycles.
• Applies a systematic problem-solving approach to gather needed information, evaluate alternatives, develop contingencies, and prioritize actions to recognize, analyze and solve complex problems.
• Strong collaboration skills in order to partner effectively across various levels of the organization.
• Ability to lead and facilitate design sessions with solution architects, developers, business analysts, and users
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at levels of the organization.
• Ability to effectively handle pressures and demands of deadlines and competing priorities.
• Ability to interact with internal business partners at a senior management level to clarify requirements and business needs for changes and enhancements
• Team player, leader, as well as an individual contributor
• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or equivalent
• Professional certifications related to Enterprise Architecture (SOA, TOGAF, or equivalent)
• Professional certifications related to Information Security (CISM, CISSP, or equivalent)
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
* IT APPLICATION ARCHITECT
• Contribute to overall business and application architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
• Create architectural designs that articulate the business context, conceptual design and component-level logical design and ensures the alignment of application and data architecture to Enterprise Architecture standards, principles, frameworks and processes
• Build, optimize and maintain conceptual and logical data models in compliance with Government directives, standards and specifications
• Support end-to-end solution architecture and provides guidance and direction to project and operations teams on data and application architecture
• Partner effectively with business and IT leaders to ensure alignment with enterprise strategies and architecture models
• Facilitate the collaboration of all relevant architecture teams, development teams and solution engineering to create conceptual, logical and physical architecture
• Collaborate with internal IT stakeholders to modify architecture resulting from scope changes, discovery of previously unknown issues encountered during detailed design and implementation cycles
• Maintain and suggest application and data architecture standards and stays abreast of industry direction, changes and improvements
• Contribute to strategy analysis and provides recommendations to close the gap between current and future state technology
• Evaluate and select from existing and emerging technologies the options that best fit business and IT strategic needs; able to present analysis and recommendations to senior leadership on emerging technologies
• Demonstrated understanding of technology and architecture standards, processes and practices
• Experience in creating and maintaining enterprise architecture components, specifically application architecture and data architecture
• Proficient in Logical and Physical Data modeling, Data Warehousing concepts and implementation knowledge
• Solid understanding of leading technology frameworks and industry leading practices
• Hands on experience in enterprise architecture tools
• Demonstrated ability in reviewing solutions for complex technological problems
• Highly developed English and Arabic oral and written communication abilities, including the ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a senior audience
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point and MS Visio (as applicable)
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff; ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff
• Advanced knowledge of IT systems, practices and development life cycles.
• Strong analytical skills and experience; ability to recognize, analyze and solve complex problems.
• Strong collaboration skills in order to partner effectively across various levels of the organization.
• Ability to lead and facilitate design sessions with solution architects, developers, business analysts, and users
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at levels of the organization.
• Ability to effectively handle pressures and demands of deadlines and competing priorities.
• Ability to interact with internal business partners at a senior management level to clarify requirements and business needs for changes and enhancements
• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or Equivalent
• Professional certifications related to Enterprise Architecture (SOA, TOGAF, or equivalent)
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
* IT REPORTING AND BI ANALYST
• Liaise with data owners and stewards from business teams and applications team (as required) to ensure data quality issues are addressed
• Participate in workshops to elicit, gather and document reporting requirements of business teams
• Liaise with design specialists within IT to validate solution designs for reports / BI systems before implementation
• Fulfill reporting requirements and approved ad-hoc data requests from business teams through effective prioritization of delivery activities
• Keep informed about best practices, improvements and new tools affecting reporting. Recommend changes and/or technology that could improve our reporting services.
• Enable data architecture and develop solutions that best meet the analytics and reporting needs of the business
• Work cross functionally in order to proactively and systematically identify and implement any enhancements to reporting and analytics processes
• Facilitate on-going support and end-user training for corporate and store staff with regards to reporting, data analysis and data access needs
• Periodically monitor the implemented reporting solutions to ensure on-going quality and accuracy of existing reports and dashboards
• Demonstrated ability working with data warehouses and data marts designed to support actionable customer insights
• Proven ability to scope technical reporting requirements for delivering measurement/analytics plans and products
• Hands on experience in developing analytics reporting / business intelligence based on leading industry solutions
• Programming experience on Microsoft technologies (such as .NET, C#, SQL Server, MSSQL, MS Access), R, SAS, Microstrategy, or equivalent is desirable
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point and MS Visio (as applicable)
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities with demonstrated experience communicating directly with Senior Executives
• Highly developed oral and written communication abilities, including the ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a senior audience
• Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions
• SDLC knowledge and other software development methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage competing priorities & deliverables in a fast-paced, dead-line oriented environment
• Superior organizational, problem solving, and analysis skills
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and manage multiple priorities
• Able to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships
• Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, computer engineering, finance, mathematics, accounting or related field
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
• Fluent Arabic-English speaking/writing/listening
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