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Emirates Development Bank

A financial institution in Dubai is looking for a Director of IT Architecture to lead the design and maintenance of enterprise IT architecture. Responsibilities include aligning IT strategies with business goals, ensuring risk visibility, and managing complex technology landscapes. Candidates should have extensive experience in IT architecture and proven leadership skills. This is a full-time position, offering competitive remuneration.

Director of Enterprise IT Architecture & Optimization

Emirates Development Bank (EDB)

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   Job Purpose:
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  Design and maintain the Bank&rsquo;s enterprise IT architecture, identifying pain points and transition states across systems and applications, and providing vision, risk-aware guidance, and problem solving to IT. Contribute to strategies and policies that align technology architecture with organizational goals, in coordination with the Head of IT and domain leads.
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   Key Responsibilities:
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  Leadership Responsibilities:
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   Lead the strategic, operational, and technical decision processes to keep IT services aligned to priorities and risk appetite; ensure risk visibility, escalation, and management.
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   Serve as the single IT contact for enterprise IT policy governance; engage C-level leadership (with Head of IT) to promote effective technology adoption.
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   Partner with Director - Applications and Manager - Infrastructure to support the Head of IT in transforming the function.
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  Strategic Responsibilities:
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   Deliver a holistic IT architecture that enables and is enabled by business and IT strategies.
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   Maintain an open architectural framework across domains (network, infrastructure, applications/solutions, data, security) for near- and long-term horizons.
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   Assess domain needs on projects/systems; recommend solutions aligned to architectural principles for unified, cost-efficient, low-complexity, stable platforms.
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   Develop implementation plans for architecture based on strategy and business requirements; recommend process changes to improve architectural practice.
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   Work with applications, solutions, network, and security teams to enable common services, business rules, and information storage/flow.
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   Lead domain design of stable, extensible architectures (e.g., server topology, placement, client systems) with cross-business teams; influence project decisions to align with standards.
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   Map architectural solutions to business objectives; enforce infrastructure-architecture governance and refinements; identify necessary modifications to meet project needs while avoiding unnecessary cost/complexity.
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   Contribute to enterprise architecture governance based on business/IT strategies; promote architecture processes and outcomes to stakeholders.
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   Plan for scalability/availability based on validated business growth and availability needs.
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  Operational Responsibilities:
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   Manage key projects that establish a new operating model aligned to the redesigned business model; close audit points that expose the Bank to risk.
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   Oversee the complex &ldquo;run the Bank&rdquo; and &ldquo;grow the Bank&rdquo; technology landscape (with direct reports) and collaborate with Director&ndash;Applications and Manager&ndash;Infrastructure to achieve IT KPIs.
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   Monitor KPIs/KRIs; escalate trigger/limit breaches; conduct gap analyses on new guidance and lead adoption.
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   Work with support/control functions to apply consistent risk-governance approaches; maintain strong relationships with Risk Management.
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   Ensure architecture design and evaluation are documented; maintain a tactical implementation plan for the domain.
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   Execute communication and education plans for architecture; develop partnerships with IT partners, operations, and vendors; act as a sounding board/consultant to team leaders.
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   Mentor programmers and software specialists to ensure designs adhere to architectural principles.
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Director, IT Architecture & Optimization

<div><div><b><i>About Emirates Global Aluminium</i></b><i>
</i></div><div>Emirates Global Aluminium is the world&rsquo;s biggest &lsquo;premium aluminium&rsquo; producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry. EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.</div>
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JOB PURPOSE:</div>
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To lead and oversee the strategic development and implementation of the organization's enterprise architecture, to shape and align the technology landscape with business goals, and to ascertain scalability, flexibility, and security. To drive the creation of a cohesive and integrated architecture that optimizes technology investments, fosters innovation, and enhances overall organizational efficiency.</div><br>
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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:</div>
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<li>Spearhead the creation or evolution of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function, facilitating a balanced pursuit of enterprise information systems, data, technical, and solution architecture viewpoints.</li>
<li>Lead, design, and own the target state enterprise architecture (Level-0 to Level 4 of Purdue model), the enterprise roadmap, and governance processes required to meet future needs involving data architects, solution architects, security architects, infrastructure architects, and business architects.</li>
<li>Formulate perspectives on emerging technologies, assess their relevance to business goals and operational requirements, and advocate for a comprehensive understanding of industry trends.</li>
<li>Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers, deriving architecture requirements and analyzing industry trends for potential impacts on the enterprise.</li>
<li>Analyze the current business and IT environment, detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.</li>
<li>Make informed decisions regarding the development of Enterprise Architecture strategy and principles, considering overall IT strategy decisions and incorporating new technologies.</li>
<li>Establish guiding principles, standards, and architecture strategy across infrastructure, data, security, application, and solution domains, influencing the development of the system landscape.</li>
<li>Prepare strategic trade-off decisions for senior management, securing organizational commitment for enterprise-level architecture initiatives. Drive the planning, development, and administration of proof-of-concept and special projects aligned with strategic initiatives.</li>
<li>Develop models for compliance architecture, monitor and measure architecture performance against global benchmarks, and ensure compliance in critical areas such as data storage, metadata management, regulatory compliance, and change control.</li>
<li>Formulate and maintain policies, processes, metrics, and governance structures, ensuring that solutions exhibit resilience, scalability, cost-efficiency, and effectiveness.</li>
<li>Establish and lead the architecture review board, enabling the alignment of all solution deployments and proactively resolving potential architectural conflicts.</li>
<li>Act as a representative of Enterprise Architecture in executive and strategic business meetings, committees, external relations, and audits.</li>
<li>Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of the department&rsquo;s systems, processes, and practices considering international best practices, improvement of business processes and cost optimization.</li>
<li>Research relevant regional and global market trends to stay up to date with best practices and drive relevant initiatives for improvements.</li>
<li>Enable compliance with all policies and procedures, as well as to controls related to quality, health, safety, environmental management, guaranteeing employee and assets safety and legislative compliance.</li></ul><br>
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AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:</div>
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Key decisions having significant impact on the department are referred to the reporting manager for approval before implementation.</div>
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Job holder exercises financial authority as per the level established by the company board and stipulated in the authority matrix.</div><br>
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QUALIFICATIONS &amp; SKILLS:</div>
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Minimum Qualifications:</div>
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<li>Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree in Business, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Analysis, or a related field from a reputable university. (Master&rsquo;s Degree preferred)</li>
<li>Practitioner qualification in Zachman Framework, FEAF, DoDAF, TOGAF, or equivalent.</li></ul><br>
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Minimum Experience:</div>
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<li>7-10 years of experience in a similar role</li></ul><br>
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Job-Specific Skills (Generic / Technical):</div>
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<li>Excellent experience working in an Agile environment with a clear understanding of key roles and practices, with specific Enterprise Architect (or similar) experience preferred (7-10 years)</li>
<li>A thorough understanding of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Internet as a Service (IaaS), and various cloud-related concepts/models</li>
<li>A keen awareness of regional laws and regulations pertaining to data privacy, data locality, data retention, data protection, and compliance, particularly in the context of a global company</li>
<li>Ability to integrate architectural processes with Agile practices</li>
<li>Advanced customer service orientation</li>
<li>Ability to work in a team environment and sometimes independently with minimal supervision as the task may be from time to time</li>
<li>Strong conflict management, facilitation, and resolution skills</li>
<li>Excellent use of the English (must) and Arabic language (preferred)</li>
<li>Excellent relationship building skills</li>
<li>Extensive skill handling personnel from a multi-cultural work environment</li>
<li>Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills</li>
<li>Ability to scan the external environment and to understand the impact on the business</li>
<li>Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills</li>
<li>Good understanding of KSA and EGA culture and working environment.</li></ul></div>

Head of Enterprise Architecture

Mashreq Corporate & Investment Banking Group

Define and drive the enterprise architecture vision aligned with business strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready technology solutions.Defining and driving the enterprise architecture vision aligned with business strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready technology solutions. Leading architecture governance, guiding major transformation initiatives, and fostering adoption of emerging technologies.Evaluating and recommending technology standards, overseeing solution design integrity, and enabling cross-functional alignment and mentoring architecture teams, drives innovation through POCs, and ensures architecture compliance across projects. Strategic collaboration with business and IT leaders to influence technology investment decisions and achieve long-term digital goals is essential for success in this role.Navigate complex, fast-paced environments while aligning evolving technologies with business needs. Should bring deep expertise in cloud, AI, and emerging tech integration, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and industry frameworks like TOGAF. Operating at a global scale, they should align architecture strategies with diverse business and regulatory landscapes, enforce governance, mitigate risks, and drive resilience. Should collaborate across departments and with IT teams to design effective solutions, foster continuous improvement, manage vendor relationships, and communicate architectural initiatives clearly. Culturally adept, should be able to thrive in multidisciplinary, global teams, ensuring architecture supports strategic and operational objectives.Seasoned technology leader with 16 20 years of experience in solution design, enterprise architecture governance, and modern cloud technologies. Proven expertise in architecting and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient solutions using Azure Cloud functions and services. Adept at aligning technology strategies with business objectives, driving innovation, and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture frameworks and governance standards. Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing complex initiatives, and fostering collaboration across business and IT units to deliver value-driven outcomes.The leading financial institution in MENAWhile more than half a century old, we proudly think like a challenger, startup, and innovatorin banking and finance, powered by a diverse and dynamic team who put customers first.Together, we pioneer key innovations and developments in banking and financial services.Our mandate? To help customers find their way to Rise Every Day, partnering with them throughthe highs and lows to help them reach their goals and unlock their unique vision of success.Delivering superior service to clients by leading with innovation, treating colleagues with dignity and fairness while pursuing opportunities that grow shareholders value.We actively contribute to the community through responsible banking in our mission to inspire more people to Rise.

Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

Majid Al Futtaim

<p> <b>ROLE SUMMARY</b> <br>The Director of Technology Transformation and Architecture at Group Technology leads the development of the group's transformation roadmap and manages the Enterprise Architecture landscape. They drive tech solutions, lead a team of architects and strategists, and pioneer GEN-AI solutions.<br> <br> <b>ROLE PROFILE</b> </p> <ul> <li>Enterprise and Solution Architecture: Establish the Enterprise and Business architecture practice, improve alignment and agility, and manage the Enterprise Architecture activities for efficient business and IT operations.</li> <li>Innovation: Stay aware of I&amp;T trends, identify innovation opportunities, and promote the business value of EA as a strategy enabler and technology innovation driver.</li> <li>Communication: Possess outstanding communication skills, with the ability to negotiate with and influence at senior leadership levels.</li> <li>Management Skills: Exhibit excellent management skills, with the ability to handle diverse components of multiple practices, teams, and programs concurrently.</li> <li>Organizational Savvy: Display organizational and political savvy, with the ability to navigate the personalities, obstacles, and politics of the organization.</li> <li>Technology Understanding: Have a deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they can be employed to drive digital business.</li> </ul> <p> <br> <b>REQUIREMENTS</b> </p> <ul> <li>Deep knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.</li> <li>Deep understanding of information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.</li> </ul>

Director Technology Transformation & Architecture

VaporVM

<div><div><div><b>Date Posted:</b></div>
31 October, 2025</div>
<div><div><b>Industry:</b></div>
IT Services and IT Consulting</div>
<div><div><b>Location:</b></div>
VAPORVM IT SERVICES DMCC</div></div>
<br><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Job Description:</b></h2>
<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Position Overview</b></h2>
<p>
We are seeking an experienced Migration Architect to lead<br>
the strategy, design, and execution of large-scale data center and workload<br>
migrations. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in VMware<br>
virtualization platforms, particularly vSphere, NSX-T and VMware Cloud Director<br>
(VCD), and will be responsible for transitioning complex enterprise workloads<br>
to modern private cloud environments.</p>
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Key Responsibilities</b></h2>
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Lead workload assessment and<br>
discovery initiatives to analyze existing environments, identifying application<br>
dependencies and migration readiness.
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Develop comprehensive migration<br>
strategies, roadmaps, and execution plans for complex workload transitions to<br>
private cloud environments.
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Design and architect migration<br>
solutions, selecting appropriate methodologies and tooling to meet business<br>
objectives.
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Create detailed High-Level<br>
Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation for migration patterns,<br>
target zone infrastructure, and network connectivity.
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Orchestrate and oversee the<br>
execution of migration waves, providing technical leadership and<br>
troubleshooting complex issues during cutover events.
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Establish and maintain<br>
migration standards, best practices, and repeatable governance frameworks.
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Collaborate closely with<br>
application, security, networking, and operations teams to ensure a seamless<br>
and secure migration process with minimal business disruption.
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Design identity and access<br>
integration strategies for migrated workloads in the target environment.
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Required Qualifications</b></h2>
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10+ years of experience in IT<br>
infrastructure, with at least 5 years focused on large-scale data center design<br>
and workload migration projects.
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Deep expertise in the VMware<br>
virtualization stack, including <b>vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, and</b><br>
<b>VMware Cloud Director (VCD)</b>.
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Proven track record of<br>
successfully leading and executing complex migrations from diverse environments<br>
to Vmware based private clouds.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Strong understanding of data<br>
center infrastructure, including networking (TCP/IP, BGP, VPN), connectivity<br>
(MPLS, Ipsec), storage (SAN, NAS), and enterprise backup solutions.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Experience with compliance<br>
frameworks and designing solutions that meet security standards.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Strong documentation skills<br>
with experience creating architecture artifacts, migration runbooks, and<br>
technical specifications.
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Technical Skills</b></h2>
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<b>VMware Technologies:</b> vSphere/ESXi 6.x/7.x/8.x, VMware Cloud Director (VCD), vCenter<br>
Server, NSX-T, vSAN.
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<b>Migration Tools &amp;</b><br>
<b>Methodologies:</b> VCDA, VMware HCX, vSphere<br>
Replication, Zerto, Carbonite Migrate, Azure Migrate, and/or other enterprise<br>
migration tools.
<ul><li></li></ul>
<b>Networking:</b> Hybrid connectivity, data center networking, software-defined<br>
networking (SDN).
<ul><li></li></ul>
<b>Discovery &amp; Analysis:</b> Experience with discovery tools like vRealize Operations (Aria),<br>
vRNI or other discovery platforms.
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<b>Operating Systems:</b> Windows Server and Linux.
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Preferred Qualifications</b></h2>
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<b>VMware Certified</b><br>
<b>Professional (VCP)</b> or <b>VMware Certified Advanced</b><br>
<b>Professional (VCAP)</b> certification.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Experience with multi-cloud<br>
architectures.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Knowledge of containerization<br>
(Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Background in enterprise<br>
architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman).
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Soft Skills</b></h2>
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Excellent communication and<br>
presentation abilities.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Strong leadership and mentoring<br>
capabilities.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Problem-solving and analytical<br>
thinking.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Stakeholder management<br>
experience.
<ul><li></li></ul>
Ability to translate technical<br>
concepts for non-technical audiences.</div></div><p></p>

Cloud Migration architect

Trilogy

<p>Leveraging deep expertise in education products to inform strategic decision-making</p><p>Crafting technical specifications that prioritize simplicity, efficiency, and long-term sustainability</p><p>Utilizing generative AI technologies to automate engineering processes, aligning with a strategic vision of minimizing manual efforts</p>

Director of Product Architecture

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