Enterprise Architecture Manager

🏗️ We're Hiring: Enterprise Architecture Manager

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior-Level

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a technology-driven organization focused on building a scalable, secure, resilient, and business-aligned technology ecosystem .

Our Enterprise Architecture function connects business strategy, operating models, information, applications, technology, cybersecurity, data, integration, cloud, and digital capabilities to ensure technology investments support long-term organizational objectives.

The Role

We are seeking an Enterprise Architecture Manager to lead enterprise architecture activities and help define the organization's target architecture, technology strategy, architecture standards, transformation roadmap, governance framework, and technology investment priorities .

The successful candidate will work closely with executive leadership, Business, Product, IT, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and external technology partners to ensure technology decisions are strategically aligned, economically sustainable, secure, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Enterprise Architecture function.
• Define and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture strategy.
• Translate business strategy into technology architecture and transformation priorities.
• Develop the enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Establish current-state, transitional-state, and target-state architectures.
• Maintain an enterprise architecture vision aligned with organizational objectives.
• Develop architecture principles and standards.
• Establish architecture governance.
• Define decision-making frameworks for technology investments.
• Ensure architecture decisions support:
• Business strategy
• Customer experience
• Operational efficiency
• Scalability
• Security
• Resilience
• Data quality
• Cost optimization
• Regulatory compliance
• Lead enterprise architecture planning across:
• Business architecture
• Application architecture
• Data architecture
• Technology architecture
• Integration architecture
• Security architecture
• Cloud architecture
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture models.
• Document current technology capabilities.
• Identify technology gaps.
• Define target capabilities.
• Develop transformation roadmaps.
• Identify dependencies between initiatives.
• Support prioritization of technology investments.
• Conduct architecture assessments.
• Review proposed technology solutions.
• Ensure projects align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Participate in solution-architecture reviews.
• Review major technology proposals and designs.
• Identify architectural risks and constraints.
• Approve or recommend architecture decisions.
• Establish architecture review boards or governance forums.
• Define architecture approval processes.
• Maintain architecture decision records.
• Ensure significant technology decisions are documented and traceable.
• Develop enterprise technology standards.
• Define standards for:
• Applications
• Platforms
• Cloud
• Integration
• Data
• APIs
• Infrastructure
• Security
• Identity
• Networking
• Observability
• Development
• Establish technology reference architectures.
• Maintain reusable architecture patterns.
• Promote standardization and reuse.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technology complexity.
• Lead technology rationalization.
• Assess the organization's application portfolio.
• Identify:
• Duplicate applications
• Legacy applications
• Redundant platforms
• Unsupported technologies
• Underutilized systems
• High-cost solutions
• Develop application modernization and rationalization strategies.
• Recommend applications for:
• Retention
• Modernization
• Replacement
• Consolidation
• Retirement
• Manage technical-debt reduction.
• Establish technology-lifecycle management.
• Monitor technology obsolescence.
• Identify systems approaching end-of-support.
• Develop replacement and modernization roadmaps.
• Assess emerging technologies.
• Monitor developments in:
• Artificial intelligence
• Cloud computing
• Automation
• Data platforms
• Cybersecurity
• Edge computing
• Internet of Things
• Digital platforms
• Integration technologies
• Evaluate business relevance and technical maturity.
• Recommend appropriate technology adoption.
• Lead cloud architecture strategy.
• Define cloud adoption principles.
• Develop cloud migration and modernization roadmaps.
• Assess public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud options where appropriate.
• Establish cloud architecture standards.
• Work with Cloud and Infrastructure teams to ensure scalable and resilient designs.
• Monitor cloud cost, performance, security, and governance.
• Support cloud optimization initiatives.
• Lead application architecture governance.
• Ensure applications follow enterprise architecture standards.
• Review application portfolios.
• Identify architectural dependencies.
• Ensure applications are scalable, maintainable, secure, and interoperable.
• Establish application integration principles.
• Coordinate with Integration teams.
• Lead enterprise integration architecture.
• Define integration patterns and standards.
• Ensure systems can exchange information reliably.
• Promote API-first and event-driven architectures where appropriate.
• Establish integration governance.
• Coordinate with Data Architecture and Data Engineering teams.
• Define enterprise data architecture principles.
• Support:
• Data governance
• Master data management
• Data integration
• Data quality
• Data platforms
• Analytics
• Business intelligence
• Ensure data architecture supports business and regulatory requirements.
• Establish data ownership and architecture principles in coordination with relevant governance teams.
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity.
• Ensure security architecture is incorporated into enterprise designs.
• Support:
• Identity and access management
• Zero-trust principles
• Network security
• Application security
• Data protection
• Cloud security
• Encryption
• Ensure security requirements are considered from the beginning of architecture design.
• Identify architectural security risks.
• Coordinate remediation.
• Support resilience and business-continuity architecture.
• Define principles for:
• High availability
• Disaster recovery
• Fault tolerance
• Backup
• Recovery
• Business continuity
• Ensure critical systems meet resilience requirements.
• Participate in disaster-recovery architecture reviews.
• Assess technology risks.
• Identify:
• Architecture risks
• Technology concentration risks
• Vendor dependency
• Legacy risks
• Security risks
• Scalability risks
• Integration risks
• Data risks
• Availability risks

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Performance will be measured through a combination of strategic, architectural, technology, financial, governance, and transformation metrics, including:

• Enterprise architecture roadmap completion
• Architecture-review completion rate
• Architecture compliance rate
• Architecture exception rate
• Technology-standard adoption
• Application rationalization rate
• Legacy-system reduction
• Technical-debt reduction
• Technology lifecycle compliance
• Technology modernization progress
• Cloud adoption progress
• Integration standardization
• API reuse
• Technology cost optimization
• Total cost of ownership improvement
• Technology investment alignment
• Architecture risk-closure rate
• Critical architecture-risk reduction
• Transformation milestone adherence
• Architecture decision turnaround time
• Solution-design approval cycle time
• Enterprise capability-gap closure
• Application portfolio health
• Technology resilience
• Business-continuity readiness
• Security-architecture compliance
• Data-architecture compliance
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Architecture-team capability development

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should have significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, IT architecture, digital transformation, cloud architecture, application architecture, or a closely related discipline .

This role is suited to a strategic technology leader who can connect business objectives with architecture, technology investment, operating models, and transformation programs .

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience in enterprise architecture or senior architecture roles.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Application architecture
• Data architecture
• Integration architecture
• Cloud architecture
• Infrastructure architecture
• Security architecture
• Experience with architecture governance and review processes.
• Strong understanding of application portfolios and technology landscapes.
• Experience with application rationalization and modernization.
• Experience developing target-state architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and hybrid architectures.
• Knowledge of API, integration, event-driven, and distributed architectures.
• Understanding of cybersecurity architecture principles.
• Understanding of data architecture and governance.
• Experience supporting large-scale digital-transformation programs.
• Strong technology-financial management skills.
• Experience with TCO and technology investment analysis.
• Strong vendor-evaluation and technical-due-diligence capabilities.
• Experience with architecture-management tools such as LeanIX, Bizzdesign, Orbus, Sparx Enterprise Architect, ArchiMate, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, or similar architecture frameworks is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of technology governance and risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technology concepts to executives and business leaders.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent presentation and documentation skills.
• Experience managing architecture teams is advantageous.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience with Power BI or other visualization tools is advantageous.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• Arabic language proficiency is advantageous.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Business Technology, or a related discipline .