Senior Technical Architect

The Senior Architect has a direct reporting line to the Head of Architecture but is also accountable dotted reporting line to the Delivery Head Lead aka Matrix Manager in the business functional domain that is being served The Senior Architect is expected to possess deep technical expertise potential leadership qualities be solution oriented with a core focus on contributing to build products that balance Functional Requirements Customer User Experience Performance Reliability Resiliency Security This specific role will serve the Technology Platforms domain that is responsible for implementing and maintaining Tier Zero infrastructure e g Networks Compute Data Integration Workplace Digitization It requires doing both - Technical Solutions Security keeping Cost Optimization in mind 1 Domain Competencies 1 Functional Domain - Strong experience in Must have participated and or led at least 3 projects designing and architecting resilient reliable secure infrastructure 2 Develop and maintain architecture standards guidelines and best practices 3 Experience working with Agile Methodologies and in Agile teams that incorporate - Agile Team concepts such as Tribes Squads - Agile Ceremonies such as Quarterly Planning Sprint Planning Sprint Refinement Sprint Retrospective - Agile Deliverables such as Features Epics Stories Acceptance Criteria 4 Ensuring that all designs are created according to internal client development best practices and architectural patterns used by the client that cover Resiliency Reliability Security RRS 2 Technical Competencies 1 5 years experience knowledge of building endend designs high level low level solutions of infrastructure technologies including but not limited to Kubevirt on OpenShift general virtualization container Kubernetes on OpenShift technologies Infrastructure Provisioning technologies like Terraform Ansible Linux based Operating Systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL Oracle Linux Virtual Manager OLVM Windows based technologies such as Windows Server Active Directory 2 3 years of work experience in Cyber Information Security and knowledge of how to bake security controls into designs specifically virtualization technologies like Kubevirt 3 3 years Experience working with at least one cloud platform such as Azure AWS or OCI 4 Deep knowledge and experience in proposing architectural design principles patterns and justifying the benefits and drawbacks of each 5 Strong knowledge of cryptographic concepts and key management practices including encryption standards key lifecycle management and secret management solutions 6 Adequate knowledge experience of baking cyber and information security controls into products via methods such as Data Classification Regulatory Requirements considerations e g PCI-DSS UAE Central Bank GDPR Threat Modelling Security Requirements Govern Identify Protect Detect Respond Recover 7 Adequate knowledge of and experience in implementing cyber security controls such as Authentication Authorization Encryption Algorithms Keys Data Security Security Events Logging Alerting 8 Hands-on experience with Identity and Access Management IAM solutions demonstrating the ability to design and integrate secure identity frameworks across enterprise systems 9 Intermediate understanding of networking concepts including network segmentation VLANs routing and zero-trust network design to ensure secure and efficient system architecture 10 Some knowledge and experience of attacking and defending systems from a cyber security perspective 11 Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence concepts technologies including but not limited to Machine Learning Generative AI Large Language Models Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG Embedding Models Vector Databases Model Context Protocol MCP AI Agents Agentic AI Git Hub Co-Pilot Claude Code or similar Requirements 3 Behavioural Competencies Thinking related People related Self related 1 Delivery focused while ensuring the right balance of Customer Experience Business Requirements Performance Reliability Security Operational Overhead Cost 2 High energy enthusiasm passion 3 Excellent analytical critical thinking skills 4 Excellent stakeholder time management expectation management skills 5 Autonomous decision-making ability with minimal guidance 6 Very high learning potential 7 Ability to coach mentor associate junior 1-6 Essential 7 Preferred architects 4 Core Objectives Key Results OKRs Business Delivery Enablement Chapter Enablement Personal Development Business Delivery Enablement Dimension How Am I Helping My Team Tribe 1 Deliver complete and self-sufficient solutions and or design documents within agreed timelines 2 Improve efficiency of the architecture design workflow or via automation 3 Contribute to building Reliable Resilient Secure Platforms Chapter Enablement Dimension How Am I Helping My Chapter 4 Deliver education workshops to Chapter Tribe members 5 Conduct Peer Review Sessions 6 New solutions follow or define re-usable blueprints reference architecture Personal Development Dimension How Am I Helping Myself 7 Invest time in improving personnel and professional skills for self via completion of technical soft skill programs stretch assignments coaching mentoring 8 Upskill self to ensure eventual sufficient depth of architecture concepts including both Technical Security Architecture