ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & IT RATIONALIZATION LEAD

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior Enterprise Architecture & IT Rationalisation Lead for a confidential large UAE-based industrial group. Working closely with the SVP of Technology & AI the successful candidate will assess the existing technology landscape define the target-state architecture and identify opportunities to simplify consolidate and optimise the organisations IT estate.

The role requires a business-oriented architecture leader who can connect technology decisions to operational outcomes reduce unnecessary complexity and cost and establish a practical roadmap for a more integrated scalable secure and internally managed technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current enterprise architecture across business capabilities applications data infrastructure cloud integration and security.
• Define a pragmatic target-state enterprise architecture aligned with business strategy industrial operations and the technology transformation roadmap.
• Lead IT rationalisation initiatives covering application duplication legacy systems overlapping platforms technology obsolescence and unnecessary complexity.
• Develop application and technology portfolio maps capability models architecture principles standards and transition roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate systems simplify integrations optimise technology investments and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions platform choices integration patterns cloud adoption and technology lifecycle risks.
• Align enterprise architecture with Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing industrial IT/OT integration data and AI initiatives and cybersecurity requirements.
• Establish architecture governance design reviews technology standards exception processes and decision-making frameworks.
• Work with business leaders application owners infrastructure teams cybersecurity data teams and external vendors to ensure architectural alignment.
• Assess the technology implications of insourcing outsourcing vendor transitions and the development of internal technology capabilities.
• Build business cases and prioritised roadmaps that balance strategic value delivery feasibility risk cost and operational continuity.
• Present architecture options rationalisation opportunities risks and investment recommendations to senior technology and business leadership.

Required Experience and Skills

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture technology strategy IT transformation or enterprise IT rationalisation.
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex technology estates and develop actionable current-state and target-state architecture roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of application portfolio management system integration data architecture infrastructure cloud and cybersecurity alignment.
• Proven experience identifying technology duplication simplifying application landscapes consolidating platforms or optimising IT expenditure.
• Strong business case development total-cost-of-ownership analysis technology governance and executive communication skills.
• Ability to translate architectural principles into practical delivery decisions and measurable business outcomes.
• Experience working across multiple business functions and coordinating complex transformation dependencies.
• A pragmatic hands-on approach suited to a time-bound interim leadership assignment.

Preferred Experience

• Industrial manufacturing engineering energy or other asset-intensive environments.
• Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing OT/IT convergence MES ERP and industrial data platforms.
• Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF ArchiMate or equivalent methods.
• Cloud and platform modernisation legacy technology retirement integration rationalisation and technology cost optimisation.
• Experience supporting insourcing operating-model redesign and the rebuilding of internal technology capabilities.

Assignment Details

• Location: Dubai UAE.
• Work arrangement: Fully onsite.
• Contract: Initial 3 months with potential extension.
• Programme: Approximately 18 months.
• Availability: Able to start within the next few weeks.

Important Screening Criteria

• Candidates must demonstrate practical ownership of enterprise architecture decisions and IT rationalisation outcomes rather than architecture documentation alone.

Vertical:

Technology