Solutions Architect-Infrastructure - The Emirates Group

Job Purpose: At Emirates we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better. Our Architecture team are looking for a dynamic and experienced Infrastructure Solutions Architect to join their team. The successful candidate will be expected to a rchitect design and communicate highlevel structural and behavioural aspects of a system to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs in alignment with corporate IT standards and architecture guiding principles. This necessitates engagement throughout the lifecycle of projects by taking full responsibility for the solution architecture. What you will do: Uses appropriate tools including logical models of components and interfaces to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business or functional areas. Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products. Develop fast and aligned IT architecture solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure architecture is robust appropriate and of high quality conforming to corporate IT standards and roadmaps. Leads the development of architectures for complex systems ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers. Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation. Within a business change programme assists in the preparation of technical plans and cooperates with business assurance and project staff to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available. Within a business change programme manages the target design policies and standards working proactively to maintain a stable viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme. Develop information application and technology architectures for assigned projects with established Enterprise Architecture standards. Work closely with Enterprise Architects and Principal Architects in the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies. Continuously watch industry trends identify and evaluate technologies & tool that are relevant for our business. Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams. Establish policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components and coordinates design activities promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. Ensure that appropriate standards (corporate industry national and international) are adhered to. Effectively use architectural patterns and solution designs documented in the reference architectures. Promote reuse of solutions and services. Contribute to enterprise architecture repository. Guide and Mentor the solution development by guiding and mentoring the team through the entire development process. Advising when technically challenging areas. Understand and contribute to all design needed for the solution. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams. Conduct deep dive architecture reviews of critical production applications together with Software Engineering teams. Provide architecture recommendations to short and long term improvement of application. Develop logical infrastructure solutions aligned with the technology standards. Work closely with infrastructure teams to ensure that the physical infrastructure designed meets project requirements. Work together with Senior Technical Engineers in the Software Engineering team to ensure design and implementation are in line with the proposed architecture definition. Work closely with performance testing team to ensure that final solution meets the agreed nonfunctional requirements. Collaborate closely with Principal Architects to ensure alignment of Information Application and Technology architecture to the overall architecture principles framework and guidelines.
Qualifications & Experience: What you will bring: Educational Requirements. Degree or Honours (123 or equivalent): Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or an equivalent IT related discipline or equivalent experience. Preferably higher level businessrelated qualification such as MBA Preferably certification related fields Experience Required. Specific to Infrastructure Architecture: Minimum 8 years relevant experience. Proficiency in developing and recommending infrastructure improvements and enhancements with expertise in Disaster Recovery / Auto failovers IT Service Continuity and resiliency planning for essential systems and applications. Familiarity with implementing infrastructure solutions both onpremises (like VMWare vSphere/ESXi VMWare Aria Automation VMWare NSXT HyperV Xen) and in public Clouds (Amazon / Microsoft) in diverse deployments. Collaboration with internal teams and vendors is expected. Good understanding of Infrastructure Observability/Monitoring. Knowledge of licensing models and compliance for Databases and Operating Systems across major vendors such as Oracle Microsoft and Couchbase in hybrid cloud environments. Experience in designing secure architectural solutions for PaaS IaaS and SaaS. Familiarity with security best practices for both onpremises and cloud environments is a plus. Basic experience in network architecture and implementation covering aspects like routers switches load balancers and public cloud networking. Familiarity with storage and backup architectures including cloud storage object storage block storage and backup solutions. Experience in the development of distributed mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multiuser systems. Experience of detailed business system architecture and design Specialist experience in relate fields Preferably technical leadership and architecture experience Knowledge/skills. Solid understanding of solution technologies such as Java/JEE/Oracle/BI/DW/ERP Understanding of Architecture Methods Principles and Patters (OOAD GoFSOA etc.). Understanding of Architecture and design artifacts (Archimate UML models etc. Strong understanding of industry standard development methods (e.g. RUP SCRUM) Understanding of Open Source Frameworks ( Apache Spring etc.) as well as architecture capabilities (Rules Workflows Security etc.) Leadership Role: No Safety Sensitive Role: No
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