Senior Solutions Architect

Job Purpose:Create, manage and maintain the master blueprint (enterprise architecture) that guides the organization’s business and IT systems by having the vision and long-term perspective that gives the organization direction. This enables the prioritizing the business activities of etisalat and facilitates the adaptation of technology to the changing business needs.Job Description:Product change impact analysis forProducts and services evaluationCost optimization initiativesOrganization transformations and capability buildingRFP Construction and evaluationContribute to the RFP generation of new network elements and solutions to ensure consistency and covering over all solution requirements.Contributes to the evaluation of the responses to the RFP.Platform owner (SOA suite)System planning and sizingAccepts requirements from demand teams and produce high level design of the process and be accountable for task implementation during projects.Request resources from Service delivery for implementation.Provide a detailed documented description of the business process and the business process architecture.Review design with service delivery team.Design reviewReview designs made by domain experts in business, application and technology domains.Change Review Be part of the CAB for change requests that impacts the architecture, below are the change requests cases and the involvement required:New system, HW, SW or integration point (ie: an integration point is usually connecting two systems together)Removal of a system, HW, SW, integration pointChange of integration protocolKeeps architecture artifacts updated with plans and changes in the enterprise architecture repository. Enterprise Architects provide guidance to the Project Architects who apply enterprise standards and guidelines at the project level.Enterprise solution architecture: management of the solution portfolio over time. Facilitate the content development of the enterprise solution architecture, including identifying and categorizing solution patterns and associated financial and technical condition information. Defining the value-add of IT investments to organizations requires risk management, financial management and accounting skills.Qualifications University Degree in Business, Technology and/or Informatics, System Development.Familiarity with eTOM and TOGAFAble to engage at multiple levels: developer to C level leadersMinimum 4 to 8 years experience in IS/T area, preferably IT architecture development and support