Job description
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collaboration with IT teams to design, improve and enforce technology architecture design principles, governance, and standards across the solutions landscape.
- Adopt API and Microservices, Drive External API, Internal API, API Connect and Microservices Adoption across technologies.
- Lead technical team to follow Security Architecture and Standards.
- In collaboration with IT Security Operations, ensure security vulnerabilities are fixed across all projects.
- Define a practical, implementable and actionable architectural vision and framework, customized to business requirements.
- Ensure that non-functional requirements have been included and are implemented as part of solution architecture.
- Establish conceptual architecture documentation based on strategy.
- Define and implement key strategic technology platforms and solutions for the future growth and success of the business.
- Create and develop technology radar with goal of tracking emerging technology trends and evangelizing potential areas to infuse into continuous innovation pipeline.
- Develop API and micros-services architectures.
- Develop processes and tools including continuous integration and deployment.
- Responsible for the appropriateness of technology architecture solutions delivered to the technology teams of the bank.
- Develop and present to Technology management on Procurement, Innovations and influence decision making.
- Provide a consensus-based enterprise architecture roadmap that is scalable, adaptable and fit for bank’s architecture landscape.
- Provide recommendations to the projects and applications on technical architecture and any deviations to be highlight.
- Ensure that architecture future models are developed in an efficient, sustainable, agile and adaptable manner, to link business requirements and technology strategy.
- Provide application consolidation approach based on architecture strategy and business requirements.
- Share best practices, lessons learned and constantly update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
- Ensure correct adoption of policies and procedures to guarantee that QNB ALAHLI business is conducted in compliance with Local Laws, Internal rules and regulations, as well as International Standards.
- Ensure the correct functioning and implementation of Permanent Supervision system, compliance, operational risk & workplace success guidelines whenever & wherever possible.