Lead Architect - Service Design

LEAD ARCHITECT - SERVICE DESIGN; LEADING RETAIL BANK, ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

My client, a leading retail bank in the United Arab Emirates region, require a lead architect to join The Technology Design (Solution Architecture) team within the IT delivery organisation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring delivery of highest quality solution design for all software development across all businesses in the firm. The team is responsible for the delivery across BAU and projects work stream and delivers design for multiple concurrent projects for several internal and external stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES;

SOLUTION DESIGN

- Proactively anticipate business needs for new services and initiate implementation
- Continuously analyse gaps between business requirements and the existing capabilities in terms of the services and business applications that are available in the existing the landscape, and recommend solutions to close the gaps
- Review business requirement(s) and potential solutions produced by the Domain Architects for Consumer, Wholesale, Treasury and Support Functions from a SOA perspective

MANAGEMENT

- Ensure smooth transition of service design to development, testing and other project stakeholders

GOVERNANCE

- Maintain change ownership of Service Catalogue for the Bank and find opportunities to enhance the service landscape
- Enforce SOA design principles/governance on all initiatives
- Ensure deliverables are compliant to the security and compliance policies of the bank

REQUIREMENTS

- 8+ years IT experience in a service oriented design environment, preferably in banks
- Required at least 3+ years of experience conducting analysis and modelling solutions using RSA and RTC, good understating of IBM Modelling Tools - RRC, RQM
- Experience in business process modelling tools (eg UML), information architecture (wireframes etc)
- Detailed understanding of Technology integration concepts - Web Services, ESB, SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, XML, XSD
- Has been a SOA practitioner with experience with at least 2 SOA transformation exercises and in depth understanding of design elements, Service Oriented Computing, Service Orientation and Design Principles
- Fair understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (such as BIAN) and has used these in SOA implementations
- TOGAF Foundation Certification is mandatory
- High-level understanding of key business domains - Consumer Banking, Wholesale Banking, Treasury and the Support Functions in a bank
- Certification in SOA, preferably IBM, is an added advantage

PLEASE FORWARD YOUR CV TO (SEE BELOW) ASAP FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.