Technical Architect E-Commerce - Dubai

Technical Architect E-commerce/web/digital/Internet solution space delivering transformation. This is an EXCEPTIONAL opportunity to deliver for a MARKET LEADING and EXTRAORDINARY Global organisation. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience. Lead the development of new corporate IT standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards. Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams. Track technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape. Lead the solution shaping phase for major complex projects, taking full responsibility for the architecture of the solution. This involves developing a solution scenarios/stakeholder model, identifying appropriate strategic solution options, developing high level architectures for those options, leading the evaluation of the candidate architectures, selecting the preferred solution architecture, documenting that architecture and guiding the development team.