Solutions Senior Architect job at Etisalat

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.

Main Responsibilities:

Product change impact analysis for
 Products and services evaluation
 Cost optimization initiatives
 Organization transformations and capability building
RFP Construction and evaluation
 Contribute in the RFP generation of new network elements and solutions to ensure consistency and covering over all solution requirements.
 Contributes in the evaluation of the responses to the RFP.
Platform owner (SOA suite)
 System planning and sizing
 Accepts 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 review
 Review 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 point
 Change of integration protocol
Keeps 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_ESSENTIAL

University Degree in Business, Technology and/or Informatics, System Development.

QUALIFICATIONS_DESIRABLE

Essential:
- System Architect Fundamentals training
- System Architect Advanced training
- TOGAF training
- SOA training
Desirable:
- NGOSS

EXPERIENCE_ESSENTIAL

Minimum 5 to 8 years Experience in IS/T area, preferably IT architecture development and support