Application Architect

Description

Summary: This role involves developing and maintaining application architecture, assessing portfolio fit and health, defining target-state architecture, and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture principles. Highlights: 1. Develop and maintain application architecture views and roadmaps 2. Assess application fit, health, and alignment to business capabilities 3. Support application modernization and cloud adoption initiatives **Key Responsibilities** * Develop and maintain the application portfolio, application architecture views, reference architectures and lifecycle roadmaps. * Assess application fit, health, technical debt, duplication, integration dependencies and alignment to business capabilities. * Define target\-state application architecture, application rationalisation recommendations and transition roadmaps. * Review solution designs, architecture documents and non\-functional requirements for compliance with EA principles and standards. * Work with solution, data, infrastructure, security and integration teams to ensure coherent end\-to\-end designs. * Establish traceability between business capabilities, processes, applications, data entities, interfaces and technology components. * Support application modernisation, cloud adoption, package selection and migration initiatives with architecture guidance. * Contribute to architecture governance, design reviews, exceptions management, standards and EA repository quality. **Minimum Qualifications** ***Experience*** At least 5 years of relevant experience in application architecture, solution architecture, systems analysis/design, application portfolio management, or a closely related role. ***Education*** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline. ***Certification*** TOGAF certification is required or strongly preferred. ArchiMate, cloud architecture, integration, ITIL, or relevant platform certifications are advantageous. ***Technical*** ***Background Experience*** with enterprise applications, APIs/integrations, application lifecycle management and modernisation is required. **Required Knowledge \& Skills** * Strong understanding of application architecture patterns, API\-led integration, service\-oriented design and application lifecycle management. * Practical knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate application\-layer modelling; ability to create actionable architecture views. * Experience assessing application portfolios, technical debt, application health, fit\-for\-purpose and rationalisation opportunities. * Familiarity with cloud, security, data and integration considerations in enterprise solution design. * Strong stakeholder\-management, analytical, documentation and design\-review skills Pay: QAR24,700\.00 \- QAR25,700\.00 per month Experience: * Application Architecture: 5 years (Preferred) Language: * English (Preferred) License/Certification: * TOGAF certification (Preferred) * QID (Preferred) Work Location: In person