Principal Architect- Business Capabilities

Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

Overall objectives

• Define, model, and manage the enterprise’s business capability landscape to support strategic alignment and transformation.
• Serve as the authoritative owner of the capability map and its relationships to processes, journeys, services, and technology.
• Ensure capability-centric thinking is embedded across architecture, planning, and delivery practices.
• Act as a key integrator between strategy, business design, and IT execution, fostering traceability and reuse.
• Enable investment planning, portfolio rationalization, and operating model design through structured capability management.
• Embed AI-driven insights and Agentic AI capabilities into business platforms and workflows to support real-time decisioning and proactive engagement.

Role specific responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise business capability map and underlying taxonomy.
• Maintain traceability between capabilities and key business architecture views: journeys, processes, value streams, services, and systems.
• Conduct capability assessments, maturity reviews, and heatmaps to identify transformation opportunities.
• Collaborate with strategy and transformation teams to map target capabilities and support gap analysis.
• Align capability changes with business cases, investment proposals, and roadmaps.
• Ensure capability information is available and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and planning tools.
• Support the definition of target operating models from a capability-centric perspective.
• Rationalize duplicate capabilities and simplify the landscape in line with target state architecture principles.
• Integrate business capabilities with enterprise data and AI foundations for real-time insights, automation, and compliance.

General functional responsibilities

• Represent capability views in architecture governance forums and strategic planning sessions.
• Align with application, data, and solution architects to ensure consistent capability mapping and reuse.
• Promote cross-functional understanding and use of capabilities for solution design, sourcing decisions, and platform planning.
• Track and report capability maturity, coverage, duplication, and business alignment KPIs.
• Mentor architects and business analysts on capability modeling, usage, and evolution practices.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture practices, with a focus on business modeling discipline.
• Collaborate with AI and data teams to embed behavioral analysis, personalization engines, and intelligent compliance into capability platforms.
  
  

Core competencies required

• Business Capability Modeling: Mastery of defining, decomposing, and structuring capabilities at various abstraction levels.
• Strategic Alignment: Ability to align capability evolution with strategic goals, regulatory changes, and business priorities.
• Governance & Reuse: Experience in managing capability taxonomies, promoting reuse, and reducing duplication across domains.
• Portfolio & Roadmap Integration: Skilled in mapping capabilities to business initiatives, programs, and technology enablers.
• Architecture Tooling: Proficiency in modeling tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, BizzDesign, Sparx EA) and capability heatmaps.
• Cross-Domain Collaboration: Strong engagement across business, enterprise architecture, and transformation teams.
• AI Integration: Experience embedding Agentic AI and domain-specific models into business platforms and workflows.
• Data-Driven Insights: Familiarity with enterprise data foundations, real-time analytics, and AI-enhanced monitoring.
• Cloud Architecture: Proficiency in designing and deploying solutions on AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Modern System Architecture: Experience with microservices, serverless computing, and containerization technologies.
• Event-Driven and Asynchronous Processing: Knowledge of event streaming platforms and asynchronous system design.
• Value Stream Alignment: Ability to align capabilities and architecture with business value streams for optimized delivery.