Vice President Enterprise Architecture

Define and drive the enterprise architecture vision aligned with business strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready technology solutions.

• Defining and driving the enterprise architecture vision aligned with business strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready technology solutions.
• Leading architecture governance, guiding major transformation initiatives, and fostering adoption of emerging technologies.
• Evaluating and recommending technology standards, overseeing solution design integrity, and enabling cross-functional alignment and mentoring architecture teams, drives innovation through POCs, and ensures architecture compliance across projects.
• Strategic collaboration with business and IT leaders to influence technology investment decisions and achieve long-term digital goals is essential for success in this role.
• Navigate complex, fast-paced environments while aligning evolving technologies with business needs.
• Should bring deep expertise in cloud, AI, and emerging tech integration, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and industry frameworks like TOGAF.
• Operating at a global scale, they should align architecture strategies with diverse business and regulatory landscapes, enforce governance, mitigate risks, and drive resilience.
• Should collaborate across departments and with IT teams to design effective solutions, foster continuous improvement, manage vendor relationships, and communicate architectural initiatives clearly.
• Culturally adept, should be able to thrive in multidisciplinary, global teams, ensuring architecture supports strategic and operational objectives.
• Seasoned technology leader with 16–20 years of experience in solution design, enterprise architecture governance, and modern cloud technologies.
• Proven expertise in architecting and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient solutions using Azure Cloud functions and services.
• Adept at aligning technology strategies with business objectives, driving innovation, and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture frameworks and governance standards.
• Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing complex initiatives, and fostering collaboration across business and IT units to deliver value-driven outcomes.
  
  

The leading financial institution in MENA

While more than half a century old, we proudly think like a challenger, startup, and innovator

in banking and finance, powered by a diverse and dynamic team who put customers first.

Together, we pioneer key innovations and developments in banking and financial services.

Our mandate? To help customers find their way to Rise Every Day, partnering with them through

the highs and lows to help them reach their goals and unlock their unique vision of success.

Delivering superior service to clients by leading with innovation, treating colleagues with dignity and fairness while pursuing opportunities that grow shareholders value.

We actively contribute to the community through responsible banking in our mission to inspire more people to Rise.

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