Job Role:- Solution Architect
Job Location:- Dubai, UAE
Experience:- 12+ Years
Roles Overview:- - Lead end-to-end solution architecture for web, mobile, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
- Define architecture standards, patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
- Translate business and product requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions.
- Provide technical leadership across application architecture, cloud, integration, and security.
Job Roles & Responsibilities:- - Design end-to-end solutions balancing user experience, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, and security.
- Architect web and mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and supporting ecosystems.
- Develop and maintain reusable architectural patterns, standards, and guidelines.
- Design integrations across mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, and cloud platforms.
- Apply cloud-native technologies including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, service mesh, and virtualization.
- Incorporate security requirements covering authentication, authorization, encryption, application security, infrastructure security, and cloud security.
- Collaborate with information security teams to protect data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Conduct architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards.
- Use architecture and data modelling tools to create solution designs and technical documentation.
- Coach and mentor junior and associate architects.
- Collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions.
Skills & Requirements:- - 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture.
- 5+ years of experience designing web/mobile applications, microservices, and APIs.
- 5+ years of experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, service mesh, and virtualization.
- Minimum 2?4 years of hands-on experience as a Solution Architect.
- 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity/information security.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, software engineering, and cybersecurity.
- Strong expertise in microservices, APIs, application development, integration, and cloud architecture.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, event streams, message brokers, and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, Logging & Monitoring, OWASP Top 10, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, OCI, and OpenShift.
- Experience with Enterprise Architect and data modelling tools.
- Strong understanding of architectural design patterns and enterprise integration.
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Strong decision-making, time management, and expectation management abilities.
- Ability to work independently and mentor technical teams.
- TOGAF certification is preferred/required.
- Hands-on experience in Microservices Architecture.
- Strong knowledge of High-Level Design (HLD) and architectural design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Cloud-Native Infrastructure.
- Practical experience with containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud-native technologies.
