Al Futtaim Jobs - Cloud Enterprise Architect | Enterprise IT | Dubai (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 101631 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

Come join us to live well, work better, and be the best.

 

 

About the role

We are currently seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join our Enterprise IT organization. The Cloud Architect will be responsible for defining the cloud strategy for AFG as well as the cloud principles and standards for secure, cost effective cloud adoption.  The Cloud Architect will be accountable for designing and implementing cloud services (public and private) along with ensuring AFG achieve their cloud ambitions.  They will have a wealth of exposure in projects that exploit public cloud services and will be capable of engaging with the business to sell the idea of Cloud Computing across AFG.

 

KEY ROLE SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Owns the Cloud Strategy and
• High Level design governance with a focus on deployment architectures ensuring designs are aligned to cloud principles and standards.
• Act as a catalyst and change agent for the adoption of Cloud Computing.
• Must have a great depth of expertise using Microsoft Azure covering network, Compute, Storage, Identity
• Acts as an advisor on all technologies & tools selection relating specifically on Cloud.
• Responsible for designing and implementing solutions that meet Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst adhering to Architecture principles and Technology standards.
• Identify architecture related risks for Cloud, putting the correct mitigation plan in place and managing until resolution
• Contributes to broader architectural governance activities by participating in peer reviews to ensure designs are robust, reliable and high performant
• Promotes reusability of existing cloud solutions by adopting approved design patterns
• Maintain a broad and up to date skillset of the latest market trends, competitive insights, and technologies whilst sharing these within the technical community
• Manage and maintain Enterprise Architecture Repository with the latest architecture artefacts around Cloud
• Contributes to broader architectural governance activities by participating in peer reviews to ensure designs are robust, reliable and highly performant
• High Level designs delivered on time in agreement with project milestones
• All environments as per the HLD are deployed in Azure
• Architecture risks identified with correct mitigations in place and managed until resolution or acceptance.
• Architecture Repository is accessible and updated all times with latest artefacts
• Cloud principles and standards are followed

 

PERSON SPECIFIC:

• 10+ years of work experience in an Architecture / Consulting related position ideally with experience in one of the following industries: Automotive, Retail, Real Estate or Healthcare
• Good understanding of Hybrid Cloud solutions and experienced in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery environments
• Deep understanding and experience of using Microsoft Azure covering IaaS and PaaS including the following skills/services:
• Networking (VNETs, WAN, VPN,) Compute (including availability sets), Storage Accounts (Managed Disk, Blob, etc) Azure Active Directory, SQL Server on IaaS / SQL Managed Instance, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Policies, Azure Load Balancer
• Strong experience with high availability data technologies (multi-data centre, stateless architecture, load balanced, queuing and caching systems)
• Strong background in DevOps using Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing techniques and tools.  Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and tools such as Terraform.
• Experience designing cloud native applications using Containers and Serverless technologies following Microservice based architectures.
• Strong experience in the design and implementation of multiple integration patterns covering SOA and API’s.
• Understands the key considerations in Security, Resilience and High-Availability when designing new patterns for mission-critical applications.
• Experience in large scale migrations from on-premise to cloud.
• Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical and creative in solving problems, experience in using design thinking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confident presenter with a high degree of comfort in front of audiences of all sizes and able to translate complex subjects in a simple manner (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)
• Ability to build strong relationships across multiple IT teams including infrastructure, application, security and data.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills with strong experience of working collaboratively in an agile environment using SCRUM, Kanban, etc to deliver new products and services.
• Constantly strives for better ways of doing things – does not remain happy with the status quo
• Breadth and Depth of Technical knowledge covering: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, RPA, Mobile, Web, Cloud
• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman, including the development (and ensuring adherence to) of Architecture principles and standards
• Experience in one or more of the technology areas: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Web & Mobile Technologies, Open Source Software & Next Generation IT technologies
• Highly developed critical evaluation skills, and the ability to assess the potential impact of emerging technologies
• Education: Degree in Computer Science/IT/similar

 

 

 

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