Description
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES LINKED TO OBJECTIVE AREAS
1. Contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience.
2. Lead the development of new corporate IT standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
3. Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.
4. Track technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend the existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
5. Lead a team of architects to deliver architecture for the assigned area viz., information, application or technology architecture, taking full responsibility for the detailed level architecture provided. This involves guiding the development of solution scenarios/stakeholder model and identifying and evaluating appropriate strategic solution options.
6. Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.
7. Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
8. Lead a strategic incubator project that will take a strategically significant new or innovative technology or architectural approach. This involves recruiting and managing the development team, taking full responsibility for the solution architecture, leading the design and development of the solution, and taking overall responsibility for the management of the project, its budget, timescales and dependencies. Such projects will create the foundations for corporate strategic platforms on which our future critical business systems will depend. Significant experience of major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed.
9. Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of Information, Application and Technology architecture to the overall enterprise architecture principles and framework.
10. Establish SMART objectives, career development plans and training for direct reports and provide appropriate mentoring and coaching. Conduct timely annual and interim performance reviews to cultivate a high performance culture.
Digital Workplace & Productivity Architect Qualification:-
- 12 to 15 years Total experience Degree or Honors (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline or equivalent experience. Understanding of capability frameworks such as CMMI. Understanding of TOGAF, IASA, Zachman and other Enterprise Architecture frameworks. Understanding of industry standard development methods (eg RUP, SCRUM)
- Understanding of ITIL Framework. Accountabilities Ability to perform assessments, planning, design, testing, and technical documentation for the implementation, support, and migration of enterprise messaging, voice and File collaboration toolsets to Office 365 Solid Understanding of Office 365 products including Exchange, Skype, SharePoint, One Drive - on-premises Hybrid and online Strong knowledge and experience in Microsoft Access Management Solutions - Active Directory,ADFS,Azure AD, Azure AD App Proxy for publishing apps,Azure MFA etc.. Understands Microsoft MDM & Enterprise Security tools - Intune, Azure Identity and Rights Management, Enterprise Mobility Suite Understand Windows 10 and Mobile devices/BYOD can be integrated/joined with Azure AD for SSO and MDM needs Understands Exchange features, migration, and related concepts Solid experience in migrating File Shares and on-premises SharePoint sites to Office 365 SharePoint online & OneDrive for Business Experience migrating medium and large enterprise clients to Office 365 - AD/Azure AD,Exchange,SharePoint and File shares
- This candidate shall have experience migrating from on-premises SharePoint/File Shares to O365 including hybrid environments. A strong understanding of mobile device concepts, and at least a basic understanding of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite.
- This position requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to work closely with other engineers and administrators. Ability to assist Office 365 COE team in analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
- Lead the development and documentation of Digital Workplace/Content services solutions architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams. Track technologies and new business innovations in Collaboration and modern workplace domain, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
- Lead the solution shaping phase for major (more than AED 5m) complex projects, taking full responsibility for the solution architecture of the solution. This involves developing a solution scenarios/stakeholder model, identifying appropriate strategic solution options, developing high level architectures for those options, leading the evaluation of the candidate architectures, selecting the preferred solution architecture, documenting that architecture and guiding the development team in its adoption and elaboration as a solution design.
- Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are aligned to Content services standards and patterns. Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of project resources as required. Own, Manage and maintain the architecture roadmap of complex/large Projects, Products, Environments or Platforms.