Position: Head of Architecture
Company: iT-Outstaffing™
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

The full-time workload on a remote basis
Start - ASAP
Duration - long term

We are interested in considering candidates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Bahrain. The candidates must be ready to work onsite in the client's office or to be ready to relocate. It's a very significant requirement!

**About the role**
The role of Head of architecture is diverse, but the main intention is to align strategic objectives and tactical demands. The Head of Architecture will work in conjunction with enterprise and technical architects to oversee and strategize business capabilities. This role will report to the CEO and dotted line to the CTO/PMO

**About the project**
You’ll be a part of an innovative digital banking product team. The bank is pioneering new horizons for customers with a core mission to create a more financially literate society that can succeed in a thriving economy. This will be achieved by introducing smart financial solutions. 
We will accelerate digitization and help to reach a cashless society. Providing financial solutions across industry value chains, we aim to support the growth of all sectors of the economy. By facilitating banking access to segments traditionally considered high-risk, we aim to promote financial inclusion. Using continuous Data Analysis in our AI Engine and our PFM solution, we will help our customers better spend and save money.

**Responsibilities:**
● Responsible for managing the architecture and design authority function: oversee adherence to the architecture strategy, principles and framework throughout IT.
● Defining the technology solution and environment roadmaps to ensure capacity and scalability, as demand and usage evolve within the business.
● Create and maintain a clear architectural vision whilst also building, leading, governing, and reporting on the architectural function
● Be the single point of contact for the Senior Management Team ensuring enterprise architecture is a key business activity with senior stakeholders
● Establish key reporting metrics for the architecture function that inform senior stakeholders on progress and risks
● Provide subject matter expertise to strategic, complex, and high-impact projects to ensure we deliver them successfully
● Use best practice architectural frameworks and methodologies to ensure optimal outcomes.

**People Management :**
● Build and maintain a strong, constructive working relationship with their staff, focused on achieving business goals and enabling their staff to work safely to their full potential.
● Set effective baseline conditions for productive work by completing important people management processes of selection, induction, assessment and recognition of performance.
● Ensure business plans are developed to achieve strategic priorities and performance goals of team members are aligned, ensuring accountabilities and authorities are clear and that direct reports have the authorities needed to be able to achieve their work.
● Ensure the team works collaboratively to leverage the collective capability, make better decisions and move forward with commitment.
● Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement to build a culture of service excellence

**What background are we expecting?**
● Guide and direct the Architecture Team.
● Review and audit architectural deliverables.
● Maintain architectural standards and principles.
● Provide architectural support to major projects.
● Definition of enterprise architecture models and roadmaps in alignment with the business and technology strategies.
● Extensive experience in senior IT architectural roles within challenging environments
● Professional qualifications in architectural frameworks and best practice such as TOGAF and Zachman
● Experience working in banking sphere;
● Demonstrable ability to act as a subject matter expert in areas of enterprise IT such as software development, project lifecycle and service delivery
● Deep understanding of cloud or SaaS solutions and the architectures required to exploit them effectively
● Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to negotiate, collaborate and influence at all levels

**If you think you are the right person, we'd welcome your application!**