Urgent requirement for Solution Architect -Digital Platform in Aviation domain is required for our client in Abu Dhabi ,UAE Responsible for developing design & Architecture for implementing websites, mobile, social and other e-commerce applications that are following agile architecture principles & standards (emergent design, intentional design)---Must design & development of technology solutions for Digital platforms with special focus on Digital channels (Web & Mobile), Offer, Order, CVM and Personalization, Customer Management, and payment systems--Must Digital banking/Fintech; Digital retail experience is highly desirable Purpose of the Role The purpose of this role is to lead and drive the design & development of technology solutions for Digital platforms with special focus on Digital channels (Web & Mobile), Offer, Order, CVM and Personalization, Customer Management, and payment systems. The role should provide thought leadership and strategic direction, to influence the overall roadmap with initiatives that are value generating. Working with business stakeholders and internal and external development teams, the role will ensure the alignment of solution designs conforming to regulatory demands, architectural standards, business requirements, budgets, and IT strategy Roles And Responsibilities • Responsible for developing design & Architecture for implementing websites, mobile, social and other e-commerce applications that are following agile architecture principles & standards (emergent design, intentional design) • Provide holistic and connected solution design that meets the business strategy and requirements. • Being an integral part of the value stream, this role is responsible for developing short term & long-term roadmap along with target state architecture with clear transition steps to improve digital landscape in organisation. This includes developing specific design patterns, standards, and an active architecture runway on an ongoing basis. • Responsible for creating and maintaining Architecture Runway for digital technologies, and drive • transformation of our digital channel and platforms. • Ensure solution and technology architecture standards, governance and principles are implemented effectively within the value streams using the well Architected Framework. • implemented as designed. • Build strong relationships with our partners and extended team members, and embrace collaborative approach to developing strategies, solutions, business cases, white papers etc. • Provide consultation to the product and project delivery teams, identifying and owning ways to apply new or existing technologies to support business initiatives, innovation, facilitating the reuse of ideas, components, services, and proven patterns within the value stream • Develop the design and implementation of solution architecture as part of both agile and waterfall delivery, enabling speed to market • Be an active member of the working group to improve the maturity of Architecture practice, by constantly evaluating and making necessary changes to patterns, standards, policies, guardrails, and other enablers. • Supports Digital, Commercial and Operations business units with solutions to grow customer acquisitions, upsells / cross-sells and self-service capabilities for their respective business unit channels • Works with other domain architects to define, design and flexibly integrate the reusable digital experience capabilities required to support the diverse set of channels and is responsible to align them into the end-to-end architecture • Works with Data and Integration architects to drive contextual and real-time offers to customers at the right time in their digital journey • Works in agile design & delivery, CI/CD setup to design and deploy large-scale high performance and distributed web applications • Signs off on the SoW, integration specifications and works with the vendor(s) on the detailed design alignment and sign-off • Accountable and responsible for the successful scoping of the go-live solution and ensures all target design timelines are strictly adhered to • Defines all phases and tracks what needs to be implemented; scopes the tracks and hands over to implementation teams to deliver • Supports parallel business transformation tracks such as financial business case, customer experience and product portfolio / rationalization • Authors the contractual technical scope of work with selected vendor(s) an is expected to contribute to the definition of the non-technical scope • Member of Design authority and formalizes the approval process for high level designs and deliverables • Ensures delivery teams adhere to designs and architecture captured in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) repository • Functional • Development experience such as Java, Scala, Python, Spring, Angular, HTML5, CSS3 • Any: ecommerce (hybris, etc), Selfservice (oracle WCS), omni-channel (SAP/Netcracker/qvantel/ Oracle/Dynacommerce, cerillion), Mobile App development (iOS, Android), API Management Platform (e.g. Mulesfot, Dell Boomi, Oracle Fusion, MS Biztalk, Google/Apigee, Software AG, AWS Gateway, IBM API Connect) • BSS applications & integration experience: CRM, CPC, COM, CPQ • CMS platforms: Drupal, Oracle, Liferay • Mobile web (adaptive, responsive), Progressive Web App, mobile app (native, hybrid), APIs (RESTful/OData/JSON) and API design • AWS and Azure public cloud, Containerisation (Docker), Orchestration-Kubernetes, Kafka & service mesh (Envoy, Istio, AWS App Mesh, etc.), cloud tech, devops and micro-services (experience in NodeJS, Spring Boot etc), APIs (RESTful/OData/JSON) and API design, CI/CD Automation (CloudFormation, TerraForm, AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Jenkins…) • Experienced within Digital delivery environments such as mobile, web & social media platforms • Experienced in delivering highly integrated and multi-channel solutions • Experience of Enterprise architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, and other integration • Experience in the developing API-based and Service Oriented architecture • Experience with the architecture of mission critical, high transaction volume environments • Experience with the full software development life-cycle using traditional and agile methodologies. • EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant advanced degree is mandatory. • Solution and Technology Architecture expertise with a minimum of 10 years of work experience, with at least 5 years in aviation, and with a proven track record in executing complex IT projects. Prior experience in architecting • One or more Certification in Solution and/or Enterprise Architecture desirable – e.g. Well Architected Frameworks, SAFe Architect, TOGAF, Open Certified Architect, Microservice Architecture • Experience of other sectors such as Digital banking/Fintech; Digital retail experience is highly desirable. • Identifying technology solutions to expand the channel footprint and penetration rate for unassisted and partner channels is of prime importance and the candidate is expected to have relevant cutting edge technology knowledge and experience in architecting such solutions • Digital transformation – must have worked on legacy to ‘new era /digital’ transformation; including scoping MVP and MVA [minimum viable architecture] • Proven experience in delivering solutions that are driving customer engagement, penetration and revenue on digital channels Skills: customer management,devops,azure,aws,api management,solution architecture,digital platforms,design,agile methodologies,"solution architect",web development,digital,architecture,microservices,ci/cd automation,containerization,mobile development,payment systems,e-commerce applications,technology architecture