Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect
- Digital Transformation Job Snapshot Role: Enterprise Architect
- Digital Transformation

Location:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: IT and Services Function: Software-System Architecture

Experience:
12 years in technology leadership, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or digital transformation, including at least 5 years in enterprise architecture leadership

Job Type
Full-time Enterprise Architect
- Digital Transformation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior IT and Services opportunity for an experienced technology strategist responsible for defining enterprise architecture, guiding modernization, and aligning business priorities with scalable technology investments. Apparel Group is hiring an Enterprise Architect to shape future-state architecture across retail, e-commerce, supply chain, customer, data, cloud, and corporate platforms while enabling omnichannel capabilities, AI-driven innovation, enterprise standardization, and long-term technology resilience. Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: IT and Services Function: Software-System Architecture

Salary:
40000-60000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type
Full-time Role Context The Enterprise Architect will establish the architectural direction for a large multi-brand organization undergoing continuous digital transformation. The position connects business strategy with enterprise technology by defining target-state architecture, capability models, standards, reference architectures, integration patterns, cloud strategies, and multi-year technology roadmaps. The role spans ERP, POS, e-commerce, CRM, loyalty, merchandising, supply chain, finance, HR, data platforms, AI, and corporate systems. By reducing technical debt, improving interoperability, rationalizing applications, and strengthening architecture governance, the Enterprise Architect will help create a more scalable, reusable, secure, and cost-efficient technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy aligned with business priorities and long-term transformation objectives.
- Develop target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmaps covering core enterprise platforms and digital capabilities.
- Translate strategic business initiatives into scalable business capabilities, technology services, and architectural requirements.
- Partner with business leaders, transformation teams, product owners, and technology stakeholders to align technology investments with measurable business outcomes.
- Establish enterprise architecture principles, standards, frameworks, patterns, and governance processes.
- Lead architecture reviews for major transformation programs and technology investments.
- Evaluate proposed solutions for scalability, security, interoperability, performance, resilience, and alignment with enterprise standards.
- Identify architecture exceptions and establish appropriate remediation or governance actions.
- Rationalize the application portfolio by identifying redundant systems, technology duplication, technical debt, and consolidation opportunities.
- Recommend modernization strategies that improve platform efficiency while reducing unnecessary complexity.
- Define enterprise integration architecture based on API-first, event-driven, reusable, and loosely coupled patterns.
- Establish reference patterns for integration between ERP, POS, e-commerce, CRM, supply chain, merchandising, finance, HR, and customer platforms.
- Collaborate with data and analytics teams to define enterprise data architecture principles and governance requirements.
- Support development of master data strategies, enterprise data standards, and AI-ready data foundations.
- Guide architecture for data lakehouse, analytics, reporting, machine learning, and intelligent automation environments.
- Partner with digital, omnichannel, and customer experience teams to develop architecture supporting seamless customer journeys.
- Enable technology capabilities for loyalty, personalization, digital commerce, customer engagement, and connected retail experiences.
- Evaluate AI, Generative AI, automation, cloud technologies, and emerging retail solutions for strategic relevance and business value.
- Recommend adoption approaches based on scalability, maturity, risk, cost, and integration requirements.
- Develop architecture blueprints, capability maps, reference architectures, domain models, and future-state operating models.
- Provide architectural leadership across ERP environments including SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable enterprise platforms.
- Guide architecture across POS and store technology ecosystems.
- Support architecture decisions involving e-commerce and omnichannel platforms.
- Provide direction for CRM, customer loyalty, and personali