Lead Enterprise Architect
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months
Responsibilities:
- Provide Technical and Strategic leadership for business and IT transformation programs
- Act as advisory to senior technical and business leadership
- Provide vision and roadmap to achieve IT and business objectives
- Lead and Govern the solution architecture
- Application and technology portfolio management
Key achievements and projects:
- Re-Architect the Digital channels based on omni-channel, microservices, common data and business logic
- Revised the architecture engagement and established the design review board for agile projects
- Provided architecture principles and high-level design for digital journeys including channels and back end systems using the new digital eco-system (BPM, ESB, RPA and API Gateway platforms)
- Implementation of Technology Reference Model
- Implementation of EA repository tool (iServer)
- Delivered the target data architecture and roadmap for big data technologies and advanced analytics requirements
Responsibilities
- Applications and technology portfolio rationalization
- Standardization of solutions across the verticals (Retail, Finance, Automotive, Real Estate and Engineering) within Al Futtaim
- Research, evaluation and selection of the best fit solutions
- Ensure EA governance and strategic alignment for all new initiatives (programs, projects and changes)
Key achievements and projects
- Enterprise Application Platform as a Service - Research and recommendation for the Enterprise APaaS with key focus on mobility, omni-channel, AI and microservices capabilities.
- Middleware & target integration architecture- Produced the target middleware solution architecture and roadmap for the implementation of EAI to address cloud to on premise, cloud to cloud and on premise to on premise integration scenarios.
- Al Futtaim Retail - Robinsons - Developed the target architecture and roadmap for Robinsons MENA region.
- Al Futtaim Retail - Reviewed the applications portfolio for retail and produced the harmonization and consolidation program for migration to Retailpro 9 and SAP ERP ECC 6.0.
- Al Futtaim F&B - Developed the target architecture and roadmap for new Food & Beverages business.
- Al Futtaim Engineering - Produced the digital transformation program. Assessment and selection of a SaaS solution that fit to target architecture and mobile field force (technicians and engineers) requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead as technical consultant and advisory
- Produce transformation programs and roadmaps
- Define enterprise architecture vision, strategy and principles
- Define standards, reference architectures that guide project teams
- Ensure strategic business and IT alignment
- Application & Infrastructure Portfolio management
Key achievements and projects
- Business Architecture - Developed and successfully executed the customized Business-IT alignment (BITA) framework
- Strategic Transformation - Delivered the three year strategic and digital transformation program for Group Finance and Private Banking divisions.
- Emirates NBD Egypt - Strategic roadmap for the rationalization and migration of application and infrastructure post BNP Paribas operations acquisition
- Design and Architecture - Delivered the high level design and systems architecture for MS SharePoint 2010 & 2013, Siebel CRM, QlikView, Calypso, RSA Security Analytics and various other systems in the bank
- Applications Portfolio Management - Application portfolio rationalization roadmap for all international locations (Egypt, KSA, Singapore, London) and Group Entities (Emirates NBD, Emirates Islamic, Network International, Tanfeeth, Emirates NBD Captial)
- Oracle Applications - Integration of legacy ERP systems into one platform using Oracle EBusiness Suite (HRMS, CRM, GL, AP, AR, P2P, Properties Management system)
- Oracle Incentive and Compensation (Cloud) - Target Architecture and integration of data between on premise to cloud solution
- Data warehouse - Assisting Business intelligence team in deriving the state of the art architecture for enterprise data warehousing solution using Sybase IQ, SAS Analytics, Informatica and Cognos
- Emirates NBD Group Mobile Apps - Architecture and design for mobile applications backend for customer and employee facing applicaions (Tablets and smartphones)
Details can be provided upon request
Details can be provided upon request
Details can be provided upon request