Job Purpose
The Senior Solution Designer performs a key role in the Bank, responsible for conceptualizing and crafting innovative and effective solutions that address complex business challenges.
Using a broad understanding of technical solutions available in the Bank and in the market, the Solution Designer will evaluate Business requirements and translate these into technical designs that leverage the available technical options to best solve the business need.
Besides being involved in Solution Design for specific projects, the role will also require some definition and solutioning for Enterprise Architecture domains and implementation of these technical components.
This role will take the lead in mentoring junior team members in understanding, implementing and enforcing the overall Enterprise Architecture of the Bank.
Key Accountabilities
1. Solution Design:
Description: Lead the end-to-end design of innovative, efficient, and scalable solutions that address complex business challenges and align with enterprise architecture principles.
2. Requirements Analysis:
Description: Collaborate with business stakeholders and analysts to gather, analyze, and understand requirements, ensuring a clear comprehension of the problem domain and user needs.
3. Technical Leadership:
Description: Provide expert technical guidance and leadership to development teams, making critical design decisions, and ensuring alignment with best practices.
4. Architecture Development:
Description: Develop comprehensive solution architectures that promote reusability, scalability, and adherence to enterprise standards.
5. Innovation:
Description: Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, proposing innovative solutions that drive business value and competitive advantage.
6. Documentation:
Description: Create and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of solution designs, architectural diagrams, and implementation guidelines.
7. Risk Management:
Description: Identify potential risks in solution designs and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
8. Collaboration:
Description: Collaborate effectively with project managers, developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
9. Mentorship:
Description: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and skill development.
10. Solution Evaluation:
Description: Participate in post-implementation reviews to assess the effectiveness of solutions and identify areas for improvement.
Other Accountabilities
Other Accountabilities
Job Context
The Bank has implemented a number of world-class technology solutions and the job holder would be required to work with IT and business stakeholders to ensure these solutions are used to deliver market leading customer experiences and digital solutions to Bank users.
The role will require evaluating current and new solutions with a view to ensuring that these are optimised to meet technical and business requirement, while ensuring alignment with the broader Enterprise Architecture and Business strategies.
Continuous research into technology / functional digital trends across the globe, with special emphasis on the UAE and Middle east banking trends to ensure our business is aware of such trends to attain digital strategic advantage over other competitive banks.
Education
Experience and Skills
Education level (Required/Equivalent)
• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Engineering/IT/Computer Applications.
Professional Qualifications (Desired)
• Professional certification in Project Management (PMP) and Program Management (PgMP)
• ITIL V4 (F)/ HDI-SCTL
• Database Trainings and certifications in MS SQL/Oracle/DB2/MySQL/Postgres.
• CompTIA A+/MTA, ITAM/CHAMP
• MSCA (Win 2012/2016)/AIX Tech Training/ LPIC-2/CompTIA Linux+
• CCENT
• CEH/CISSP/CompTIA-Security +
• CCSP, CCNA-Cloud, CCSK
• Formal training/Certification in MS Azure/Amazon AWS/Oracle Cloud/SAP Cloud/IBM Cloud.
• Digital Transformation (Any), RPA/ML/AI (Any), CAP.
• Certification/Training in Distributed Enterprise IT Architecture, Middleware, Web Server
• CSSLP, ISO 20022/ISO8583
• TOGAF 9.
• Formal Training/Certification in Banking Application Development.
• Formal Training/Certification in SDLC techniques.
• Formal Training/Certification in Business Analysis
Work Experience (Required)
• Minimum 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years as a full stack developer, and at least 3 years as a Solution Designer, in a reputable Bank or Software vendor.
• Banking/financial services industry experience is essential.
• Practical experience in using Enterprise Architecture and Design tools.
• Expose to managing a small sized team of IT professionals.
• Experience in vendor engagement, communication and management
• Experience of developing and implementing digital Enterprise platforms in financial services
• Track record of success designing digital initiatives using agile development methodology
• Skilled at aligning organization and business goals and Enterprise Architecture standards
• Solid understanding of IT security and ability to work with security professionals to implement and support best practices
• Experienced with both on premise and cloud technology solutions
• Business process analysis and redesign experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process redesign and implementation.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (Required)
• Good knowledge of standards and best practices and understanding of system control requirements and processes
• Extensive experience working with Open Source tools
• Cloud Architecture experience
• Good knowledge and experience of project management
• Knowledge of analytics and big data reporting platforms (Azure/AWS). Ability to understand the business and develop reporting recommendations
• Good knowledge and experience in banking digital applications
• Overall understanding of IT Infrastructure environment
• Good knowledge & experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages
• Good command of English. Arabic language would be an added advantage.
• Planning and organizing skills
• Communications skills.