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Lead Application ArchitectDXC Technology · Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Lead Application Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-12 Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market AED 30,000–AED 50,000/mo

About the Company

Impossible. Delivered. DXC Technology helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dxctechnology Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DXCTechnology TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dxctechnology Information Technology & Services Specialties: Consulting, Data & AI Impact, Design & Engineering, Custom Applications, Enterprise Applications, Insurance Software and BPS, Banking BPS, Finance & Accounting, Cyber Security, Modern Workplace, Cloud & Infrastructure

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Applications Architect to lead application architecture for a major greenfield enterprise transformation programme. Working under the central design authority, you will own the target architecture, standards, integration patterns, and roadmap across the enterprise application estate. You will lead design reviews, resolve cross-application design decisions, and guide delivery teams to build secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • ● Application Architecture & Strategy
  • ● Own the enterprise applications target architecture, principles, standards, and roadmap.
  • ● Translate business requirements into application architecture and practical delivery plans.
  • ● Evaluate application platforms and technologies, guiding build-versus-buy decisions.
  • ● Ensure application designs align with enterprise architecture and programme objectives.
  • ● Architecture Governance & Design Authority
  • ● Lead application design reviews and resolve cross-application architecture decisions.
  • ● Establish reference architectures, design guidelines, and governance practices.
  • ● Review solution designs and assure implementation quality against approved architectural standards.
  • ● Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and design gaps, and guide their resolution.
  • ● Integration & Non-Functional Design
  • ● Define application integration patterns, APIs, and data flows across the enterprise estate.
  • ● Establish design requirements for high availability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
  • ● Collaborate with data, integration, infrastructure, and cybersecurity architects to deliver coherent end-to-end solutions.
  • ● Technical Leadership & Delivery
  • ● Lead architecture initiatives and manage architectural deliverables against programme timelines.
  • ● Guide application architects and delivery teams through design and implementation.
  • ● Provide technical leadership and resolve complex architectural issues.
  • ● Coordinate across internal teams and external vendors.
  • ● Communicate architecture recommendations, decisions, risks, and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • ● TOGAF certification or experience applying an equivalent enterprise architecture framework.
  • ● Azure or AWS cloud architect certification.
  • ● Relevant application-platform or integration certifications.
  • ● An advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
  • ● Arabic language proficiency.