Digital Solution Architect

Company: RAKBANK
Location: Dubai – United Arab Emirates
Employment Type: Full-time
Description:
RAKBANK, also known as the National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah, is a Public Joint Stock Company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was founded in 1976 and is one of the oldest banks in the UAE. The Bank operates within retail and corporate banking, offering a range of services including personal and business banking, credit cards, loans, investment services, and wealth management.

In the recent years, the Bank has achieved significant milestones which includes being named as one of the world’s best banks by Forbes ME (2022) and was awarded UAE’s SME Bank of the year by the Asian Banking and Finance Awards. The Bank has been successful in achieving the highest profitability and lowest cost of risk since 2015. It has also seen significant growth in its acquiring business, card spending, and business loans.

Being on a transformational journey, in partnership with Honeywell, RAKBANK has also taken steps towards sustainability by reducing its overall energy consumption.

We are a… diverse team comprising of over 3,000 employees from across 58 countries. We make conscious efforts to build talented and diversified teams and encourage people to develop their full potential. We are committed to providing a working environment that promotes work-life balance, career development, recognition and security for the future.

In line with our strategy, a major part of our transformation journey is to future proof our bank and establish ourselves as a ‘Digital bank with human touch’, for our customers.

So join us in co-creating the future of RAKBANK!

What You Will Be Doing
• Responsibility to provide solutions for various projects under the digital banking domain of the bank.
• Will spearhead the acceleration of Digital initiatives and drive change that creates a business opportunity through technology innovation
• Should create technical solution to specific business problems and requirements within the company’s business strategy and considering the company’s Enterprise Architecture roadmap.
• Should provide solution in line with Agile and Devops oriented project delivery.
• Design digital solution considering SOA, Open API, Micro services architecture principles wherever applicable
• Should build end to end solution keeping customer first methodology with respect to web/mobile app, Multichannel framework, BPM, CRM, Data & Analytics components.
• Present tactical and strategic options architecture and solution to senior management.
• To participate in the Bank’s IT strategy formulation and provide research on latest digital technology.
• To Define Technology Roadmap and govern technology portfolio from Enterprise/Digital Application Architecture perspective.
• Responsible to research current and developing technology options that can be adopted by the bank to meet business requirements such as Micro services, SOA new pattern, Block chain, Open API.
• Responsible for the technology plan that ensures the Bank remains in step with the documented standards.
• Responsible for maintaining the documentation on the interactions of the various systems running in the Bank.
• Responsible for elaborating and documenting the Bank’s approach to achieving a service oriented architecture or other agreed standard that emerges.
• Responsible, along with the development team, vendors for identifying design and development tools for most effective delivery of integration development tasks.

What You Should Have
• Competencies, Digital, Web & Mobile App Architecture, Micro services, Containerization, Observability, and Integration technologies, Agile, Cloud, Devops, and Presentation Skills.
• Digital Architect would own the end-to-end journey right from ideation, conceptualization and business requirements to an executable technical journey.

What We Are Looking For
• 10-12 years of experience with Bachelor of Engineering / MCA /Masters in Computer Science.
• Must have; Cloud Certification (AWS/Azure), Devops Fundamentals. CKD and TOGAF Certification.
• Hands-on experience on designing and implementing the observability principles. • Must have executed at least two projects on Kubernetes/AWS EKS or any other cloud service provider implementations.
• Proficient in different Architecture Inter service patterns – Event driven architecture, Pub/Sub, REST and gRPC and Proto Bufs, Message Queues
• Mandatory hands-on experience on API security OAuth2, SAML, IDP integrations with back-end services.

What’s In It for You?
• Pay for performance culture (Competitive and performance-linked compensation)
• Provision of medical care plan for your family and you
• Comprehensive Life insurance plan
• Relocation assistance
• Diverse workforce and inclusive culture
• Career development and growth opportunities by design
• Work with the best minds in the field
• Get opportunities to bring your whole-self to the organization and perform to your best

Source: LinkedIn

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