199 Software Architects jobs in the United Arab Emirates

We are seeking a skilled professional to accelerate growth and advance their career in a dynamic enterprise architecture environment. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of architectural principles and governance frameworks, with strong knowledge in one or more domains—business architecture, data & AI, infrastructure & cloud.

Technology Architect and Delivery Leader

• Collaborate with stakeholders to comprehend business requirements.
• Develop strong application functional and architecture knowledge, focusing on delivering change and managing applications for stability.
• Effective oral and written communication skills to articulate IT benefits.
• Strong organizational, team building, and leadership qualities to lead diverse staff.
• Program management and general management skills to lead teams in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of application development, maintenance, and support, as well as operation systems, controls, and utilities.
• Awareness of new and emerging technologies, particularly in the sphere of operation.
• Experience in managing complex banking programs/projects.
• Extensive awareness of latest technology trends in banking and financial services.
• Strong Portfolio/Program management and general management skills.
• 8-10 years' experience in Corporate Global Transaction Banking in ERP - Host to Host, API integrations.
• Open Banking expertise and extensive experience in product management and/or payments overall.
• Corporate Transaction banking domain knowledge and good knowledge/exposure of Banking applications/platforms.
• Technical skills: Java 8+, Oracle Database, Oracle PLSQL, REST services, SOAP web services, Oracle Web-logic, nodeJS, JQuery, Knockout JS.
• Expert understanding of industry standards, platforms, and tools to drive technology strategy for Global Transaction Banking.
• High energy, motivated leader who can influence across functions to drive projects/initiatives to completion.
• Previous experience in managing a team.
• Excellent command of both written and spoken English.

• Strong technical skills in Java 8+, Oracle Database, and other relevant technologies.
• Good knowledge/exposure of Banking applications/platforms.
• Corporate Transaction banking domain knowledge.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

• Chance to work with cutting-edge technology.
• Be part of a high-performing team.
• Contribute to driving business success.

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IT Services and IT Consulting

Job Overview:

The role of Business Analyst is a key position in our organization, responsible for leading end-to-end business analysis for hospitality projects involving system integrations and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Conduct thorough business analysis to identify opportunities for operational improvements through gap analysis, process mapping (As-Is & To-Be), and root cause analysis.
2. Collaborate with stakeholders, including operations, marketing, sales, and IT teams, to gather and document detailed business functional and nonfunctional requirements.
3. Translate business needs into system designs and product features by working closely with product managers, solution architects, and UX/UI teams.
4. Support system implementation, data migration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) across multiple hospitality systems.
5. Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for service delivery and customer satisfaction.
6. Facilitate workshops, requirement gathering sessions, and stakeholder interviews to ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions.
7. Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for hospitality platforms, industry best practices, and compliance standards.
8. Prepare business cases, cost-benefit analysis, and feasibility studies for new initiatives.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong domain expertise in hospitality industry operations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Good understanding of Spanish or Arabic language is a plus.

Benefits and Work Arrangements:

Remote work option available. Full-time position with flexible working hours.

Company Description

Join the UAE's largest bank and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders, and communities to grow through differentiation, agility, and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark at a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

• Ensure architectural integrity, alignment, and compliance across business, data, and technology domains.
• Act as a governance lead within enterprise architecture forums, driving consistency, traceability, and strategic alignment.
• Support the development and enforcement of architecture standards, principles, and decision frameworks.
• Facilitate collaboration across domain architects to ensure cohesive and integrated enterprise architecture.
• Contribute to the evolution of architecture governance models, tools, and practices.

• Lead and participate in architecture governance forums to review and approve solution designs.
• Ensure traceability of architecture decisions to enterprise strategies, standards, and business outcomes.
• Collaborate with domain architects to assess solution compliance and identify gaps or risks.
• Maintain architecture repositories, including decision logs, reusable patterns, and reference models.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments related to architecture practices.
• Promote reuse, standardization, and alignment across business, data, and technology domains.

• Contribute to the refinement of enterprise architecture governance frameworks and operating models.
• Align with transformation programs to ensure architecture governance supports agility and innovation.
• Track and report governance metrics, decision outcomes, and compliance checkpoints.
• Assist in the development of architecture training, onboarding, and awareness programs.
• Support the integration of governance tools with enterprise architecture platforms and repositories.

• Governance & Standards: Deep understanding of architecture principles, governance frameworks, and compliance processes.
• Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge in one or more domains—business architecture, data & AI, infrastructure & cloud.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in working with domain architects, business leaders, and delivery teams to ensure alignment.
• Architecture Modeling: Proficient in using modeling tools and techniques (e.g., capability maps, data lineage, infrastructure blueprints).
• Decision Facilitation: Experience in architecture review boards, decision logs, and risk assessments.
• Communication & Influence: Ability to articulate governance value and influence adherence across diverse teams.

Manage, supervise, plan, and monitor technology enterprise architecture practices at the Employers level in close collaboration with the digital strategy section and Employers' technology departments to implement the Employers' technology roadmap in line with Dubai Government vision and direction, Employers' business needs, and Dubai citizens and customer expectations.

1. Citizenship: UAE National
2. Experience: 3-5 years
3. Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering from a recognized university.
4. Skills:
   • Results-driven achiever with exemplary planning and organizational skills, along with a high degree of detail orientation.
   • Flexible team player who thrives in environments requiring the ability to prioritize effectively and juggle multiple concurrent projects.
   • Innovative problem solver capable of generating workable solutions and resolving complaints.
   • Ability to initiate and lead strategy and enterprise architecture initiatives and roadmaps supporting strategic and operational goals.
   • Highly analytical thinker with talent for identifying, scrutinizing, improving, and streamlining complex work processes.
   • Knowledge of strategy practices such as Balanced Scorecard (BSC), PESTEL, SWOT, enterprise architecture standards like TOGAF, and Project/Portfolio management practices.
   • Minimum 7 years of experience as a senior enterprise architect or in a key role within an enterprise architecture function.
   • Goal-driven leader who maintains a productive environment and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards.
   • Excellent enterprise architecture strategy and project governance skills to develop and oversee consultants and enterprise architects.
   • Exceptional listening and communication skills, both verbal and written.
   • Resourceful team player skilled at building trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.
   • Computer-literate performer with extensive proficiency across various software applications.

Attractive salary range: AED 40,000 - AED 55,000 per month depending on years of experience. Full Dubai Government benefits.

Description

Apt Resources is seeking a seasoned Travel & Hospitality Consultant to join our client's team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to strategic digital transformation initiatives across the hospitality sector while also helping grow the client's Hospitality Practice and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. The role requires specific expertise in the hotel management business domain as well as exposure to the travel tech space to bring the most value to our internal and external clients.

• Act as Senior Business Analyst in international Enterprise Architecture engagements offering proactive process improvements.
• Deliver high-quality consulting artifacts for CXO-level and operational stakeholders.
• Lead business analysis for hospitality systems including PMS, POS, CRM, OTA integrations, loyalty programs, and guest experience platforms.
• Gather, document, and analyze detailed business processes and functional requirements across operations, sales, marketing, finance, and IT.
• Conduct gap analysis, root cause analysis, and process mapping (e.g., guest journey transformation).
• Collaborate with product architecture and design teams to define system features and digital product roadmaps.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for hospitality solutions and compliance standards.
• Support implementations, data migration, and UAT processes as a hospitality domain SME.
• Define KPIs and track customer satisfaction and service delivery metrics.
• Lead workshops and one-on-one stakeholder interviews to gather requirements.
• Prepare business cases, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Ensure alignment between technical solutions and business needs.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the Hospitality business domain
• Strong knowledge of hospitality systems such as PMS, POS, CRM, OTA integrations, loyalty programs, and guest experience platforms.
• Experience working as a Business Analyst or Consultant on technology or process improvement projects.
• Ability to gather and analyze business requirements , map processes, and suggest operational improvements.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams , including IT, operations, marketing, sales, and finance.
• Experience supporting system implementations , user acceptance testing (UAT) , and data migration .
• Skilled in creating business cases , conducting feasibility studies , and presenting to CXO-level stakeholders .
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English .

Salary: AED 30,000

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development of our data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Strategic Data Platform Leadership: Develop an enterprise-wide data architecture strategy that supports interoperability, AI/ML readiness, and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Lead the evolution of our AWS-based data lake architecture, supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data types, particularly FHIR-formatted JSON healthcare data.
• Cloud Data Lake & Storage Optimization: Design and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective data lakes using Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Athena, Redshift, and Lake Formation.
• Leverage Mountpoint for S3 to enable high-performance, POSIX-compliant access to S3 objects, including vectorized data files.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for performance and cost-efficiency, including partitioning, file formats (e.g., Parquet, ORC), and compression techniques.
• AI/ML Enablement and Vector Infrastructure: Collaborate with data science teams to implement embedding models, vectorization pipelines, and real-time inference architectures.
• Design and manage vector storage systems (e.g., S3-based, FAISS, Pinecone, or Amazon OpenSearch) to support semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and intelligent data access.
• Ensure vectorized data pipelines are aligned with model training, evaluation, and deployment strategies.
• Healthcare Data Architecture & Interoperability: Architect systems to ingest, process, and store FHIR-compliant JSON data from EHRs, APIs, and HL7 sources.
• Ensure conformance with healthcare interoperability standards and optimize for queryability and downstream analytics.
• Implement data normalization and enrichment pipelines for use in both clinical and operational contexts.
• Security, Compliance & Governance: Lead efforts to ensure data security at rest and in transit using AWS-native encryption, IAM, VPC controls, and bucket policies.
• Implement and manage data access controls, audit logging, and role-based security models across AWS environments.
• Oversee data governance including lineage, cataloging, and stewardship with tools such as AWS Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation, or third-party platforms.
• Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and lead a high-performing team of data architects and engineers.
• Work closely with stakeholders from engineering, data science, product, and compliance teams to deliver data initiatives.

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in data architecture with 3–5 years in a technical leadership role.
• Proven experience architecting AWS-based data lakes and analytics pipelines.
• Deep understanding of healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7) and working with FHIR JSON objects in large-scale systems.
• Expertise with embedding and vectorization models, semantic search, and managing vector storage solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon S3, Mountpoint for S3, and optimizing S3-based workloads for performance and cost.
• Strong background in data security, encryption, access control, and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST).

• This is an independent contractor position.
• Job Type: Full-time.
• Location: Remote.
• Hours: Available during standard US business hours (9am-5pm EST or 8:30am-4:30pm EST).

• Other duties not listed here may be assigned as necessary to ensure proper operations of the department.