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Senior Enterprise Architect (Four Years Contract)

Job Id
PDO1909
Start Date
Apr 13, 2025
End Date
Apr 22, 2025
Compnay Name
Petroleum Development Oman
Discipline
IT
No of Position
1
Position Type
Temporary
Job Type
Not Specified
Nationality Required
Education & Experience Required
Education
Experience

Job Description

About the Company

Petroleum Development Oman is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply.

Purpose of the Job

The Senior Enterprise Architect leads the Enterprise Architecture, standards and strategy for the new IT foundations to enable PDO to achieve its business goals by linking technology and services to business strategy and objectives.

 

Drives modernization and decoupling of the PDO’s existing architecture and drives the architecture transformation towards the product-platform operating model.

 

Drives technical and architectural decisions for the organization, valuing simplicity and willing to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve agile design. A good candidate is keen to get hands-on, actively helping the teams solve the biggest problems.

Education & Experience

  •  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • At least 10  years of experience in developing and implementing IT systems.
  • Must have experience in the product and platform operating models.
  • Must have experience in Digital Product and Platform
  • Must have good experience in tender contractual projects
  • Must have experience in managing a team of 10 people and above vendors/contractors
  • Possess good understanding of SDLC cycle
  • Candidates who is a PMP certified holder will have an added advantage.
  • Experience driving results and clarifying priorities in a busy and/or political environment valuabl.
  • Strong communication skills in order to effectively communicate with and make strategic recommendations to Sr.
  • Experience in any formal architecture framework such as TOGAF, IFW, CBM, BIAN
  • Expert at discovering customer business & technical requirement.

Main Responsibilities

  • Design and own the target state enterprise architecture for the technology foundations and the enterprise roadmap for the transition.
  • Prepares important strategic tradeoff-decisions and gains organizational commitment.
  • Set guiding principles, standards, and architectural patterns for the development of the system landscape.
  • Develop and maintain policies, processes, metrics, and governance designed to ensure solutions are stable, scalable, cost-efficient, and support effective delivery.
  • Mentors and coaches Architecture chapter in latest EA best.
  • practices.
  • Communicate, champion, and promote the understanding of trends and emerging technologies across PDO.
  • Represent Enterprise Architecture in Domain, Domain Area and PDO-wide meetings & committees.
  • Mentor and coach the technical product owners and engineers, specifically with regards to latest technologies.
  • Hands-on engage with product & platform teams to help develop the solution and solve all surfacing problems at hand, identify and remove technical impediments.
     

Skills Required

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