AVP – Enterprise Architect
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Enterprise Architect shaping MashreqBank’s enterprise technology architecture. Modernizing cloud, infrastructure, data, AI, security, and platform ecosystems for digital transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the enterprise target architecture across infrastructure, platform, integration, data, and AI
- Establish architecture guardrails for standardization, data quality, AI readiness, platform automation, integration, and security by design
- Provide enterprise-level architectural direction for platforms and advanced capabilities
- Drive modernization initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments
- Collaborate with data architects and engineers on highly available, resilient, governed, and cost-optimized data platforms
- Ensure technology decisions support regulatory compliance for data governance, security, privacy, and data residency
- Lead the evolution of enterprise infrastructure for scalability, performance, AI compute, storage modernization, network reliability, and cybersecurity
- Oversee the lifecycle of virtualization, container platforms, cloud services, storage, and enterprise databases
- Guide selection and implementation of infrastructure and cloud technologies supporting AI acceleration, distributed computing, and modern data workloads
- Develop capacity planning, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies
- Translate business outcomes into capable, scalable, and future-proof technology architectures
- Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and align with enterprise architecture roadmaps
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, engineers, and project teams
- Maintain roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, and guidelines
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 15+ years in infrastructure, data, or platform engineering/operations, with 5–7 years in architecture leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience defining enterprise-wide infrastructure, platform, data and AI architectures in complex hybrid environments
- Expertise in at least 2 domains: enterprise data platforms; AI/ML platforms; integration platforms; security and identity; cloud architecture; container platforms; compute, storage, networking, security, and virtualization technologies
- Familiarity with AIX, RHEL, Oracle Database, Dell EMC Storage, Pure Storage, Data Domain, Cisco, Palo Alto, and Checkpoint
- Experience with DevOps, Platform Engineering, and observability tools
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins
- Strong understanding of security architecture, cloud governance, and regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to lead large-scale platform, data, or infrastructure transformation initiatives
- Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and cross-functional leadership skills
- Experience with ITIL, Agile, and modern delivery methodologies



















