Enterprise Architect (Damascus, Syria)

About the role

We are looking for a senior Enterprise Architect to lead the design and governance of a large‑scale enterprise business application platform in Damascus, Syria. The role is full‑time, on‑site, and requires strong alignment between business goals, technology standards, and operational resilience.

Key responsibilities

• Own and maintain the end‑to‑end enterprise architecture blueprint for the platform.
• Define target architecture across business, application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure layers.
• Lead architecture governance, technical design reviews, and decision‑making processes.
• Ensure the platform meets enterprise‑scale requirements such as high availability, performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Review and guide HLDs, LLDs, integration designs, data migration approaches, deployment models, and operational readiness plans.
• Support integration with ERP, IAM, telecom/network systems, and enterprise integration layers.
• Guide legacy system transition, migration, coexistence, and decommissioning strategies.
• Identify architecture risks, technical debt, scalability gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with business owners, security, infrastructure, data, application teams, vendors, and architecture review boards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, Telecommunications or a related field.
• 10–15 years of experience in enterprise architecture, telecom infrastructure, or large‑scale platform delivery.
• Strong understanding of telecom operations, governance, and service‑delivery environments.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise platforms such as Odoo, ERPNext, Oracle EBS/Fusion, SAP, ServiceNow or Maximo.
• Experience working with architecture review boards in regulated enterprise settings.
• Experience on large transformation programmes in the Middle East or Asia is a plus.

Required skills

• TOGAF
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• ITIL, PMP or PRINCE2
• Enterprise platforms: Odoo, ERPNext, Oracle EBS, Oracle Fusion, SAP, ServiceNow, Maximo