Enterprise Architect

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Enterprise Architect – Smart Park

As an Enterprise Architect – Smart Park at JLL, you will define and govern the overall enterprise architecture for the smart park, ensuring that platform design, integrations, and applications deliver a seamless, world-class visitor experience while remaining operationally resilient and scalable within a government-led environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state enterprise and solution architecture for the smart park, covering digital platforms, super apps, integration layers, data ecosystems, and command-and-control environments
• Translate business, operational, and visitor experience requirements into coherent architectural designs and reference models
• Specify integration and interoperability standards, including API frameworks, middleware patterns, identity and access management, and data governance models
• Ensure seamless end-to-end user journeys across applications and platforms while maintaining security, resilience, and performance
• Develop application and platform roadmaps that align short-term deployments with long-term capability evolution and lifecycle management
• Review and validate solution designs, technical architectures, and vendor proposals against agreed architectural principles and standards
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, and regulatory requirements into all architectural decisions
• Establish and operate architectural governance processes, including design review boards, compliance checkpoints, and architecture decision records
• Communicate architectural principles, standards, and decisions clearly to business sponsors, design teams, delivery partners, and technology vendors
• Support alignment between the smart park architecture and wider smart city, enterprise IT, and government digital strategies
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and define mitigation strategies
• Facilitate technical workshops and architecture review sessions with multi-disciplinary stakeholders

Your Skills and Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles within large city, government, or complex corporate environments
• Proven experience designing and governing architectures for digital platforms, data ecosystems, and integrated application landscapes
• Strong understanding of integration architectures, APIs, middleware, identity management, and data governance
• Experience working in government-led or public-sector programmes with strong governance and compliance requirements
• Ability to balance user experience objectives with operational resilience, scalability, and security
• Experience developing architectural roadmaps and aligning multiple solutions to long-term capability frameworks
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear guidance
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, principles-based approach
• Experience establishing and operating architectural governance forums and review processes
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent is desirable

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent relevant experience)

Location

On-site – Riyadh, SAU

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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