
Senior Director - Digital Architecture
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This role is the enterpriseāwide technical authority responsible for designing and governing Qiddiyaās Digital architecture, ensuring that the solutions built are scalable, secure, reusable, costāefficient, and aligned to the strategic roadmap. This role leads the Architecture Centre of Excellence (CoE) within Digital & CE, with matrix leadership responsibility for Solution Architects across products, platforms, CRM, MarTech, commerce, and inādestination systems.
This position plays a critical role in shaping Qiddiyaās digital ecosystem ā including eāCommerce, Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM & AEP), identity, payments, and omnichannel experience ā ensuring consistency, reliability, and strong governance.
Key Responsibilities
⢠Define and govern the enterprise Digital architecture aligned to Qiddiyaās strategic technology direction.
⢠Lead the Architecture CoE, developing capability and ensuring consistency across matrixed Solution Architects.
⢠Act as Design Authority to approve solution architectures, platform changes and technical risk mitigation plans.
⢠Enforce architectural standards, security, integration guardrails and scalability objectives.
⢠Drive platform evolution for eāCommerce, Adobe AEP/AEM, CRM, identity, payments, and shared platform services.
⢠Lead adoption of APIāfirst, modular, cloudānative and eventādriven architecture patterns.
⢠Manage architectural oversight of SI and vendor deliveries ensuring compliance to approved designs.
⢠Balance pragmatic delivery needs with longāterm efficiency, technical quality and reuse.
⢠Partner closely with Product, DevSecOps, CRM, MarTech, and Digital Platforms leadership teams to align dependency and release planning.
⢠Evaluate emerging technologies including AIādriven automation and advanced customer engagement capabilities. Requirements
⢠12+ years experience in enterprise or digital architecture roles in largeāscale consumer or destination environments.
⢠Deep expertise in Adobe AEM SaaS, Adobe Experience Platform (AEP/CDP, Target, Campaign).
⢠Strong eāCommerce architecture experience including payment and identity services.
⢠Handsāon technical credibility with modern integration, API security and cloud engineering.
⢠Experience managing matrixed teams and coaching technical talent.
⢠Strong communication and executive presentation capabilities with ability to influence without authority.
⢠SI/vendor oversight experience ensuring design governance and delivery quality.
⢠Bachelor degree in MIS, or any related field.Benefits
Offering a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Requirements
- ā¢12+ years in enterprise/digital architecture
- ā¢Deep expertise in Adobe AEM SaaS, Adobe Experience Platform
- ā¢Strong e-Commerce architecture experience
- ā¢Hands-on technical credibility in modern integration, API security, cloud engineering
- ā¢Experience managing matrixed teams
- ā¢Strong communication and executive presentation skills
- ā¢SI/vendor oversight experience
- ā¢Bachelor degree in MIS or related field
Nice to Have
- ā¢Evaluate emerging technologies including AI-driven automation
Responsibilities
- ā¢Define and govern enterprise Digital architecture
- ā¢Lead Architecture CoE
- ā¢Approve solution architectures and technical risk mitigation plans
- ā¢Enforce architectural standards, security, integration guardrails
- ā¢Drive platform evolution for e-Commerce, Adobe AEP/AEM, CRM, identity, payments
- ā¢Lead adoption of API-first, modular, cloud-native patterns
- ā¢Manage architectural oversight of SI and vendor deliveries
- ā¢Partner with Product, DevSecOps, CRM, MarTech, and Digital Platforms leadership
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