Sr Enterprise Architect – Majid Al Futtaim

This Senior Enterprise Architect role sits within MAF Global Solutions, the technology arm supporting Majid Al Futtaim’s businesses across malls, retail, and leisure and entertainment. The role is a senior technical leadership position responsible for shaping technology strategy and enterprise architecture across a genuinely large and diverse business, not a single product or application.

The work involves defining architecture standards and roadmaps that different business units and technology teams align to, evaluating major technology investments and platform decisions against long-term strategic fit rather than short-term convenience, and acting as a senior technical voice in conversations that bridge business strategy and technology capability. Enterprise architecture at this level requires seeing across silos, understanding how decisions in one part of the business affect technology dependencies elsewhere, and building consensus among stakeholders who do not always agree on priorities.

It suits a senior technology professional with substantial experience in enterprise or solution architecture, technology strategy, and business architecture development, ideally within a large, multi-business-unit organization. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills matter as much as technical depth, since this role spends significant time influencing decisions rather than writing code directly.

For an experienced architect who wants influence over technology direction at a genuinely group-wide scale, rather than a single product team, this is a substantial senior technology leadership opportunity.

Enterprise architecture decisions made at this level have a compounding effect across Majid Al Futtaim's technology landscape, since a well-designed architecture standard or platform decision reduces duplicated investment, technical debt, and integration friction across the group's malls, retail, and entertainment businesses for years afterward. A Senior Enterprise Architect's ability to see across business unit silos and design for the whole rather than a single team's immediate need directly protects the group from the kind of fragmented, inconsistent technology landscape that becomes expensive and slow to change later. Because major technology investments carry real capital cost and multi-year commitment, getting the architecture strategy right at this senior level has a direct financial impact, avoiding costly rework or vendor lock-in that a shorter-term view might miss. This role also matters to how quickly the group's various businesses can adopt new technology capabilities, since a strong architecture foundation makes future innovation faster and cheaper to deliver, while a weak one slows every subsequent technology initiative down.

A Senior Enterprise Architect role at this scale is one of the more senior and broadly scoped technology positions available in the region, giving someone genuine influence over technology direction across an entire diversified group rather than a single product or business unit. The experience of aligning architecture strategy across malls, retail, and entertainment businesses builds a rare breadth of exposure to different technology domains and business models within a single role, which is highly valued for anyone aiming toward CTO, Chief Architect, or other senior technology executive positions later in a career. Majid Al Futtaim's scale and regional prominence also mean this role carries significant weight on a CV within the UAE and broader Gulf technology leadership community. The stakeholder management and influencing skills this role demands, building consensus among senior business and technology leaders who do not always agree, are genuinely difficult to develop and are highly transferable to any future executive technology role. For an architect who has already built strong technical depth earlier in their career and is looking to step into genuine enterprise-level strategic influence, this role offers precisely that scope, combined with the stability and prominence of one of the region's most established corporate groups.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; a relevant master’s degree is an advantage
• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or technology strategy roles
• Strong track record of business and enterprise architecture development within a large, complex organization
• Deep understanding of technology strategy and its alignment with broader business objectives
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Strong communication skills for translating technical architecture into business-relevant language
• Experience working across multiple business units or a diversified corporate structure is an advantage