Sr Enterprise Architect – Majid Al Futtaim

This Senior Enterprise Architect role sits within Majid Al Futtaim Global Solutions, supporting technology strategy and enterprise architecture across the group’s diverse retail, entertainment, and lifestyle businesses. It’s a senior technical leadership role focused on how technology systems fit together at a group-wide level, not day-to-day software development.

The work involves defining and maintaining enterprise architecture standards and roadmaps, evaluating how new technology initiatives align with the group’s broader technology strategy, working closely with business and IT leadership to ensure technology investments support long-term business goals, and providing architectural guidance across multiple concurrent projects and business units. Because Majid Al Futtaim spans very different business lines — from shopping malls to cinemas to retail brands — this role requires connecting technology decisions across a genuinely diverse set of business contexts.

This role suits an experienced enterprise architect or senior technology leader with a strong track record of enterprise-level architecture and technology strategy work, comfortable operating at both a strategic and sufficiently technical level to guide real implementation decisions. Strong stakeholder influence and communication skills matter as much as deep technical expertise, since much of the role’s value comes from aligning diverse business and technology stakeholders around a coherent architectural direction.

Enterprise architecture decisions made at this level shape how efficiently and coherently Majid Al Futtaim's technology systems support its very different business lines, from retail operations to entertainment venues to lifestyle brands. A Senior Enterprise Architect who gets this right reduces costly duplication and integration problems that arise when different business units make disconnected technology decisions independently, saving significant cost and complexity over time. Because major technology investments across a group this size carry substantial capital and risk implications, sound architectural guidance at this level directly protects the return on those investments and reduces the risk of expensive rework or failed initiatives. Strong enterprise architecture leadership also enables the group to move faster on new digital initiatives, since a coherent underlying technology foundation makes it easier to launch new capabilities across multiple business units rather than rebuilding foundational systems repeatedly. Given the scale and diversity of Majid Al Futtaim's operations, the quality of enterprise-level technology decisions has a genuinely material effect on the group's overall operational efficiency and digital competitiveness.

A Senior Enterprise Architect role at a large, diversified conglomerate like Majid Al Futtaim offers exposure to an unusually broad range of business and technology contexts within a single organization, from retail and e-commerce systems to entertainment and hospitality technology. You'll build genuine, senior-level enterprise architecture experience — technology strategy, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, and architecture governance at scale — that's highly valued and well-compensated across large enterprises globally. Working across such a diverse business portfolio also builds a rare breadth of technology and business understanding that narrower, single-industry enterprise architecture roles don't offer. Because this role sits close to senior business and IT leadership, it also builds strong executive-level communication and influencing skills that are essential for progressing into CTO, CIO, or group-level technology leadership roles later in a career. For experienced technology leaders, this kind of senior architecture role at a major regional conglomerate is a strong, resume-defining step toward the most senior technology leadership positions. Because relatively few professionals get to practice enterprise architecture across such a genuinely varied set of business models within one organization, this breadth of experience is a distinctive credential that stands out clearly when competing for the most senior group-level technology leadership roles later in a career.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or senior IT leadership roles
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Experience aligning technology roadmaps with business strategy across multiple business units
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills at senior leadership level
• Experience working across diverse, complex organizational technology landscapes
• Relevant enterprise architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF) is an advantage