Application Architect

About the Role

Jodayn is seeking an Application Architect to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves defining, assessing, and evolving the enterprise application architecture to ensure alignment with business capabilities, digital transformation priorities, integration needs, security requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

Role Overview

The Application Architect focuses on current-state application assessment, target-state design, application portfolio optimization, modernization, rationalization, and interoperability. The position ensures that the application landscape supports the enterprise technology direction and contributes to strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise application architecture in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Assess the current application landscape, including business applications, platforms, interfaces, dependencies, lifecycle status, and functional coverage.
• Define target-state application architecture and transition roadmaps supporting business and digital transformation initiatives.
• Map applications to business capabilities, services, processes, data domains, and technology platforms.
• Identify duplication, functional overlap, application gaps, technical debt, and rationalization opportunities across the application portfolio.
• Support application modernization, replacement, consolidation, retirement, and cloud migration initiatives.
• Define application architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Design application interaction models, cooperation views, dependency maps, and integration touchpoints.
• Collaborate with solution, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, and security architects to ensure coherent end-to-end architectures.
• Assess commercial-off-the-shelf, SaaS, custom-developed, and platform-based solutions from an architecture perspective.
• Evaluate application scalability, maintainability, interoperability, resilience, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support Application Portfolio Management and technology lifecycle management activities.
• Provide architecture guidance for APIs, microservices, modular applications, event-driven solutions, and modern application platforms.
• Participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Support RFP development, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and application selection processes.
• Identify application architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and remediation actions.
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to ensure application architecture decisions are practical, traceable, and aligned with business needs.

Qualifications and Experience

• 8-10 years of experience in application architecture or a related field.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to significant enterprise application initiatives within Jodayn.