Enterprise Architecture

About the Role

Jodayn is seeking an Enterprise Architecture professional to lead enterprise-wide architecture engagements. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and focuses on ensuring strong alignment between organizational strategy, business capabilities, digital transformation initiatives, information, applications, technology, security, and investment priorities. The role involves defining current-state and target-state architectures, guiding transformation roadmaps, establishing architecture governance, and providing senior-level advisory support to stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of Enterprise Architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Assess the current enterprise landscape and develop clear current-state, target-state, transition, and gap-analysis views across various domains including Business, Data, Application, Technology, Experience, AI, and Cybersecurity.
• Translate organizational strategy and transformation objectives into architecture capabilities, initiatives, transition states, and investment priorities.
• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, enterprise-wide architecture models, dependency views, and transformation roadmaps.
• Establish and operate architecture governance mechanisms, including architecture review boards, decision records, compliance reviews, and design assurance processes.
• Review programs, projects, and solution proposals to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, standards, target architectures, and strategic direction.
• Identify architectural gaps, duplication, technology risks, dependencies, obsolescence, and opportunities for consolidation, modernization, standardization, and reuse.
• Provide architecture leadership and advisory support to executives, business owners, digital transformation teams, technology functions, program managers, and vendors.
• Guide and mentor solution architects and domain architects, ensuring consistency across architecture deliverables.
• Support portfolio planning, business cases, RFPs, vendor evaluations, technology selections, and transformation programs from an architecture perspective.

Qualifications and Experience

• Typically 10-15+ years of experience in technology, architecture, consulting, digital transformation, or related disciplines.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture or a senior architecture leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale architecture assessments, target-state design, transformation roadmaps, and governance activities.
• Experience working across multiple architecture domains, including Business, Data, Applications, Technology, Integration, Cloud, and Security.
• Experience engaging senior executives and translating complex architecture topics into clear business-oriented recommendations.
• Experience in large enterprises, government entities, regulated environments, or major transformation programs is desirable.

Required Knowledge and Competencies

• Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture concepts, methods, governance, and operating models.
• Advanced knowledge of TOGAF and practical application of architecture development methods.
• Strong knowledge of ArchiMate and enterprise modeling concepts; familiarity with UML and BPMN is beneficial.
• Ability to develop architecture assessments, heatmaps, capability models, transition architectures, roadmaps, principles, standards, and governance artifacts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and decision-support skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce executive-quality architecture documents and presentations.

Preferred Certifications and Tools

• TOGAF® certification and ArchiMate® certification are preferred.
• Relevant cloud, security, data, governance, or architecture certifications are an advantage.
• PMP®, ITIL®, COBIT®, SABSA®, CDMP®, or equivalent certifications are considered beneficial.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture and modeling platforms such as Bizzdesign, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, Sparx Enterprise Architect, or MEGA HOPEX is preferred.

Candidate Profile

We are seeking a senior architecture professional who combines strategic thinking with strong hands-on architecture capability. The ideal candidate can work confidently with executives and technical teams, structure complex enterprise problems, develop high-quality architecture deliverables, and provide practical guidance that connects strategy with execution.