Principal Solutions Architect-Cyber Security Operations Centre

Job Purpose
At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Our Architecture team are looking for an experience and qualified candidate to fill the role of Principal Solutions Architect-CSOC. The successful candidate will be expected to design, develop and govern the solution architecture of the Group in alignment with corporate business and IT strategies, ensuring an appropriate balance between functional, service quality, and systems management requirements. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes.
What You Will Do
Specific to Cyber Security Operations Centre::

• Demonstrate expertise in overseeing the architecture for the cybersecurity operations technology landscape, ensuring an integrated and cohesive environment, and leading the development of strategic design blueprints and reference architectures.
• Exhibit skills in designing and implementing architectural processes for efficient threat detection, assessment, and response, and in translating complex technical requirements into clear, actionable design documents.
• Show proficiency in architecting scalable systems for real-time data analysis and maintaining frameworks for log aggregation and normalization, to support advanced threat detection and response.
• Exhibit experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cybersecurity architecture with business goals, and in leading initiatives for the integration of various security tools and technologies.
• Demonstrate leadership in evaluating new security technologies and processes, conducting architectural reviews, and proposing enhancements for system scalability and performance.
• Experience in designing and implementing large-scale data lakes, preferably in a cybersecurity context.
• Strong experience with SIEM, Open XDR, and Security Data Lake technologies.
• Expertise in breach and attack simulation, threat intelligence platforms, and network traffic analysis.
  

You Will Also Have Experience To

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  Contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience.
• Lead the development of new corporate IT standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
• Lead the development and documentation of architectural patterns and solution designs for use in solutions.
• Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.
• Track technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
• Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns.
• Lead solution design reviews and technical design reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
• From time to time, lead a strategic incubator project that will take a strategically significant new or innovative technology or architectural approach. This involves assembling and managing the development team, taking full responsibility for the solution architecture, leading the design and development of the solution, and taking overall responsibility for the management of the project, its budget, timescales and dependencies. Such projects will create the foundations for corporate strategic platforms on which our future critical business systems will depend.
• Significant experience of major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed.
• Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of STE, Principal Solution Architect resources as required, and engage in, and lead, a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts and business managers consisting of at least 20 individuals.
• Own, manage and maintain the architecture roadmap of complex/large Projects, Products, Environments or Platforms.
  

Qualifications & Experience
What you will bring:
Qualifications.
Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
Experience
8+ Years Information Technology or Other
Knowledge And Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Ideally higher level business-related qualification, such as MBA
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale data lakes, preferably in a cybersecurity context. Strong experience with SIEM, Open XDR, and Security Data Lake technologies. Expertise in breach and attack simulation, threat intelligence platforms, and network traffic analysis.
• Experience in the development of distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multi-user systems.
• Experience in detailed business system architecture and design
• Preferably technical leadership and architecture experience.
• Understanding of solution technologies such as Java/TPF/Oracle/BI/DW/ERP and capability frameworks such as CMMI.
• Understanding of TOGAF, Zachman, and other Enterprise Architecture frameworks and of industry-standard development methods (e.g. RUP, SCRUM)
• Experience with ITIL Framework and of industry-standard project management methods (e.g. PMBOK)
  

Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers