Solution Architect (with Business Analysis Expertise)

About the role

BlackStone eIT is looking for a Solution Architect in Dubai who turns business requirements into solution designs and defends them in front of development, infrastructure and integration teams. The role owns the technical direction of the solution and is not a documentation-only position: you will question vendor and internal proposals, find weaknesses before delivery starts and call out designs that do not meet requirements, security standards or budget.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution design across application, data, integration, security and infrastructure layers, and produce architecture documents, data flow and sequence diagrams, and integration and API specifications.
• Select architecture patterns and justify the choices, including trade-offs, cost and risk.
• Review designs from developers, vendors and infrastructure teams on feasibility, scalability, performance, security and supportability; review integration approaches (REST, event-driven, batch, file-based) against failure scenarios, volumes and dependencies.
• Validate sizing, environment and hosting assumptions (Dev/SIT/UAT/Production, cloud and on-premises) with infrastructure teams, and identify technical debt, bottlenecks and single points of failure.
• Check that delivered work matches the approved design and raise deviations early.
• Elicit and document business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements (BRD, FRD, TRD, user stories), trace each requirement to a design element and a test case, run workshops with business owners and support impact assessments when requirements change.
• Act as technical point of contact between business owners, delivery teams and vendors, review vendor proposals against scope and requirements, and advise project and delivery managers on technical risks and escalations.

Required profile

• 8+ years in enterprise IT, with at least 4 years as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect or equivalent.
• Hands-on delivery of API-led and system integration projects in enterprise or government environments.
• Practical background in business analysis, including requirements engineering and stakeholder management.
• Arabic: native or fluent; English: fluent, business and technical.
• Certifications: TOGAF Foundation mandatory; AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or above) or Azure AZ-305 mandatory; CBAP or PMI-PBA preferred.

Required skills

• API design: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON/XML, webhooks, event-driven patterns.
• Integration platforms and API gateways, authentication and authorisation (OAuth2, SSO, UAE PASS or similar).
• Cloud and infrastructure fundamentals: networking, environments, availability, DR and security architecture.
• Relational databases, SQL and data mapping.
• UML, BPMN 2.0 and sequence diagrams (Visio, Lucidchart or Enterprise Architect).
• Agile delivery in Jira or Azure DevOps.