Principal Architect, Business Capabilities First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB

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Posted 4 hrs ago

Experience

1 - 7 Years

Job Location

Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Education

Any Graduation

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Role specific responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve the enterprise business capability map and underlying taxonomy.
  • Maintain traceability between capabilities and key business architecture views: journeys, processes, value streams, services, and systems.
  • Conduct capability assessments, maturity reviews, and heatmaps to identify transformation opportunities.
  • Collaborate with strategy and transformation teams to map target capabilities and support gap analysis.
  • Align capability changes with business cases, investment proposals, and roadmaps.
  • Ensure capability information is available and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and planning tools.
  • Support the definition of target operating models from a capability-centric perspective.

Core competencies required:

  • Business Capability Modeling: Mastery of defining, decomposing, and structuring capabilities at various abstraction levels.
  • Strategic Alignment: Ability to align capability evolution with strategic goals, regulatory changes, and business priorities.
  • Domain knowledge: Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following domains: Wealth Management, Card Services, Trade and Supply Chain Finance, Credit, Custody, or Investment Banking (IB) etc.
  • Hands-on: Experience in designing, building and governing enterprise-scale applications using modern application development frameworks in the cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP)
  • Governance & Reuse: Experience in managing capability taxonomies, promoting reuse, and reducing duplication across domains.
  • Portfolio & Roadmap Integration: Skilled in mapping capabilities to business initiatives, programs, and technology enablers.
  • Architecture Tooling: Proficiency in modeling tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, BizzDesign, Sparx EA) and capability heatmaps.
  • Cross-Domain Collaboration: Strong engagement across business, enterprise architecture, and transformation teams.

General functional responsibilities:

  • Represent capability views in architecture governance forums and strategic planning sessions.
  • Align with application, data, and solution architects to ensure consistent capability mapping and reuse.
  • Promote cross-functional understanding and use of capabilities for solution design, sourcing decisions, and platform planning.
  • Track and report capability maturity, coverage, duplication, and business alignment KPIs.
  • Mentor architects and business analysts on capability modeling, usage, and evolution practices.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture practices, with a focus on business modeling discipline

Company Industry

  • Banking
  • Financial Services
  • Broking

Department / Functional Area

  • IT Software

Keywords

  • Principal Architect
  • Business Capabilities

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First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide top-tier financial solutions to our clients.

Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to "Grow Stronger." We embrace the needs of our customers across the globe with a sense of responsibility and confidence driven by extensive expertise that can only be delivered by an ambitious world-class organization

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