Senior Director - Enterprise Architecture

Qiddiya Investment Company

This role is the enterprise wide technical authority responsible for designing and governing Qiddiya s Digital architecture, ensuring that the solutions built are scalable, secure, reusable, cost efficient, and aligned to the strategic roadmap.

This role leads the Architecture Centre of Excellence (CoE) within Digital & CE, with matrix leadership responsibility for Solution Architects across products, platforms, CRM, MarTech, commerce, and in destination systems.

This position plays a critical role in shaping Qiddiya s digital ecosystem including e Commerce, Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM & AEP), identity, payments, and omnichannel experience ensuring consistency, reliability, and strong governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern the enterprise Digital architecture aligned to Qiddiya s strategic technology direction.
• Lead the Architecture CoE, developing capability and ensuring consistency across matrixed Solution Architects.
• Act as Design Authority to approve solution architectures, platform changes and technical risk mitigation plans.
• Enforce architectural standards, security, integration guardrails and scalability objectives.
• Drive platform evolution for e Commerce, Adobe AEP/AEM, CRM, identity, payments, and shared platform services.
• Lead adoption of API first, modular, cloud native and event driven architecture patterns.
• Manage architectural oversight of SI and vendor deliveries ensuring compliance to approved designs.
• Balance pragmatic delivery needs with long term efficiency, technical quality and reuse.
• Partner closely with Product, DevSecOps, CRM, MarTech, and Digital Platforms leadership teams to align dependency and release planning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI driven automation and advanced customer engagement capabilities.

Skills

• Deep expertise in Adobe AEM SaaS, Adobe Experience Platform (AEP/CDP, Target, Campaign).
• Strong e Commerce architecture experience including payment and identity services.
• Hands on technical credibility with modern integration, API security and cloud engineering.
• Experience managing matrixed teams and coaching technical talent.
• Strong communication and executive presentation capabilities with ability to influence without authority.
• SI/vendor oversight experience ensuring design governance and delivery quality.