Job Description

Company Description
Are you ready to join us on our exciting transformation journey at the largest bank in the UAE? This is an opportunity to make a real impact on our customers, employees, shareholders, and communities, as part of the FAB team. We're committed to our grow stronger movement, and as a member of our team, you'll have access to everything you need to advance your career and make a meaningful contribution to our shared success. If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out and make a difference, now is the time to join us. Let's work together to achieve great things.

Overall objectives

• Define and govern the enterprise infrastructure and cloud architecture to ensure scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.

• Enable secure, compliant, and high-performing hybrid cloud environments that support business agility and innovation.

• Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms, network, and compute through cloud-native and automation-first strategies.

• Align infrastructure architecture with enterprise standards, security frameworks, and operational requirements.

• Foster a culture of architectural discipline, reusability, and continuous improvement across infrastructure domains.

Job scope
Role specific responsibilities

• Define and maintain the infrastructure and cloud architecture blueprint.

• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.

• Govern cloud adoption, migration, and optimization strategies across domains.

• Collaborate with platform, security, and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment.

• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance engineering initiatives.

General functional responsibilities

• Define and maintain the infrastructure and cloud architecture blueprint.

• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.

• Govern cloud adoption, migration, and optimization strategies across domains.

• Collaborate with platform, security, and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment.

• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance engineering initiatives.

Qualifications
Core competencies required

• Infrastructure Architecture Expertise - Deep knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and data center design.
• Cloud Architecture Mastery - Experience with public, private, and hybrid cloud models (Azure, AWS, OCI), including IaaS, PaaS, and container platforms.
• Security & Compliance Awareness - Understanding of cloud security frameworks, regulatory requirements, and operational risk.
• Automation & DevOps - Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
• Enterprise Integration - Ability to align infrastructure with application, data, and business architecture domains.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Strong collaboration with engineering, operations, security, and architecture governance teams.
• Overall 15 years on banking technology experience is desirable