Solutions Architect CDP/Cloudera

Job Title: Solutions Architect Location: Abu Dhabi Contract Duration: 1 year Role Purpose: Translate enterprise architecture policies and organizational standards into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, processes, and reusable artefacts, while providing end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors. Key Responsibilities: Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into clear CDP technical standards and guidelines. Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes, and quality-gate criteria. Create and maintain architecture governance artefacts, including HLD and LLD templates, review checklists, decision records, risk registers, compliance assessments, and approval workflows. Provide hands-on architecture support during ideation, planning, sourcing, design, and delivery. Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud, and non-functional requirements. Review HLDs, LLDs, integration designs, and other technical artefacts prepared by delivery teams. Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and required remediation. Promote reuse of approved shared services, components, and design patterns. Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions. 8+ years of relevant technology experience, including solution architecture. Strong hands-on experience in developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures, and governance artefacts.