First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

Principal Architect, Business Capabilities

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Job Description

Overall objectivOesOverall Objectives Define, model, and manage the enterprise’s business capability landscape to support strategic alignment and transformation. Drive technical excellence in the architectural design of business solutions by leveraging industry best practices, modern architectural patterns (such as microservices, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures), and advanced technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise systems. Serve as the authoritative owner of the capability map and its relationships to processes, journeys, services, and technology. Ensure capability-centric thinking is embedded across architecture, planning, and delivery practices. Act as a key integrator between strategy, business design, and IT execution, fostering traceability and reuse. Enable investment planning, portfolio rationalization, and operating model design through structured capability management.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.

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