Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Standards

About the role

Omantel's Digital & Technology Division is looking for a Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Standards (Grade L2) based in Muscat. The role leads enterprise architecture and standards governance, defining, enforcing and evolving the target state digital and technology architecture across applications, platforms, data, integration and security, ensuring scalability, compliance, resilience and long-term platform integrity.

Key responsibilities

• Own and govern the target-state enterprise architecture blueprint and approve solution architectures before build and implementation.
• Define and enforce architecture standards, design principles and integration frameworks, and adjudicate architectural deviations and exceptions.
• Review and oversee architecture across applications, platforms, APIs and data, validating reusable, modular, API-first patterns and cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments.
• Prevent vendor lock-in and structural dependency risks, and safeguard long-term platform coherence and interoperability.
• Chair architecture review boards and governance councils, establish approval workflows for major technology decisions and maintain traceability between strategy and design.
• Ensure designs embed operational stability, service continuity, cybersecurity, regulatory and audit compliance, and risk exposure from structural or design weaknesses.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and modernization opportunities, guide evolution toward scalable digital platform ecosystems, and support the GM Portfolio & Governance in sequencing initiatives against engineering capacity.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
• 8 years' experience, including 3 years in a management position.
• Leadership competencies such as assertiveness, conflict resolution, leading change, visioning and alignment, ethics and compliance, and timely decision-making.