Enterprise Architect – Smart Park

Role Overview

Enterprise Architect – Smart Park at JLL, based on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. You will define and govern the overall enterprise architecture for the smart park, ensuring that platform design, integrations, and applications deliver a seamless, world-class visitor experience while remaining operationally resilient and scalable within a government-led environment.

Company Overview

JLL is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. The organization combines world-class services, advisory, and technology for clients and is committed to shaping the future of real estate for a better world.

Role Purpose

To establish and maintain a coherent, governance-led enterprise architecture for a smart park that integrates digital platforms, applications, data ecosystems, and command-and-control environments in alignment with business, operational, visitor experience, and government digital strategy requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Definition and Design

• Define and maintain the target-state enterprise and solution architecture for the smart park, covering digital platforms, super apps, integration layers, data ecosystems, and command-and-control environments.
• Translate business, operational, and visitor experience requirements into coherent architectural designs and reference models.
• Specify integration and interoperability standards, including API frameworks, middleware patterns, identity and access management, and data governance models.

User Experience and Integration

• Ensure seamless end-to-end user journeys across applications and platforms while maintaining security, resilience, and performance.
• Develop application and platform roadmaps that align short-term deployments with long-term capability evolution and lifecycle management.

Design Validation and Standards

• Review and validate solution designs, technical architectures, and vendor proposals against agreed architectural principles and standards.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, and regulatory requirements into all architectural decisions.

Governance and Compliance

• Establish and operate architectural governance processes, including design review boards, compliance checkpoints, and architecture decision records.
• Support alignment between the smart park architecture and wider smart city, enterprise IT, and government digital strategies.

Risk and Dependency Management

• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and define mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate architectural principles, standards, and decisions clearly to business sponsors, design teams, delivery partners, and technology vendors.
• Facilitate technical workshops and architecture review sessions with multi-disciplinary stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles within large city, government, or complex corporate environments.
• Proven experience designing and governing architectures for digital platforms, data ecosystems, and integrated application landscapes.
• Experience working in government-led or public-sector programmes with strong governance and compliance requirements.
• Experience developing architectural roadmaps and aligning multiple solutions to long-term capability frameworks.
• Experience establishing and operating architectural governance forums and review processes.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent is desirable.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of integration architectures, APIs, middleware, identity management, and data governance.
• Ability to balance user experience objectives with operational resilience, scalability, and security.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear guidance.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, principles-based approach.

Additional Information

• Location: On-site, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• JLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.