Lead Technical Architect (Security - NFR)

About the Role

An exciting opportunity to join the Qatar Airways IT - Technology Services team as Lead Technical Architect (Security - NFR). This role will serve as the lead architect, guiding the strategic direction for secure and seamless application connectivity across the enterprise. Your leadership will ensure that organizational data and applications remain protected, all application integrations meet the highest standards of security and compliance and application NFR adhere to the standards set. By fostering a culture of proactive risk management and reliability, you will enable the organization to confidently deliver innovative solutions compliant with QR security standards.

Your duties would include:

• Lead the organization roadmap and own the best practices to be adopted by application teams to improvise the overall security posture of QR applications.

• Ensure application deployment and connectivity architecture is robust to ensure protection of QR data and compliance with QR policies.

• Ensure security of mobility solutions on personal / MDM devices is aligned with industry best practices and ensure consistent implementation across enterprise.

• Review and ensure all east-west traffic between applications is honoring the QR standards with respect to encryption and data protection.

• Establish organizational strategy for maintenance, management of security certificates used across the enterprise at different layers (apps, servers etc.), with minimal cost and operational overheads.

• Lead deep dive trouble shooting for any complex production issues around network, proxy, firewall, security incidents.

• Lead the organization strategy in handling and management of secrets stored within application servers.

• Ensure solutions proposed are optimized taking into consideration cost & operational overheads.

• Work closely with QR cyber governance team to refine the security guidelines on ongoing basis to ensure QR IT applications are aligned with the best industry practices.

• Establish and maintain an enterprise NFR framework covering availability, reliability, performance, scalability, observability, maintainability, auditing, and security.

• Define measurable NFR KPIs, SLAs, and SLOs across critical platforms (e.g., web, mobile, API, data, AI workloads).

• Assess and define reference architecture and NFR patterns for multi-cloud, hybrid, and distributed systems (e.g., Azure, GCP, Oracle, Adobe & OnPrem).

• Architect observability solutions using tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor.

• Define load, stress testing strategy, and ensure performance validations using tools such as k6, JMeter or Galing.

• Integrate NFR design principles with data privacy and encryption frameworks (BYOK, Fortanix, Azure Key Vault, TDE)

• Ensure systems meet compliance and audit requirements for data residency, logging, and access control.

• Validate secure integration practices for APIs, event streams, and third-party connectors (APIM, Apigee, MuleSoft, Solace, IBMMQ)

• Collaborate with testing and QA teams to define performance acceptance criteria.

• Establish performance baselines and capacity planning model for mission critical systems.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make.You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join our IT - Technology Services team. The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Honors in Engineering / Computer Science / Mathematics / Sciences or Equivalent.

• 10+ years in architecture or system design roles with 3+years focused on Application security & NFRs.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and cloud computing.

• Deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability engineering.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing stacks (Dynatrace, ELK, Prometheus, Open Telemetry)

• Familiarity with API gateways, CDN, and WAF technologies (Akamai, Azure Front Door, F5)

• Knowledge of security standards (OAuth, SAML, TLS, encryption-at-rest/in-transit).

• Hands-on experience in identifying and explaining the system bottlenecks to the application team for the resolution.

• Hands-on experience in identifying the application bottlenecks using Dynatrace / ELK APM / AppDynamics tool and explain the bottlenecks to the application team for the resolution.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills

• Certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/Google architecture expert.

• Exposure on enterprise sectors like aviation.

About Qatar Airways Group:

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.

How to Apply

If you are interested to submit your application and feel you are a good fit for this role, please complete our application form and upload your CV for our review and consideration.