Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solutions ArchitectRiyadh, Saudi ArabiaResponsibilitiesAct as the single point of contact (SPOC) as solution lead, engaging stakeholders, understanding requirements, managing demand and delivering economically assessed solutions in a timely manner.Develop and maintain strong customer (internal) relations ensuring a "Customers for Life" relationship with a "Go Extra Mile" attitude.Analyze enterprise business context, trends, and business strategy, and change requirements in other Enterprise Architecture viewpoints to derive the future state for the specified domain area, considering the entire application portfolio and defining a roadmap for optimization.Define high‑level migration plans to address gaps between current and future state of business capabilities, technology, application, and data across the enterprise, aligned with IT budgeting and capital planning processes to assess viability of initiatives.Lead analysis of current business capabilities and technology environment to detect deficiencies, recommend solutions, and assess technology industry and market trends for potential impact on the enterprise.Provide leadership and guidance to solution team to assess various solution options innovatively and to recommend the most economical solution for the given business problem.Guide governance activities to ensure architecture compliance.Oversee or consult on technology implementation and modification activities (e.g., projects), and advise on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure and identify when EA modification is needed.Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of business applications, hardware (servers, storage, network), and software technologies and product standards, and design standard configurations.Conduct market research and provide high‑level capabilities, solution approach (Build/Buy decision), costing, and analysis through RFI/RFP/RFQ processes.Conduct various assessments such as solutions options, normalization of functions & features, vendor support, etc., to articulate key functional, technical, IT operational aspects among solution providers.Deliver solution design and costing for new initiatives, enabling stakeholders to prepare a viable business case for funding.Identify organizational, skills, processes, structures, culture, and financial impacts of the EA.Document necessary EA design and analysis work, including post‑mortem documentation and metric collection.Conduct technical peer review.RequirementsUniversity degree preferably in Computer Engineering/Information Technology related discipline.Master’s degree considered a plus but not mandatory.Desired skills include TOGAF, Zachman, or other framework architectural modeling techniques.Experience using architecture/modelling tools such as Erwin, Visio, SAP PowerDesigner, Mega, ABACUS, Avolution, Aris, etc.Minimum six years of architecture, solution design, and implementation experience in IT.Deep knowledge of at least two of the following: banking applications, network design, application development, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations.Excellent interpersonal skills: teamwork, facilitation, negotiation.Job DetailsSeniority Level: AssociateEmployment Type: Full‑timeJob Function: OtherIndustry: IT Services and IT ConsultingLocation: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia#J-18808-Ljbffr