AI-Driven Network Automation Architect

Cisco Systems, Inc; Riyadh; Presencial; SAR 500.000 - 780.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare and Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase program

Flexible Spending Benefit

Flex and Schooling Allowances

Descripción de la vacante

Cisco CX is seeking a Customer Delivery Software Architect to lead the design and delivery of automation and AI-enabled solutions for a major service provider in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on establishing sound architecture, governance, and scalable patterns for network automation and intelligent operations.

Frequent onsite collaboration in Riyadh is required as you translate requirements into architecture blueprints, mentor engineers, and drive delivery across delivery teams while aligning

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; or Master’s with 8+ years; or PhD with 5+ years; or equivalent.
• 1) Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade software, automation, orchestration, or systems-integration solutions.
• 2) Strong proficiency in software architecture principles, distributed systems, API design, event-driven architectures, data modelling, and integration patterns.
• 3) Hands-on experience with Python or a comparable programming language, APIs, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and modern development practices.
• 4) Experience architecting solutions that integrate network infrastructure, operational platforms, telemetry, data, and business workflows.
• 5) Understanding of AI/ML concepts and their practical application to automation, analytics, and operational use cases.
• 6) Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and communicate effectively with tech and executive stakeholders.
• 7) Experience with Cisco NSO or comparable orchestration platforms, including service modelling, lifecycle management, device integration and reusable automation components.

Responsabilidades

• Own the end-to-end software architecture for network automation, orchestration, assurance, observability, and AI-enabled operational solutions.
• 2) Translate business and operational requirements into architecture blueprints, technical roadmaps, integration patterns, data models, APIs, and engineering backlogs.
• 3) Design secure, modular, scalable solutions integrating network platforms with systems such as Cisco Crosswork.
• 4) Establish engineering standards covering source control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, release management, security, and software lifecycle governance.
• 5) Guide engineering teams through solution design and delivery, conducting architecture reviews and ensuring implementations meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• 6) Leads and influences global, cross-functional teams—including PMs, PgMs, SDMs, CEs, TLs, and customer stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of complex, multi-architecture solutions aligned to business outcomes
• 7) Define practical approaches for applying AI and analytics to use cases such as anomaly detection, operational insight, decision support, and workflow automation.
• 8) Build reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and best practices while mentoring engineers and strengthening software architecture capabilities across delivery teams.

Conocimientos

Software architecture

Distributed systems

API design

Event-driven architectures

Data modelling

Integration patterns

Python

CI/CD

Containers

Kubernetes

Crosswork

Educación

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Herramientas

Cisco NSO

Git

APIs

Containers

Kubernetes

Crosswork

Descripción del empleo

Cisco CX is seeking a Customer Delivery Software Architect to lead the design and delivery of automation and AI-enabled solutions for a major service provider in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on establishing sound architecture, governance, and scalable patterns for network automation and intelligent operations.

Frequent onsite collaboration in Riyadh is required as you translate requirements into architecture blueprints, mentor engineers, and drive delivery across delivery teams while aligning