IBMi Solution Architect Infrastructure Expert Labs MEA

Gulf Business Machines PND; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech solutions provider in the Riyadh region is looking for a Solution Architect to connect technical requirements with IBM technology. You will provide end-to-end guidance, lead client workshops, and develop proposals that align with business strategies. The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of IBM i technologies and a proven ability to foster successful relationships with clients. This position offers growth opportunities on innovative technology solutions, and you will be part of a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with IBM i and IBM Power technologies.
• Experience in migrating client solutions to the cloud.
• Proven track record in defining and implementing technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery discussions with prospective clients.
• Create proposals for technology solutions.
• Establish relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Create and update TEL offering assets.

Skills

Extensive knowledge of IBM i

Design and optimization of infrastructure solutions

Performance analysis

Backup and migration techniques

Self-motivated problem solver

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Tools

IBM PowerHA

RPG

IBM i Security

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you'll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact. Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You'll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world‑class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that's passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a IBM Technology Expert Labs Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal.

You will work closely with clients and account teams to define technology solutions including technical architectures and technology services that meet the client's business goals. In this role, you will lead evaluation of the business needs and defining solutions with IBM technology and services that leverage and fit in with the client's software, hardware, and infrastructure. A successful Solution Architect will look for repeatable architecture patterns, automation, and assets to be deployed at scale and demonstrate a natural bias towards self‑motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.

If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win‑win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to:

• End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
• Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
• Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation.
• Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• Part of the role will involved creating and updating assets related to TEL offerings and services, which can be utilised by our sellers, our in-market solution architects and our delivery consultants.

Required Education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Core Technology Skills: Extensive knowledge and experience with IBM i and associated IBM Power technologies, including:

• Design, deployment and optimization of infrastructure solutions for IBM i.
• Performance analysis, recommendations and tuning.
• Backup, restore and migration techniques for both on-premise and IBM PowerVS IBM i environments.

• BRMS
• ICC
• HA and DR solutions aligned to customers hybrid cloud strategies.
• PowerHA
• DB2 Mirror for IBM i

• TEL IBM PowerHA Toolkits
• RPG skills
• IBM i application modernization

• MERLIN
• IBM i Security and Authority
• PowerSC

Solution Architect Skills: Track record of defining, sizing and pricing professional services solutions to deploy solutions across all solution phases from requirements definition, design, implementation planning, solution build, workload migration to operation.

Transformation Skills: Experience in migrating and transforming legacy client solutions to the cloud, navigating the challenges of cloud adoption and implementing cloud native technologies.

Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data, technologies and people to find answers and present solutions.

Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner and IBM teams.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Other Technology Expertise: Deep expertise in at least one of the following technology areas that are often integrated with or are adjacent to IBM i:

• IBM PowerVS
• Automation solutions such as Ansible or Terraform