Presales Assistant Manager

Saudi Telecom Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Telecom Company is seeking a senior infrastructure design expert to support presales through defining high-level designs and architecture. The role requires collaboration with sales, business teams, and enterprise architects to translate client requirements into scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in circuit/system/infrastructure/applications design within technology or telecom sectors, and holds a relevant bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in telecommunications engineering or computer science/related field.
• Experience in infrastructure design for telecom or technology sectors.
• Presales experience and client-facing engagement knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales to gather client requirements and define design inputs.
• Provide high-level infrastructure architecture and design guidelines.
• Lead capacity planning and cost estimation discussions with clients.
• Ensure designs comply with security, regulatory, and performance standards.
• Support presales testing, proposals, and RFP responses.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Presales support

Capacity planning

Architecture guidance

Security posture

Education

Bachelors in Telecommunications

Tools

Databases

Virtualization

Server consolidation

Job description

Job Purpose

nbsp This role holder is responsible for providing technical expertise pertaining to Infrastructure amp Applications Design and Engineering in order to ensure business continuity Also they are responsible for advising on operational work processes and mandates to minimize technical and operational risks

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales and business development teams to gather client requirements
• assess technical needs
• and provide infrastructure design inputs for proposals and RFPs
• Contribute to budgetary and capacity planning activities by estimating future infrastructure demands and cost structures
• ensuring alignment with customer expectations and financial constraints
• Define and communicate design guidelines and best practices to internal engineering teams
• ensuring alignment with customer goals and presales commitments
• Provide expert advisory on infrastructure architecture
• design methodologies
• and tactical strategies tailored to customer-specific environments and industry benchmarks
• Assess client network and security postures
• recommend high-level mitigation strategies or elevate significant risks during presales engagements
• Lead infrastructure dimensioning and capacity planning discussions with clients for new and expanding services
• factoring in scalability and resilience
• Ensure optimized
• compliant high-level infrastructure designs are proposed
• incorporating safety
• regulatory
• and performance standards as part of presales solutions
• Assist in evaluating customer system and equipment performance baselines
• suggest upgrades or alternatives in line with proposal development
• Establish infrastructure quality benchmarks that strike the right balance between cost-effectiveness and service excellence for competitive presales offers
• Advise clients on IT application architecture design covering service architecture technology stack and alignment with enterprise frameworks and digital transformation roadmaps
• Coordinate closely with enterprise architects and technical stakeholders to ensure Customer Requirements CRs are accurately translated into feasible scalable solutions
• Guide prioritization of client requirements based on business value feasibility and alignment with the broader solution strategy
• Identify and analyze gaps between current state as-is and desired future state to-be in client environments proposing strategic transition approaches
• Ensure all high-level designs and proposed architectures are supported by clear documentation performance baselines and value-driven optimizations
• Validate technical solution blueprints to confirm they meet client needs budgetary limits and long-term operational goals
• Support presales testing scope definition
• identifying areas requiring detailed validation such as database performance integration scenarios or usability under customer-specific conditions
• Ensure proposed services and applications integrate seamlessly with client s existing platforms and IT environments
• Recommend refinements to high-level solution designs to ensure accurate alignment with business drivers and client pain points
• Provide presales support for OS database systems virtualization archiving and server consolidation as per customer objectives
• Help define specifications for back-end infrastructure and middleware in alignment with proposed business applications
• Review existing client infrastructure and propose modernization strategies or design improvements during presales consultations
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to recommend database performance tuning and optimization plans
• Support planning and justification for data migration backup strategies and legacy decommissioning tailored to presales scenarios
• Provide forecasting and ROI analysis for infrastructure components such as cloud services storage and network capacity in support of client proposals
• Architect cloud solutions private public hybrid based on client needs evaluating providers and technologies for presales recommendations
• Advise on cloud integration strategies for clients transitioning from legacy environments to modern platforms
• Define pre-production test environments and methodologies required for client demonstrations or POCs
• Ensure all presales proposals comply with security standards and corporate policies including data protection and operational controls

Years of Experience

+5 Years of Experience.

Nature of Experience

Experience in the circuit/system/infrastructure/applications design area at technology/telecommunication industry

Education

Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Computer Science Electric Engineering