Senior Enterprise Architect: Tech Transformation & Strategy

EY; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous learning

Competitive compensation

Diverse and inclusive culture

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Technology Consulting team in Riyadh, contributing to major transformation programs across the Middle East. You will define target-state architectures, governance, and roadmaps, collaborating with senior leaders to ensure architecture alignment with business strategy.

The role requires hands-on design across applications, data, cloud and security domains, plus strong stakeholder engagement and Arabic language skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 4-7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and/or technology architecture roles.
• Arabic language proficiency is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture assessments, enterprise architecture engagements and transformation initiatives.
• Understand business strategy and vision, and translate them into enterprise-wide technology vision and architecture strategy aligned to client priorities.
• Develop business, application, data, technology and security architectures.
• Define architecture principles, standards, target architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Design enterprise and solution architectures aligned with business objectives and technology strategy.
• Create architecture artifacts, including capability models, reference architectures, solution blueprints, integration architectures, roadmaps and application interaction diagrams.
• Establish and support architecture governance processes and Architecture Review Boards (ARBs).
• Conduct architecture reviews, solution assurance activities and compliance assessments.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms and vendor solutions, and provide architecture recommendations.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Architecture standards

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Arabic language proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline

Tools

MEGA

ARIS

Alfabet

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Technology Consulting team in Riyadh, contributing to major transformation programs across the Middle East. You will define target-state architectures, governance, and roadmaps, collaborating with senior leaders to ensure architecture alignment with business strategy.

The role requires hands-on design across applications, data, cloud and security domains, plus strong stakeholder engagement and Arabic language skills.