Senior Solution Architect: Cloud, Security & Integration

Jodayn; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Jodayn is seeking a Senior Solution Architect in Riyadh to translate business requirements into end-to-end architectures, covering applications, data, cloud, security, and deployment. You will drive architecture governance, design assurance, and collaboration across business and technology teams.

The role requires 10+ years IT experience with hands-on architecture leadership, strong stakeholder management, and a proven track record in large-scale transformations and cloud enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or related field.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent architectural framework knowledge.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise solutions across multiple applications and platforms.
• Strong stakeholder engagement with business and tech leadership.

Responsibilities

• Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Develop high-level designs covering applications, integration, data, cloud, security, and deployment.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Assess options and recommend architectures based on value, feasibility, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
• Define integration requirements, interfaces, APIs, and messaging patterns between enterprise systems.
• Identify data ownership, information flows, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
• Define infrastructure, hosting, cloud, network, resilience, and disaster recovery architecture needs.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, identity, access control, and compliance into designs.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design assurance, and solution compliance assessments.
• Identify risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation actions.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, business teams, developers, and vendors.
• Support technology selection, RFPs, and demonstrations for solutions.
• Provide guidance through the solution lifecycle, from concept to transition.
• Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption and API enablement.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Integration & API

Data flow design

Cloud & hybrid

Security-by-design

Governance & design assurance

Risk & dependency management

Stakeholder consulting

Architecture documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE

TOGAF certification

Cloud architecture certifications

ArchiMate certification

Tools

Bizzdesign

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Orbus/iServer

ARIS

Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

Job description

Jodayn is seeking a Senior Solution Architect in Riyadh to translate business requirements into end-to-end architectures, covering applications, data, cloud, security, and deployment. You will drive architecture governance, design assurance, and collaboration across business and technology teams.

The role requires 10+ years IT experience with hands-on architecture leadership, strong stakeholder management, and a proven track record in large-scale transformations and cloud enablement.