Company
Our client is founded by the Saudi government to bring all communities together and develop all sectors and fields with innovative solutions. The organization generates over $24 million in sales and has over 850 companies and 700 employees.
They are currently looking for a Solution Architect to be based in KSA/UAE or remote work.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Support product teams in articulating their requirements.
Help product and engineering teams understand their desired solutions in the context of existing systems and architecture, including software structure, characteristics, behavior, and data flow.
Collaborate with other members to understand the evolving state of the architecture.
Perform systems integration, solution modelling, benefit analysis, and assessment of system behavior.
Work with engineering team to develop and analyze specifications, service levels, and performance indicators to manage, define, and deliver solutions.

Qualification & Requirements:

10+ years of relevant work experience in enterprise, mobile and complex solution design.
5+ years of relevant work experience in software development using a general-purpose programming language (e.g., C#, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, and/or Swift).
Experience in designing, developing, deploying, and procuring software for distributed systems.
Broad knowledge of software design, architecting, development, and software testing methodologies.
Experience designing and working with highly available and failure recovery systems.
Experience working with DevOps practices, Git version control, and agile development approaches. Experience using the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) approach is preferred.
Experience developing for container-based architecture is required. Experience with Kubernetes is preferred.
Understanding of information and application security concepts, including public key infrastructure, data confidentiality and integrity practices, certificate-based authentication, network security, open ID connect (OIDC), social engineering, zero trust architecture, security posture management, and multifactor authentication.
Experience developing for major cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is preferred.
Understanding of big data processing, data pipeline, machine learning, and AI processing methods.
Broad knowledge of release and configuration management and infrastructure-as-code practices in both internal and cloud hosted environments is preferred.