About the Role
From the moment you wake up until you go to bed, consider the media you consume, the adverts you see, the apps you use, the websites you browse, and all the shopping you do online. Many of these interactions have been influenced by the company products. We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Enterprise Architect Professional Services to join our team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In this role, you will guide architecture through the transformation lifecycle, build executive confidence, govern design decisions, lead architecture build, and ensure technology choices support long-term value.
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What You’ll Do
As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will bridge business goals and technical delivery by designing target architectures, planning transitions, and creating decommissioning strategies. You will support adoption and sustainability using change management frameworks such as ADKAR.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and advance the architectural intent crafted during pre-sales.
- Provide architectural leadership across the full transformation lifecycle and guide platform adoption and evolution.
- Convert the success roadmap from pre-sales into a comprehensive, managed transition plan with clear sequencing, decision points, and risk controls.
- Formulate robust, industry-specific architectural perspectives and translate them into target-state architecture, reference models, and phased implementation plans.
- Foster and maintain executive trust in architectural direction, serving as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology collaborators.
- Collaborate with licensing and services sales teams to enhance major sales initiatives.
- Coordinate architectural efforts among delivery teams, subject matter experts, and partners to ensure build integrity and alignment during execution.
- Establish and lead architecture governance and assurance forums.
- Partner with pre-sales teams to ensure lessons learned, build patterns, and reference architectures continually improve future pursuits and delivery outcomes.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- Proven experience providing enterprise architecture leadership across large-scale transformation programs, from early visioning and pre-sales through delivery, adoption, and platform evolution.
- Strong grounding in TOGAF principles and lifecycle-based architecture governance, applied pragmatically in complex enterprise environments.
- Broad understanding of digital marketing, data, and activation ecosystems.
- Ability to craft compelling narratives that translate architectural choices into business-relevant results for executives.
- Experience as a trusted architectural advisor to senior executives.
- Strong understanding of AI, automation, and emerging agentic models and their implications for enterprise platforms.
- Experience working closely with delivery teams, partners, and vendors to maintain build integrity.
- Ability to apply structured change and adoption approaches (including ADKAR) to support human and organizational aspects of architectural evolution.
- A collaborative, outcome-focused leadership style with relentless focus on value and adoption.
- Fluency in English is required.
Benefits
As part of our commitment to employees, we offer a remarkable work environment that is recognized globally.
- Ongoing feedback and growth through our unique Check-In approach.
- Opportunities to make an impact in your role.
- Participation in a culture that empowers all employees to contribute to innovation and creativity.
Join us and advance your career while being part of a transformative team that thrives on creativity and productivity.
