The company is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping, designing, and delivering large-scale infrastructure architectures that support AI-driven platforms, enterprise applications, data environments, and cloud transformation initiatives across the GCC and international markets. This is a senior, customer-facing role for an individual who combines deep infrastructure architecture expertise with strong architectural leadership across cloud, hybrid, on-premise, data center, networking, security, DevOps, and platform environments. You will act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior technology leaders, helping organizations translate strategic business priorities into secure, scalable, resilient, and outcome-driven infrastructure architectures.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end technical solutions and architectures based on the company's in-house products and business requirements.
- Lead technical evaluations of new solutions, including hardware sizing, infrastructure recommendations, security considerations, storage policies, and system integrations.
- Develop and maintain architecture documentation, including technical standards, guidelines, and best practices.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance during pre-sales activities, including customer engagements, technical presentations, and proposal development.
- Conduct technical risk assessments and proactively identify and mitigate potential architectural risks.
- Collaborate closely with product and technical leads to ensure solutions meet both technical and strategic goals.
- Lead project kickoffs from an infrastructure and deployment perspective.
- Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management, and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans, and related risk assessments.
Core Focus Areas
- Infrastructure architecture
- Data analytics and AI solution enablement
- Hardware sizing and capacity planning
- Infrastructure, security, and storage policy recommendations
- System integration
- Pre-sales technical advisory
- Architecture documentation and governance
- Technical risk assessment
- Deployment readiness and project kickoff support
