E E Core and Cloud Solution Architect

About the Role

Ericsson is seeking an E2E Core and Cloud Solution Architect to join their team in Riyadh for a full-time position. This role involves owning the technical solution view across Packet Core, telco cloud, and adjacent Core Network domains. The architect will translate customer business and technology needs into secure, scalable, commercially viable, and deliverable end-to-end solutions, operating at the intersection of customer strategy, technology, commercial development, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing solution ownership and drive Packet Core and cloud-native solution design.
• Own the end-to-end architecture and shape commercially viable proposals.
• Engage customer stakeholders to understand business drivers, network strategy, and transformation priorities, translating these into a clear solution vision and value proposition.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions, communicating architectural choices, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
• Define the end-to-end architecture for Core Network solutions, including high- and low-level designs, interfaces, deployment models, and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate architectural options and recommend solutions that balance customer value, technical feasibility, performance, resilience, security, operational simplicity, and cost.
• Shape solutions across 4G EPC, 5G Core, dual-mode 5G Core, Packet Core, interworking, mobility, policy, subscriber data, signaling, and user-plane functions.
• Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CNFs/VNFs, CaaS, automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management across various cloud environments.
• Ensure solutions address infrastructure, applications, security, observability, resilience, scaling, upgrades, rollback, and operational readiness as an integrated system.
• Develop solution scope, technical value propositions, differentiators, assumptions, risks, acceptance criteria, and supporting technical documentation.
• Support the transition from presales through design, integration, deployment, acceptance, and operations, providing architectural guidance and technical governance.

Required Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or an equivalent theoretical background gained through experience.
• Significant experience in telecommunications, network architecture, systems integration, or a related technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect or technical lead for complex customer solutions.
• Proven experience working across at least three relevant Core Network domains, with the breadth to connect Packet Core and Cloud to adjacent domains such as IMS, BSS/OSS, and orchestration.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of 4G EPC, 5G Core, dual-mode deployments, 3GPP architecture, service-based architecture, network functions, interfaces, and interworking principles.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native telecom architecture, including microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CNFs/VNFs, CaaS, automation, CI/CD, lifecycle management, and observability.
• Experience designing or reviewing end-to-end architectures, high-level designs, integration models, non-functional requirements, migration approaches, and operational concepts.

Professional Experience

• Experience leading customer workshops, requirements analysis, technical negotiations, architecture reviews, solution presentations, and proposal activities.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary and multi-vendor teams across presales, engineering, delivery, operations, and partner organizations.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes, commercial value, delivery risk, operational impact, and long-term business sustainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex or sensitive topics clearly.