Digital Solution Advisor

About Abacus

Abacus is a global professional services leader with nearly 40 years of experience, specializing in technology, outsourcing, and people solutions. The company focuses on providing bespoke solutions that enable organizations to embrace change for sustainable growth, supported by a global team of over 5,000 professionals. Abacus supports over 1,500 enterprise clients across digital transformation, emerging technologies, SAP enterprise solutions, outsourcing, and human capital, aiming to build effective and scalable environments.

Role Summary

Abacus is seeking a highly skilled and articulate Digital Solution Advisor, specifically an experienced GCP Consultant, to join its Cloud Solutions team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves acting as a strategic technical advisor, working closely with clients to understand their business needs, and designing scalable Google Cloud solutions to support their transformation journeys. The position requires strong technical expertise in GCP, excellent communication skills, and the ability to translate complex requirements into clear cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sales discussions with customers to understand business challenges and cloud requirements.
• Conduct discovery sessions, workshops, and technical deep-dives to gather client needs.
• Present GCP capabilities, best practices, and architectural recommendations.
• Develop customized solution proposals, technical documentation, and value-driven presentations.
• Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective GCP architectures covering compute, storage, networking, security, DevOps, and data services.
• Collaborate with technical and delivery teams to validate solution feasibility.
• Create detailed architecture diagrams, Proof of Concepts (PoCs), and demo environments.
• Recommend migration strategies for on-prem or multi-cloud environments.
• Support sales teams with technical inputs for bids, proposals, RFPs, and pricing models, including API management and GCP solution inputs.
• Highlight differentiators such as API analytics, AI-driven insights, developer experience, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure solution alignment with GCP frameworks and compliance standards, including pricing models for Apigee X/hybrid.
• Work closely with Sales, Delivery, and Practice Leads to ensure successful handover from pre-sales to implementation.
• Participate in internal knowledge-sharing and contribute to building GCP playbooks and best practices.
• Stay updated with GCP product updates, certifications, and new releases.
• Represent the company in GCP events, webinars, and client briefings.
• Provide insights on market trends and maintain competitive technical knowledge.

Required Experience and Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Cloud Pre-Sales or Solution Architecture.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of GCP services including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, VPC, Cloud VPN, Interconnect, IAM, KMS, Security Command Center, and Cloud Functions.
• Deep experience with Apigee API Management.
• Experience in developing PoCs, demos, and solution architecture diagrams.
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, backup, DR, and cost optimization.
• Proficiency in API proxy design, policies, and flow.
• Experience in Apigee X & Apigee Hybrid architecture.

Preferred Certifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Google Cloud Engineer / Data Engineer.
• Any relevant cloud certifications (AWS/Azure) are a plus.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, requiring 5-10 years of relevant experience. The role involves working within a dynamic Cloud Solutions team, collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders to deliver advanced cloud solutions.