Senior Solution Architect

About the Role

Jodayn is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves designing robust, scalable, secure, and business-aligned technology solutions. The Senior Solution Architect will translate business and functional requirements into end-to-end architecture, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and operational needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Develop high-level solution designs covering applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and deployment architecture.
• Ensure proposed solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology strategies.
• Assess solution options and recommend architecture approaches based on business value, feasibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and total cost of ownership.
• Define integration requirements, interfaces, APIs, messaging patterns, and dependencies between enterprise systems.
• Identify solution-level data requirements, information flows, data ownership dependencies, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
• Define infrastructure, hosting, cloud, network, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery architecture requirements.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, identity, access control, and compliance requirements into the solution architecture.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical design assurance, and solution compliance assessments.
• Identify technical risks, architectural constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation actions.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, domain architects, business teams, project managers, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and vendors.
• Support technology selection, vendor evaluation, RFP development, proposal assessment, and solution demonstrations.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle from concept and design through implementation and transition.
• Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, application modernization, API enablement, integration transformation, and legacy replacement.
• Contribute to architecture governance forums and Architecture Review Boards.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in solution architecture.

Required Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to simplify complex technical topics for business and executive stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work across multiple architecture and technology domains.
• Consulting mindset with a strong focus on quality and practical outcomes.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced and multi-stakeholder environments.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.