E E Core and Cloud Solution Architect

About the Role

Ericsson is seeking an E E Core and Cloud Solution Architect to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time 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 architecture and solution discussions with customers, guiding multidisciplinary solution teams and shaping technical proposals.
• Ensure proposed solutions can be successfully implemented, integrated, accepted, operated, and evolved through their lifecycle.
• Lead the design stages in the delivery of critical programs, outlining both high-level and low-level designs.
• Engage customer stakeholders to understand business drivers, network strategy, pain points, and transformation priorities, translating these into a clear solution vision, technical scope, and value proposition.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions, communicating architectural choices, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact throughout presales and solution shaping, ensuring alignment across the customer, Ericsson teams, partners, and suppliers.

Architectural Ownership and Design

• Define the end-to-end architecture for Core Network solutions, including solution concepts, high- and low-level designs, interfaces, deployment models, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate architectural options and recommend solutions that balance customer value, technical feasibility, performance, resilience, security, operational simplicity, and cost.
• Collaborate with architects, Product Management, R&D, Delivery, Operations, and partners to maximize reuse and avoid unnecessary complexity.
• 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 central, regional, edge, and distributed cloud environments.
• Ensure solutions address infrastructure, applications, security, observability, resilience, scaling, upgrades, rollback, and operational readiness as an integrated system.

Commercial and Delivery Support

• Work with Core 3 and sales teams to translate customer needs into technically robust and commercially viable solutions and proposals.
• Develop solution scope, technical value propositions, differentiators, assumptions, risks, acceptance criteria, and supporting technical documentation.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with Ericsson portfolio capabilities, delivery models, commercial commitments, and customer expectations.
• Support the transition from presales through design, integration, deployment, acceptance, and operations, providing architectural guidance and technical governance.
• Manage key architectural risks and ensure technical decisions remain aligned with customer requirements.
• Support upgrades, migrations, modernization, capacity growth, and automation while capturing lessons learned and providing feedback to R&D and portfolio teams.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess more than 10 years of experience in a relevant field. The role requires depth in Packet Core and cloud-native architectures, along with the ability to connect these domains with IMS and Communication Services, BSS/OSS, orchestration, automation, transport, security, and operational processes.

Application Process

For details on the typical hiring process at Ericsson, please refer to the application link. Ericsson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds.