Lead Multi Cloud & Disaster Recovery Architect

About the Role

Salt is seeking a Lead Multi Cloud & Disaster Recovery Architect for a contract position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves leading the assessment and design of a comprehensive Disaster Recovery strategy for a client's technology estate, with a focus on multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The successful candidate will serve as the overall technical authority for the strategy and design workstream, translating business continuity requirements into practical, cost-effective, and resilient architecture recommendations.

Project Context

The project focuses on defining resilience and disaster recovery capabilities across a complex technology environment. This includes Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, SaaS, on-premises infrastructure, networking, integration/API platforms, and edge/OT environments. GCP is a significant component, comprising over 300 Compute Engine instances, 12 Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, and 54 Cloud SQL instances.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical assessment of the existing technology estate across GCP, Azure, AWS, SaaS, on-premises, network, integration/API, and edge/OT environments.
• Assess application criticality and validate achievable Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Evaluate and recommend suitable disaster recovery options, including cloud-to-cloud and on-premises-to-cloud recovery models.
• Define the target-state multi-cloud and hybrid DR architecture, including High-Level Designs (HLDs).
• Develop the overall backup, replication, and recovery strategy across infrastructure, platforms, databases, and applications.
• Provide technical recommendations covering resilience, availability, data protection, data residency, security, cost, and vendor lock-in considerations.
• Define the DR operating model, governance framework, roles and responsibilities, and ongoing operational requirements.
• Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory, security, and data-residency requirements.
• Develop a costed implementation roadmap, technical requirements, and recommendations for subsequent DR implementation and operations RFP.
• Independently lead client-facing technical workshops with cloud, infrastructure, security, network, application, and operations teams.
• Coordinate domain architects and subject-matter experts, challenge proposed solutions, and drive technical decisions through to stakeholder agreement.
• Present architecture options, technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Candidate Profile and Experience

The ideal candidate is a senior multi-cloud and disaster recovery architect with over 10 years of experience, deep GCP expertise, and a strong track record in enterprise-scale resilience strategy and architecture. This role requires consulting leadership skills to independently drive workshops, technical decisions, and stakeholder alignment.

Leadership and Communication

• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to operate as the overall technical authority for the architecture and strategy workstream.
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for business and technology stakeholders.