I am currently supporting a leading organization in Riyadh that is looking to hire a Senior Azure Architect on a permanent basis. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced cloud architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized Azure solutions for enterprise and banking customers. The successful candidate will take ownership of end-to-end cloud solution architecture, covering landing zone design, governance, hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, workload migration and modernization, security and compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery, and technical leadership from design through to implementation and operational transition.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end Azure cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure environments, including landing zones, subscription structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance
- Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps
- Lead design discussions across migration, modernisation, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience
- Work closely with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue and risk resolution
- Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, particularly for banking and regulated environments
- Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions
- Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required
- Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns
- Mentor engineers and architects while helping to establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices
Key Skills & Experience Required:
- Strong Azure architecture experience across enterprise-scale cloud environments
- Deep knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, and Entra ID integration
- Strong Azure networking experience, including VNets, peering, Private Link, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancer concepts
- Experience across Azure compute, storage, PaaS data services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
- Proven experience producing high-level and low-level design documentation
- Strong understanding of cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripting, and CI/CD principles
- Strong stakeholder management, customer-facing communication, and technical leadership skills
- Previous experience working with banking, financial services, or regulated customers would be highly beneficial
This role would suit a senior Azure Architect who is comfortable operating in customer-facing environments and leading complex cloud architecture engagements from strategy and design through to delivery. Please apply or reach out directly to discuss the opportunity in more detail. Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
- Must hold transferable Iqama
