Your Impact:
Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed – today and into tomorrow. Our Critical Mission Solutions business is invested in you and your success. Everything we do - whether Aerospace, Defence, Intelligence, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Nuclear, Automotive, or Telecommunications - is more than just a project. It is our challenge as human beings, too. That is why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships. Jacobs is supporting a Government organisation to help modernize and develop its communications network and part of this strategy is the implementation of a Nationwide Fibre Network. This includes the supply, installation and design of fibre optic projects at multiple locations (Central, East and West) within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The IT Architect will support the SANGCOM Team in the following areas:

• Enterprise Architecture Management to support the translation of the Customer’s business vision and strategies into effective enterprise change; and to ensure the continuing alignment of IS/IT services provision to the Customer’s business objectives

• Solution Architecture Management, to support the delivery of specific change projects; to review architecture decisions and migration plans to identify efficiencies and advance standardisation; to ensure the solutions align to the architecture and technology principles, policies, standards and reference models defined by Enterprise Architecture Management processes; and capture and manage exceptions

• Deployed Architecture Management, to provide an up to date, consistent baseline of information about the provision of the End to End Services; to contribute to the integrated change planning process from demand to delivery; and to ensure compliance with and alignment to the Customer's Enterprise Architecture.

Key responsibilities & experience

• Develop and agree IT requirements.
• Identify hardware and software requirements.
• Organise workloads of the technical teams in the most efficient way.
• Monitor progress of projects and ensure they complete on time.
• Report progress to management.
• Carry out some of the technical work as required.
• IT systems health.
• Advise on future IT developments to managers.
• Enterprise Architecture Management.
• Deployed Architecture Management.
• ITIL Trained.
• Knowledge of ITSM.
• Knowledge of Network Monitoring System.
• Experience in Network Operation Centres.

Here’s What You’ll Need:
The post-holder will hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems or similar, be ITIL trained, MODAF, ITIL Design phase, Enterprise and Solutions Architecture practitioner, have knowledge of ITSM. Jacobs. A world where you can. From our inclusive employee networks, to our positive mental health champions – we’re committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally – and together, our diverse perspectives and unique backgrounds power our collective strength. We collaborate and share! By supporting one another, we all succeed. With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximise your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities to do good too – from participating in our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.