Job Description

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.



Senior Manager- Solution Architect

As a Solution Architects at Publicis Sapient you are client-focused, sector experienced, and service-oriented professionals who embrace challenge and change. They work with client stakeholders as the technical strategist to co-design the next-generation technologies that shape how the world's first cognitive city operates and shares information between tens of millions of users.

They have extensive experience collaboratively designing, system architecting, developing, securing, and procuring products and services for broad, complex enterprises. They have exceptional communication skills that complement a deep understanding of software and service development.

Your Impact

• Solution Architects have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with clients and within the team.
• Collaborate with clients to dissect complex problems and co-design or procure solutions tailored to client needs.
• Coordinate with teams from different verticals to ensure customer solutions are designed and implemented according to a set of guidelines and best practices.
• Support clients in understanding the context of their solution in the broader digital ecosystem and communicate complex technical information in non-technical terms.
• Help clients break down digital strategies into proposed solutions.
• Evaluate build vs buy decisions and create Analysis of Alternative

• 15 or more years of relevant work experience in architecture and engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a program level architect, showcasing ability to create large scale architectures, estimate costs, manage dependencies and complexities.
• Current experience developing for major cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is preferred and Serverless technologies
• Previous experience in Digital Strategy / Program level architecture (multiple systems comprising an entire ecosystem)
• Experience with successful Start Up organization (going from garage to general use)
• Experience with one or more architecture frameworks (IAF, TOGAF, FEAF, DODAF, etc.)
• Understanding of Big data processing, data pipeline, machine learning, and AI processing methods.

• TOGAF Certificate preferred
• Knowledge of release and configuration management, networking & infrastructure management tools for on-premises and cloud hosted environments.

• Should be ok to travel to KSA (50%)
• Arabic speaker preferred