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Microsoft

<div><div>With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&amp;S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft&rsquo;s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers&rsquo; expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&amp;S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft&rsquo;s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&amp;S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.</div><div><br>
The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&amp;S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.</div><div><br>
The CSA role is designed to enable customer success by driving technical strategy, solution design, and adoption of Microsoft Teams and Viva products. The CSA acts as a trusted advisor, helping customers realize business value through modern collaboration and employee experience platforms.</div><div><br>
This role is Microsoft onsite only.</div><div><br>
Microsoft&rsquo;s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.</div><div></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Responsibilities</b></h2><div><b>
Business Impact</b></div><div>
Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.</div><div>
Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content.</div><div>
Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage &amp; Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.</div><div>
Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints.</div><div><b><br>
Customer Centricity</b></div><div>
Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.</div><div>
Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required.</div><div>
Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation.</div><div><b><br>
Partner Specialization</b></div><div>
Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.</div><div>
Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives to translate opportunities into actions. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations.</div><div><b><br>
Technical Leadership</b></div><div>
Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices.</div><div>
Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level.</div><div>
Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Qualifications</b></h2><div><b>
Required/minimum qualifications</b></div><div>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.</div><div>
Ability to speak both English and Arabic on a fluent business level - both written and verbal</div><div></div><div><b><br>
Additional or preferred qualifications</b></div><div>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.</div><div>
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).</div><div>
4+ years experience working on technical projects.</div><div>
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).</div><br>
<div></div>
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.</div>

Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Infrastructure

Brainlake Advertising LLC

<div><p><b>About The Role</b></p><p></p><p>
We&rsquo;re looking for a Chief Digital Architect to lead architecture vision and governance across a multi-brand digital ecosystem defining how customer-facing platforms, data, and Gen-AI applications come together to deliver next-generation experiences.</p><p>
You&rsquo;ll act as the overall architecture authority, aligning strategy and execution across digital, web, mobile, loyalty, integration, and cloud. You&rsquo;ll collaborate with Enterprise, Cloud, and Solution Architects to design a cohesive, scalable, and secure landscape that powers innovation across multiple brands.</p><p>
This is a senior, high-impact role for someone who combines deep technical acumen with strategic leadership and hands-on delivery.</p><p></p><p><b>
What You'll Do</b></p><p></p><ul>
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Act as the Chief Architect for the enterprise digital landscape.</li>
<li>Coordinate across Solution, Cloud, and Enterprise Architecture teams.</li>
<li>Map and document the current-state architecture across all digital domains.</li>
<li>Lead architecture reviews of key customer journeys and technology layers.</li>
<li>Design target-state architectures and transition roadmaps across platforms.</li>
<li>Define architecture for digital workstreams (web, mobile, loyalty, data, integration, cloud).</li>
<li>Ensure architectural coherence across Gen-AI, cloud-native, and CX applications.</li>
<li>Drive design reviews, documentation standards, and governance processes.</li>
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Requirements</b></p><ul>
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12+ years building and delivering customer-facing digital applications (web &amp; mobile).</li>
<li>Expertise in MDM, CDP, CXP, CMS, DAM, and Loyalty platforms.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with cloud-native applications (Azure or GCP).</li>
<li>Experience building and deploying Gen-AI solutions.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of software architecture styles, microservices, and DevSecOps.</li>
<li>Exposure to multi-tenancy and FinOps in scalable cloud environments.</li>
<li>Experience leading architecture teams and collaborating with delivery squads.</li>
<li>Broad understanding of retail and e-commerce ecosystems.</li>
<li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.</li></ul></div>

Chief Digital Architect

DXC Technology

<div><p><b>Job Description:</b></p><p><b>
Essential Job Functions:
</b></p><ul><li><p>Design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-effective GCP solutions for enterprise and retail IT environments.</p></li><li><p>
Lead cloud migration strategies, including planning and execution of workload transitions to GCP.</p></li><li><p>
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Deployment Manager.</p></li><li><p>
Integrate third-party services such as Active Directory, ServiceNow, Backup, Antivirus and FinOps tools with GCP.</p></li><li><p>
Troubleshoot and resolve GCP infrastructure issues to ensure high availability and performance.</p></li><li><p>
Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and manage GKE-based container orchestration.</p></li><li><p>
Ensure security, compliance and governance across GCP environments.</p></li><li><p>
Stay updated with GCP service enhancements and industry best practices.</p></li><li><p>
Support Windows and Linux OS installation and troubleshooting.</p></li><li><p>
Communicate effectively with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.</p></li></ul><p><b>
Basic Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li><p>
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience</p></li><li><p>
Minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in IT, with 3 years of working experience on GCP projects.</p></li><li><p>
Proven expertise in GCP native SaaS and PaaS services.</p></li><li><p>
Hands-on experience with cloud migration, infrastructure automation and DevOps practices.</p></li><li><p>
Proficiency in Terraform, Deployment Manager and CI/CD tools.</p></li><li><p>
Strong understanding of IAM, VPC, and GCP security frameworks.</p></li><li><p>
Good understanding of GCP database services such as Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore and Cloud Spanner.</p></li><li><p>
Experience with Windows and Linux system administration.</p></li><li><p>
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.</p></li><li><p>
GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification is required.</p></li><li><p>
Preferred to have certification on Azure, AWS &amp; OCI.</p></li></ul><p><b>
Other Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li><p>
An advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus</p></li><li><p>
Relevant certifications, such as CompTIA A+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, or Certified Cloud Practitioner, are a plus.</p></li></ul><p></p><p>
At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We&rsquo;re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.</p><p></p><p><b>
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available</b> here<b><i>.</i></b></p></div><p></p>

GCP Subject Matter Expert

Google

<div>
 Applicants to this role must have work authorization in Saudi Arabia as this role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.
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   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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   5 years of experience planning and executing cloud adoption governance, IT transformation, and cloud migrations, focusing on infrastructure modernization and technical implementation.
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   Ability to communicate in English and Arabic fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.
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  Preferred qualifications:
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   Certification in GCP Professional Cloud Architect or other relevant cloud certifications.
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   Experience with customer-facing cloud migration engagements for multiple enterprise clients, encompassing service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations, with a focus on infrastructure modernization and migration to GCP.
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   Experience driving the development of technical solutions that address critical business challenges, partnering with cross-functional and technical teams.
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 The Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.
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 Google Cloud accelerates every organization&rsquo;s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google&rsquo;s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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   Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful infrastructure-focused implementations and migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), becoming a trusted advisor to decision-makers.
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   Manage the deployment of cloud-based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to customer requirements. Contribute to the development of standardized solutions and automation scripts.
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   Lead the program management of multi-functional large Google Cloud Professional Services projects, covering program planning, delivery assurance, tracking, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management. Manage risks, issues, and actions. Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders.
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   Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of infrastructure and cloud migration phases (discovery/assessment, foundations, and migration).
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   Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines. Mentor junior consultants and actively participate in community contributions.
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 Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
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Infrastructure Cloud Consultant, Global Service Delivery (English, Arabic)

<div>Applicants to this role must have work authorization in Saudi Arabia as this role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Minimum qualifications:</b></h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>5 years of experience planning and executing cloud adoption governance, IT transformation, and cloud migrations, focusing on infrastructure modernization and technical implementation.<br>
</li>
<li>Ability to communicate in English and Arabic fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.</li></ul><br>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Preferred qualifications:</b></h3><ul>
<li>Certification in GCP Professional Cloud Architect or other relevant cloud certifications.</li>
<li>Experience with customer-facing cloud migration engagements for multiple enterprise clients, encompassing service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations, with a focus on infrastructure modernization and migration to GCP.</li>
<li>Experience driving the development of technical solutions that address critical business challenges, partnering with cross-functional and technical teams.</li>
</ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the job</b></h2><p>
The Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.</p>
<p>
Google Cloud accelerates every organization&rsquo;s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google&rsquo;s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.</p></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Responsibilities</b></h2><ul>
<li>Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful infrastructure-focused implementations and migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), becoming a trusted advisor to decision-makers.</li>
<li>Manage the deployment of cloud-based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to customer requirements. Contribute to the development of standardized solutions and automation scripts.</li>
<li>Lead the program management of multi-functional large Google Cloud Professional Services projects, covering program planning, delivery assurance, tracking, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management. Manage risks, issues, and actions. Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders.</li>
<li>Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of infrastructure and cloud migration phases (discovery/assessment, foundations, and migration).</li>
<li>Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines. Mentor junior consultants and actively participate in community contributions.</li>
</ul></div>Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.</div>

Skm Group

<p>We are seeking an experienced <b>Infrastructure &amp; Cloud Architecture Consultant</b> to lead a comprehensive review and assessment of <b>IT infrastructure and cloud architecture</b> for a <b>digital banking environment</b>.<br/>This role involves conducting <b>end-to-end evaluations</b>&mdash;from requirements gathering and design review to gap analysis, remediation validation, and operational effectiveness assessments&mdash;ensuring alignment with <b>SAMA regulations</b>, <b>ITIL</b>, <b>COBIT</b>, and <b>industry best practices</b>.</p><p><b>Key Responsibilities1. Technology Design Review</b></p><ul><li>Develop and distribute <b>data collection templates</b> for technology stakeholders.</li><li>Gather and review architectural documentation (HLD/LLD, topology diagrams, capacity sizing, and inventories).</li><li>Conduct up to <b>five stakeholder sessions</b> for data collection and validation.</li><li>Analyze documentation to identify <b>gaps, inconsistencies, and missing information</b>, and provide feedback (up to two iterations).</li></ul><p><b>2. Architecture &amp; Operating Model Assessment</b></p><ul><li>Assess <b>IT infrastructure and cloud architecture</b> for scalability, flexibility, integration, and dependency management.</li><li>Evaluate the <b>cloud service provider&rsquo;s operating model</b>, service delivery efficiency, and governance alignment.</li><li>Review <b>disaster recovery</b> design and readiness.</li><li>Assess infrastructure and cloud software stacks for <b>interoperability and performance optimization</b>.</li><li>Evaluate <b>IT processes and governance structures</b> in accordance with <b>ITIL</b> and <b>COBIT</b> frameworks.</li><li>Ensure <b>design documentation</b> complies with <b>SAMA</b> and global best practices.</li></ul><p><b>3. Design Gap Analysis &amp; Recommendations</b></p><ul><li>Conduct detailed <b>gap analyses</b> of ICT and cloud architecture, mapping each gap to <b>SAMA guidelines</b> and assigning <b>risk levels (high, medium, low)</b>.</li><li>Develop <b>risk mitigation plans</b>, prioritized recommendations, and improvement roadmaps.</li><li>Present findings and secure stakeholder <b>sign-off</b> through formal assessment reports.</li></ul><p><b>4. Validation of Design Gap Closure</b></p><ul><li>Validate <b>remediation efforts</b> across domains including <b>Cyber Security</b>, <b>Technology Governance</b>, <b>Business Continuity Management (BCM)</b>, <b>Data Privacy</b>, <b>Third Party Management</b>, and <b>IT Architecture</b>.</li><li>Review <b>evidence of remediation actions</b> and update gap closure documentation, including <b>maturity assessments</b>.</li><li>Highlight any <b>residual or showstopper gaps</b> and revise mitigation plans accordingly.</li></ul><p><b>5. Pre&ndash;Go-Live Review</b></p><ul><li>Verify closure of all <b>design-phase gaps</b> across people, processes, and technology.</li><li>Assess <b>go-live readiness</b>, including system stability, team preparedness, and procedural compliance.</li><li>Conduct <b>sample checks</b> on implemented controls and recommendations.</li><li>Deliver <b>final pre&ndash;go-live validation reports</b> with improvement actions and agreed mitigation plans (up to two validation iterations).</li></ul><p><b>6. Post&ndash;Go-Live Review</b></p><ul><li>Evaluate <b>operational effectiveness</b> of IT infrastructure and cloud architecture post&ndash;implementation.</li><li>Review evidence of remediation actions and operational procedures.</li><li>Identify residual effectiveness gaps and recommend final corrective actions.</li><li>Produce <b>operational effectiveness and control validation reports</b>.</li></ul><p><b>Deliverables</b></p><ul><li><b>IT Infrastructure &amp; Cloud Architecture Design Assessment Reports</b> (Excel-based)</li><li><b>Updated SAMA CSF, ITGF, BCM, and KSA PDPL framework design assessments</b></li><li><b>Critical Technology Third-Party Design Assessment Report</b></li><li><b>Architecture &amp; Configuration Operational Effectiveness Reports</b></li></ul><p><b>Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>10+ years of experience in <b>IT infrastructure</b> and <b>cloud architecture assessment</b>, preferably within <b>banking or regulated industries</b>.</li><li>Deep knowledge of <b>SAMA</b>, <b>ITIL</b>, <b>COBIT</b>, and related regulatory and governance frameworks.</li><li>Proven experience in <b>gap analysis</b>, <b>risk assessment</b>, <b>remediation validation</b>, and <b>architecture optimization</b>.</li><li>Strong understanding of <b>cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP)</b> and hybrid deployment models.</li><li>Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Proven ability to deliver <b>clear, actionable recommendations</b> and comprehensive assessment documentation.</li></ul><p><b>What do we offer you?</b></p><ul><li>Attractive salary</li><li>Large freedom and real influence</li><li>No unhealthy competition, team approach to meeting challenges</li><li>Remote work model</li><li>Company apartments in cool cities across Europe: work and enjoy a memorable getaway</li></ul><p><b>About us</b></p><p>We are a software house with a 18-year history, a rich portfolio, projects all over the world and an appetite for more. We have built our brand on professionalism and flexibility in delivering software solutions. We are not afraid of unconventional ideas and value innovation and imaginative change.</p><p>Job Type: Full-time</p><p>Pay: Up to &#65020;600,000.00 per year</p><p>Experience:</p><ul><li>IT Infrastructure: 10 years (Required)</li><li>Cloud Architecture: 10 years (Required)</li></ul>

Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture Consultant [J236]

<div></div><div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Cloud Solution Architecture IC4</b></h1><div><div><p>
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</p></div></div><p></p><div><div><div><div><br>
Date posted</div><div><b>
Oct 28, 2025</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Job number</div><div><b>
1898433</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Work site</div><div><b>
Fully on-site</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Travel</div><div><b>
25-50</b><b> </b><b>%</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Role type</div><div><b>
Individual Contributor</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Profession</div><div><b>
Customer Success</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Discipline</div><div><b>
Cloud Solution Architecture</b></div></div></div><div><div><div>
Employment type</div><div><b>
Full-Time</b></div></div></div></div><div></div><div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Overview</b></h3><div><div>
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&amp;S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft&rsquo;s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers&rsquo; expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&amp;S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft&rsquo;s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&amp;S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.</div><div></div><div><br>
The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&amp;S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.</div><div><br>
The Cloud &amp; AI Infrastructure CSA is responsible for accelerating Azure adoption and enabling AI readiness at scale by delivering secure, resilient, and modernized cloud infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on:</div><div>
Migration &amp; Modernization: Leading customer engagements to migrate and modernize workloads, ensuring optimized architecture for performance, security, and cost-efficiency.<br>
AI-Ready Infrastructure: Preparing customers for production AI at scale by implementing robust infrastructure foundations and governance models.<br>
Unified Delivery Excellence: Driving delivery consistency across Unified accounts, contributing to Azure consumption plans, and ensuring completeness and accuracy of customer success plans.<br>
Risk Mitigation &amp; Compliance: Providing oversight for technical delivery, ensuring resiliency, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements.<br>
Innovation &amp; Repeatability: Developing and sharing repeatable IP and best practices to accelerate time-to-value and improve customer experience.</div><div></div><div><br>
This role is fully on-site.</div><div><br>
Microsoft&rsquo;s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.</div></div></div></div><div></div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Qualifications</b></h3><div><div>
Required (Minimum) Qualifications<br>
<ul><li>Education &amp; Experience
</li></ul>o Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field<br>
AND several of experience in:
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<ul><li>Cloud/infrastructure technologies</li><li>IT consulting/support</li><li>Systems administration</li><li>Network operations</li><li>Software development/support</li><li>Technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting</li></ul>
o OR equivalent experience in these areas.
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Preferred Qualifications<br>
<ul><li>Advanced Degree (Master&rsquo;s) with several years experience, or Bachelor&rsquo;s with several + years in cloud/infrastructure roles.</li><li>Proven track record in Azure migration, modernization, and resiliency projects.</li><li>Experience in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
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Certifications &amp; Technical Requirements<br>
<ul><li>Mandatory/Foundational
</li></ul>o AI Fundamentals (AI-900) or higher for AI fluency.<br>
<ul><li>Role-Aligned Advanced Certifications
</li></ul>o Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)<br>
o Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) (recommended for security depth)<br>
o Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)<br>
<ul><li>Additional Advantage
</li></ul>o Certifications in DevOps (AZ-400), Kubernetes (CKA), or multi-cloud platforms.
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Core Skills &amp; Competencies<br>
<ul><li>Technical Intensity: Deep expertise in Azure infrastructure, resiliency, and governance.</li><li>Consultative Skills: Opportunity identification, business acumen, and operational excellence.</li><li>Delivery Excellence: Ability to lead technical engagements and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.</li></ul></div></div></div></div><div></div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Responsibilities</b></h3><div><div>
Core Responsibilities of Cloud &amp; AI Infrastructure CSA (CSA GD)<br>
1. Drive Azure Consumption &amp; Modernization<br>
<ul><li>Lead migration and modernization of customer workloads to Azure, ensuring optimized architecture for performance, security, and cost.</li><li>Deliver AI-ready infrastructure to support large-scale AI adoption and innovation.
</li></ul>2. Unified Delivery &amp; Factory Oversight<br>
<ul><li>Ensure repeatable delivery across accounts to achieve targeted outcomes at each stage of the MCEM cycle.</li><li>Provide oversight for Unified and Factory engagements, ensuring delivery quality and customer satisfaction.
</li></ul>3. Technical Leadership &amp; Solution Plays<br>
<ul><li>Execute solution plays such as:
</li></ul>o Migrate and Modernize Your Estate<br>
o Unify Your Data Platform with Governance and Security<br>
o Innovate with Azure AI Apps and Agents<br>
<ul><li>Act as a technical orchestrator, aligning customer priorities with scalable cloud and AI solutions.
</li></ul>4. Risk Management &amp; Compliance<br>
<ul><li>Implement proactive resiliency and security measures for Azure environments.</li><li>Ensure compliance with regulatory and governance requirements during infrastructure transformation.
</li></ul>5. Customer Engagement &amp; Influence<br>
<ul><li>Own the Azure Consumption Plan, ensuring completeness and accuracy.</li><li>Collaborate with CSAMs and STU teams to drive next-best actions and generate incremental pipeline.</li><li>Serve as a trusted advisor for infrastructure and AI readiness.
</li></ul>6. Skilling &amp; IP Contribution<br>
<ul><li>Maintain technical intensity through certifications and role immersion programs.</li><li>Contribute to IP development and share best practices across the CSA community.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div></div><div><div><div><br>
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.</div></div><div><div><div>
&#60116;</div>Industry leading healthcare</div><div><div>
&#59326;</div>Educational resources</div><div><div>
&#59628;</div>Discounts on products and services</div><div><div>
&#60157;</div>Savings and investments</div><div><div>
&#63586;</div>Maternity and paternity leave</div><div><div>
&#59927;</div>Generous time away</div><div><div>
&#60241;</div>Giving programs</div><div><div>
&#61396;</div>Opportunities to network and connect</div></div></div><div></div><div><div><div>
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.</div></div></div></div><p></p>

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