Atos

Presales Principal Architect

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2 days ago
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer and CXO-level technology visioning, transformation strategy, SMART objectives, and program charter development.
  • Define and govern business, technical, data, and security enterprise architectures using frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman.
  • Conduct feasibility analysis, Greenfield/Brownfield assessments, 6R modernization analysis, and MVP-based roadmap planning.
  • Develop multi-year business cases, TCO and ROI analyses, wave-based rollout plans, and architectural blueprints.
  • Partner with account executives, sales leaders, sales engineers, internal teams, and technology partners to win and deliver strategic contracts.
  • Lead customer requirements gathering and RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses with end-to-end solutions aligned to commercial and technical objectives.
  • Support proof-of-concepts, technical workshops, solution validation, customer presentations, and solution sizing.
  • Design multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, sovereign cloud, infrastructure, platform, data center, edge, network, security, and observability architectures.
  • Ensure proposed solutions meet applicable security, regulatory, and industry standards throughout the solution lifecycle.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in information technology, including more than five years in senior architecture roles.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise solutions and engaging CXO-level and executive stakeholders.
  • In-depth experience with public sector, government, energy, and financial services organizations, particularly in the KSA market.
  • Expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, including landing zones, governance, and sovereign cloud.
  • Strong experience with cloud migration and modernization strategies including rehost, replatform, and refactor.
  • Experience designing infrastructure and platform engineering solutions across compute, storage, networking, data centers, edge, and hybrid environments.
  • Knowledge of managed cloud services, CloudOps, observability, automation, AIOps, autonomous operations, DevOps, FinOps, and SecOps.
  • Experience with AI-driven infrastructure, predictive operations, anomaly detection, remediation, IT/OT convergence, and real-time analytics.
  • Knowledge of network transformation, data-center fabric, zero trust, secure connectivity, and comprehensive infrastructure security strategies.
  • Ability to create architectural documentation, business cases, proposals, roadmaps, and security models aligned with ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, PDPL, CCRF, and NCA requirements.
  • Strong customer relationship management, technical advisory, innovation, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Saudi nationals are preferred.

Benefits

  • The role is part of Atos KSA/MET's growth and execution framework and focuses on customers in the KSA market.
  • Atos states that diversity and inclusion are embedded in its work environment.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Atos

10,000+ employees

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 56,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion (at the go-forward perimeter), operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris. Atos is the services brand of Atos Group, delivering AI powered, secure and end to end digital services to public and private organizations worldwide. Atos designs, builds and run digital environments that are critical to performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping clients keep control of their data, infrastructure and compliance, with clear accountability from strategy to operations. With more than 54,000 people serving 4,500+ clients in 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity and enable secure digital workplaces, delivering impact for clients, employees and society at large. Atos offers end-to-end IT services across the cloud, cybersecurity, data and AI, application services, smart platforms and digital workplace, as well as localized consulting and advisory services under its brand Atos Amplify. Atos is trusted to operate complex, business-critical environments, especially in regulated and sovereign contexts.

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