Enterprise Architect
Archisurance is expanding its Architecture & AI practice and is looking for a seasoned Enterprise Architect to guide our clients through large-scale digital and AI-driven transformation. If you enjoy turning complex estates into strategic assets and want to work with high-impact organisations across the Middle East, Africa and beyond, we’d love to hear from you.
Department: Architecture & AI Consulting
Project Location(s): Riyadh
Education: BS / BSc / MSc / MBA
Compensation: Market-competitive salary
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end enterprise-architecture engagement: discovery, capability mapping, target-state definition and roadmap.
- Produce high-quality artefacts—business, application, data, technology and security views—using ArchiMate or Sparx EA.
- Establish or refine architecture-governance forums, principles and decision-making processes.
- Embed AI-readiness: data-fabric patterns, MLOps guard-rails and responsible-AI controls.
- Lead cloud-migration assessments (AWS / Azure) and define interim architectures for phased modernisation.
- Facilitate C-suite and stakeholder workshops to align strategy, investment and risk.
- Mentor solution architects and client teams; contribute to Archisurance knowledge libraries and pre-sales proposals.
Skills/Experience
- 8+ years in enterprise or solution architecture across multiple domains; TOGAF or equivalent certification preferred.
- Proven track record designing target architectures and operating models for financial-services or other highly-regulated sectors.
- Depth in cloud platforms, API management, micro-services and integration patterns.
- Familiarity with AI / data-platform components (feature stores, vector DBs, model registries) a strong plus.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and presentation skills; able to translate technical vision into board-level outcomes.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to prioritise trade-offs between speed, cost and risk.
- Comfortable leading distributed teams and working across cultures; business-level English (Arabic a plus).
- Positive, “can-do” attitude with personal accountability and a commitment to continuous learning.