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Senior Azure Architect (m/f/d)

Permanent

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

03.06.2026

A leading global technology solutions provider specializing in cloud services and digital transformation is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Technical Project Manager who will be responsible for managing and expanding relationships with our largest enterprise clients, driving the adoption and success of our cloud-based solutions. You will act as a trusted advisor to your accounts, understanding their business goals and aligning the organization’s services to meet their needs.

Senior Azure Architect
Job Summary
The Senior Azure Architect is responsible for designing and architecting end-to-end Azure solutions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, and managed services engagements. This role owns target-state architecture, produces high-level and low-level designs, leads architecture reviews, and ensures solutions are practical, scalable, secure, compliant, and cost-effective.
Core Design & Architecture Responsibilities

Design and architect end-to-end Azure solutions that define the proposed products, services, delivery model, and target-state architecture.
Produce high-level designs (HLD), low-level designs (LLD), architecture diagrams, and detailed technical documentation for complex enterprise solutions.
Translate business, operational, security, and compliance requirements into practical, maintainable, scalable, and cost-effective Azure architectures.
Design multi-tier application and infrastructure platforms on Azure, including enhancements and redesigns of existing services.
Define Azure landing zone, subscription, identity, governance, and network architecture patterns aligned to enterprise standards.
Create and maintain architecture artefacts, standards, reusable patterns, and infrastructure repositories across the architecture lifecycle.

Migration, Hybrid Cloud & Platform Responsibilities

Act as solution architect for large migration programs, with architect-level experience in projects involving at least 200+ nodes.
Apply Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles and migration best practices across discovery, assessment, landing zone readiness, migration planning, and cutover.
Design Azure network architectures for migrating on-premises workloads, including connectivity, routing, segmentation, firewalling, load balancing, and hybrid integration.
Architect complete IaaS stacks on public and private cloud platforms, including compute, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security services.
Support hybrid platform scenarios involving Azure, Azure Stack, VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack environments.

Technical Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

Participate in architecture design reviews, governance boards, and technical forums, representing the infrastructure architecture function across multiple projects.
Provide technical leadership to delivery, operations, security, and engineering teams during solution implementation and service transition.
Guide teams on architectural best practices, design standards, governance controls, risk management, and technology selection.
Engage customers, internal stakeholders, and project teams in workshops, design discussions, solution reviews, and decision-making sessions.

Required Technical Skills

Skill Area	Requirement
Azure Architecture	Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, architecture patterns, and Azure portal / control plane capabilities.
Design Documentation	Ability to create HLD and LLD documents for infrastructure, platform, migration, and hybrid cloud environments.
Virtualization & Hybrid	Good understanding of VMware or Hyper-V; exposure to Azure Stack or OpenStack is preferred.
Networking	Sound understanding of routing, firewalls, L2/L3 switches, load balancers, and Azure network design for enterprise workloads.
Automation & IaC	Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Ansible, and Azure DevOps.
DevOps & Delivery	Good knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD toolchains such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, and Spinnaker.
Governance & Compliance	Understanding of governance, compliance, and risk frameworks adopted across enterprise and regulated industries.

Qualifications & Experience

10+ years of technical experience, including solution design and architecture responsibilities.
At least 6 years of customer-facing, consulting, or professional services experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Strong communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to lead workshops, architecture discussions, migration planning sessions, and solution review meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Experience with enterprise landing zones, governance models, cost optimization, and security baselines.
Exposure to large-scale migration, modernization, and transformation programs across multiple projects or customers.

Halian Group: With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers. Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together. At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve. #LI-JJ1

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