Solution Architect - Cloud (GCP)

Globant — Riyadh, KSA

Employment type: Contract

Level:SME 3-4 Solution Architect. Needs strong technical leadership experience.Location:Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (on-site). Remote for Alternative locations: Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Egypt — with regular travel to Riyadh required.

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a seasoned Solution Architect who shares our passion for innovation and change for an immediate consulting contract. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers' personalized expectations in this new technological era.

This role is responsible for leading cloud architecture strategy across the organisation. The architect designs multi cloud and GCP centred solutions, drives automation and DevOps practices, and ensures cloud security, reliability, and cost effectiveness. The role requires broad architectural understanding across multiple disciplines alongside deep expertise in cloud technologies.

• Define multi cloud architecture strategy aligned with business goals

  
  

• Design scalable and reliable cloud solutions across GCP and other platforms

  
  

• Lead cloud infrastructure design and cost optimisation

  
  

• Define DevOps practices, CI and CD pipelines, and automation methodology

  
  

• Architect API gateway infrastructure using Apigee

  
  

• Design CDN and edge strategies using Cloudflare

  
  

• Define containerisation and orchestration strategies

  
  

• Establish Infrastructure as Code standards

  
  

• Define observability practices including logging and monitoring

  
  

• Ensure cloud security, governance, and compliance

  
  

• Design disaster recovery and business continuity approaches

  
  

• Define shared cloud services and platform components

  
  

• Lead cloud modernisation and technical debt reduction

  
  

• Mentor teams in cloud engineering and best practice

  
  

• Evaluate cloud services and emerging technologies

  
  

• Produce and maintain cloud architecture documentation

  
  

• Present cloud architecture decisions to senior stakeholders

  
  

• Improved scalability, reliability, and security of cloud platforms

  
  

• Reduced cloud spend through optimisation and governance

  
  

• Mature DevOps and automation practices across teams

  
  

• Consistent cloud patterns and reusable components

  
  

• Facilitate multi team architecture and platform design workshops

  
  

• Guide complex decisions during high risk changes

  
  

• Work with engineering, security, product, and operations to address cross cutting challenges

  
  

• Support teams in adopting cloud native and DevOps practices

  
  

• Communicate cloud strategies clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders

  
  

• Produce high quality diagrams, documentation, and models

  
  

• Present cloud decisions and trade offs transparently

  
  

• Influence senior leaders on technology direction and investment

  
  

• Understanding of domain driven design

  
  

• Awareness of integration patterns

  
  

• Understanding of fundamental data architecture concepts

  
  

• Awareness of cyber security principles and cloud security best practice

  
  

• Understanding of DevOps and platform engineering approaches

  
  

• Ability to define and assess non functional requirements

  
  

• Ability to balance cost, performance, resilience, and maintainability

  
  

• Ability to evaluate vendor and third party technologies

  
  

• Contribute to architectural standards, patterns, and governance

  
  

• Participate in architecture reviews and forums

  
  

• Support development of cloud and platform roadmaps

  
  

• Produce consistent and clear cloud architecture artefacts

  
  

• Share reusable patterns and guidance across teams

  
  

• Acts as technical authority for cloud architecture

  
  

• Owns cloud standards, frameworks, and practices

  
  

• Responsible for long term cloud strategy and direction

  
  

• Makes informed decisions balancing short term delivery and long term strategy

  
  

• Advanced GCP expertise

  
  

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or OCI

  
  

• Apigee