Platform Architect (Tech Lead) | Riyadh, KSA | Onsite

Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical direction for shared platform services, including payments, communications, booking, digital identity, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.
• Govern and improve the BFF layer across mobile and digital channels.
• Act as the hands-on technical authority across platform engineering streams.
• Review and approve technical solutions, designs, integrations, and implementation approaches.
• Design payment orchestration and booking orchestration patterns and integration strategies.
• Define AI architecture patterns, integration standards, and governance for AI-enabled services and workflows.
• Support adoption of AI capabilities across the platform, including automation, copilots, orchestration, and intelligent customer experiences.
• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and platform modernization roadmap.
• Identify architecture gaps, scalability risks, technical debt, and platform improvement opportunities.
• Plan and drive architecture improvements and platform engineering initiatives.
• Define resiliency standards and governance across services, including failover strategies, retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, redundancy, and recovery patterns.
• Define observability standards across the platform, including telemetry, logging, tracing, dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, metrics, and alerting requirements.
• Govern implementation of monitoring dashboards and operational visibility across all platform domains and critical services.
• Ensure meaningful operational metrics and proactive alerting are implemented to support reliability, incident management, and platform health monitoring.
• Establish architecture governance processes, technical standards, engineering best practices, and design review processes.
• Work hands-on with engineering teams on architecture, API design, integrations, data flows, troubleshooting, and complex technical challenges.
• Support engineering teams in delivery execution, technical decision-making, and resolving blockers.
• Ensure platform consistency, reusability, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence across all services and domains.
• Arabic and English Language required

Terms

• 6-month extendable contract
• 100% onsite – Riyadh
• Candidates must already be based in KSA with valid residency/iqama

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary, Contract

Application Question(S)

• What is your notice period / earliest joining date?
• Do you have your own valid Saudi iqama, that you can work on (no iqama sponsorship is offered)?
• How many years of experience do you have in Platform Architecture?
• Do you have hands-on experience with technical authority across platform engineering streams?
• Have you worked with AI architecture patterns, integration standards, and governance for AI-enabled services and workflows?