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4,999 Employee \n\nEnvironment:\n\nIn-office \n\nContract Type:\n\nPermanent \n\nStarts:\n\n2026-08-24 \n\nIqama: Must hold transferable Iqama\nI am currently supporting a leading organization in Riyadh that is looking to hire a Senior Azure Architect on a permanent basis.\nThis is an excellent opportunity for an experienced cloud architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized Azure solutions for enterprise and banking customers.\nThe successful candidate will take ownership of end-to-end cloud solution architecture, covering landing zone design, governance, hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, workload migration and modernization, security and compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery, and technical leadership from design through to implementation and operational transition.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn end-to-end Azure cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements\nDesign secure, scalable, and highly available Azure environments, including landing zones, subscription structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance\nTranslate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps\nLead design discussions across migration, modernisation, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience\nWork closely with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue and risk resolution\nEnsure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, particularly for banking and regulated environments\nSupport technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions\nContribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required\nGuide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns\nMentor engineers and architects while helping to establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices\nKey Skills & Experience Required:\nStrong Azure architecture experience across enterprise-scale cloud environments\nDeep knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, and Entra ID integration\nStrong Azure networking experience, including VNets, peering, Private Link, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancer concepts\nExperience across Azure compute, storage, PaaS data services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery\nProven experience producing high-level and low-level design documentation\nStrong understanding of cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover\nFamiliarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripting, and CI/CD principles\nStrong stakeholder management, customer-facing communication, and technical leadership skills\nPrevious experience working with banking, financial services, or regulated customers would be highly beneficial\nThis role would suit a senior Azure Architect who is comfortable operating in customer-facing environments and leading complex cloud architecture engagements from strategy and design through to delivery.\nPlease apply or reach out directly to discuss the opportunity in more detail.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3613,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T22:01:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.39,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":83,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-azure-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-azure-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T22:06:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4796,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":204,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}