E2E Core and Cloud Solution Architect

As an End-to-End Solution Architect, you will own the technical solution view across Packet Core, telco cloud, and adjacent Core Network domains. You will translate customer business and technology needs into secure, scalable, commercially viable, and deliverable end-to-end solutions.

You will operate at the intersection of customer strategy, technology, commercial development, and delivery. You will lead architecture and solution discussions with customers, guide multidisciplinary solution teams, shape technical proposals, and ensure that the proposed solution can be successfully implemented, integrated, accepted, operated, and evolved through its lifecycle. Lead the design stages in the delivery of critical program and outline both high and low level design.

The role requires both breadth and depth: depth in Packet Core and cloud-native architectures, together with the ability to connect these domains with IMS and Communication Services, BSS/OSS, orchestration, automation, transport, security, and operational processes.

Engage customer stakeholders to understand business drivers, network strategy, pain points, and transformation priorities, translating these into a clear solution vision, technical scope, and value proposition.

Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions, clearly communicating architectural choices, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.

Act as the senior technical point of contact throughout presales and solution shaping, ensuring alignment across the customer, Ericsson teams, partners, and suppliers.

Define the end-to-end architecture for Core Network solutions, including solution concepts, high- and low-level designs, interfaces, deployment models, data flows, and non-functional requirements.

Evaluate architectural options and recommend solutions that balance customer value, technical feasibility, performance, resilience, security, operational simplicity, and cost.

Collaborate with architects, Product Management, R&D, Delivery, Operations, and partners to maximize reuse and avoid unnecessary complexity.

Shape solutions across 4G EPC, 5G Core, dual-mode 5G Core, Packet Core, interworking, mobility, policy, subscriber data, signaling, and user-plane functions .

Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CNFs/VNFs, CaaS, automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management across central, regional, edge, and distributed cloud environments.

Ensure solutions address infrastructure, applications, security, observability, resilience, scaling, upgrades, rollback, and operational readiness as an integrated system.

Work as part of the Core 3 and sales teams to translate customer needs into technically robust and commercially viable solutions and proposals.

Develop solution scope, technical value propositions, differentiators, assumptions, risks, acceptance criteria, and supporting technical documentation.

Ensure proposed solutions align with Ericsson portfolio capabilities, delivery models, commercial commitments, and customer expectations.

Support the transition from presales through design, integration, deployment, acceptance, and operations, providing architectural guidance and technical governance throughout.

Manage key architectural risks and ensure technical decisions remain aligned with customer requirements.

Support upgrades, migrations, modernization, capacity growth, and automation while capturing lessons learned and providing feedback to R&D and portfolio teams.

End-to-end systems thinking

Customer and stakeholder engagement

Solution and architecture design

Technical sales and value argumentation

Commercial and business acumen

Strategic thinking and technology foresight

Critical thinking and structured problem solving

Negotiation and influencing

Decision-making under uncertainty

Delivery orientation and accountability

Collaboration across organizational boundaries

Coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing

Clear technical communication and executive storytelling

Why join Ericsson? At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next. What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: Saudi Arabia (SA) || Riyadh

Req ID: 790122