Platform Architect (Tech Lead) | Riyadh, KSA | Onsite
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About the Role
TechTalent is hiring a Hands-on Platform Architect (Tech Lead) for a Big 4 project in Riyadh. The role owns technical architecture and engineering governance for shared services and BFF layers, requiring expertise in AI architecture, payment orchestration, and platform modernization.
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Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical direction for shared platform services including payments, communications, booking, digital identity, and AI enabled 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
Requirements
- Hands on experience as a Platform Architect or Tech Lead
- Experience with shared services and BFF layers
- Expertise in AI architecture patterns and integration
- Arabic and English language required
- Must already be based in KSA with valid residency/iqama
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Job Overview
- Hands on Platform Architect (Tech Lead) for a Big 4 project in Riyadh
- 6 month extendable contract
- 100% onsite – Riyadh
- Candidates must already be based in KSA with valid residency/iqama
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
Requirements
- Arabic and English Language required
- Candidates must already be based in KSA with valid residency/iqama
Terms
- 6 month extendable contract
- 100% onsite – Riyadh
- Candidates must already be based in KSA with valid residency/iqama
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