Solutions Architecture Consultant - Large Enterprises - Sr. Manager

We are looking for a skilled professional with 12-18 years of experience to join our team as a Solutions Architecture Consultant in the MENA region. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in consulting, delivery, and technical skills. ### Roles and Responsibility Provide advice on long-term Solution/Enterprise architecture decisions to clients' senior management. Build and develop the Solution/Enterprise Architecting capability through proactive engagement with EY practice teams, partners, and clients. Perform sales, pre-sales, and business development activities, including responding to RFPs/RFIs, delivering oral pitches, and negotiating contracts. Plan and run workshops for clients' Business and Technology Executives, involving client partners and vendors exclusively on Solution Architecture. Collaborate with professionals spanning strategy, business, application, infrastructure, security, and data architecture disciplines to accelerate clients' enterprise architecture maturity definition and transformation journey. Develop technical and commercial business cases for clients to invest in technology, tools, infrastructure, and people capabilities, and present them at various levels of the client organization aligned with their enterprise architecture roadmap. Engage with various technology vendors, start-ups, and service providers to evaluate them on behalf of clients and provide recommendations. Anticipate and understand major technology changes and digital trends to enable clients to succeed in a competitive landscape. Set up and actively develop an Architecture CoE covering EA, Business Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Security Architecture, and Data Architecture. Interface and communicate regularly with onsite and/or offshore stakeholders and coordinators to ensure smooth execution of responsibilities and demonstrate value. Ensure timely completion of assigned tasks within budget and at the highest quality, providing regular status reporting to clients, managers, and leadership. ### Job Requirements B.Tech./MCA from a reputed institution. Extensive consulting and delivery experience in Big4s, Global IT Majors, Management Consulting firms. Experience in performing the role of technical owner/co-owner for large IT transformation projects. At least 5 years of experience in architecting and leading the implementation of medium/large solutions across on-premise and Cloud solutions (Azure, GCP, AWS, Oracle), Microsoft, Java, Python/R, and other major application development platforms, XD/UI/UX Frameworks, Micro-services, integration architecting (including Biztalk, Mulesoft, Software AG, Boomi), BPM/BPA tools, Security (Application/Data), OT/IOT systems. Good understanding and exposure to large platforms and systems, including major ERPs, CRMs, Digital, AI/GenAI, Cloud and Data Platforms, Service Management Platforms like ServiceNow/BMC Remedy, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS providers, leading Core Banking Systems, Automation technologies. Possess good understanding and exposure to SOA, Agile delivery, DevOps, DevSecOps, and industry-standard delivery and quality frameworks. Excellent client interfacing, people interfacing, negotiation, and management skills. An excellent team player who can reach out and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed technology, business function, and support teams to deliver to the client. Open to traveling extensively to the MENA region and working directly with EY clients on projects. Experience in creating and conducting impactful client presentations and articulating technical and non-technical deliverables to clients at various levels. Experience in running physical and virtual workshops independently and well-versed with tools and technologies to enable the same. Demonstrable professional technical writing expertise, visual representation, and language skills. Experienced in productivity and diagramming tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio. Experience in working with clients in MENA GCC countries is desirable. Enterprise Architecture Certification such as TOGAF is desirable. Experience in enterprise architecture tools is desirable.