Principal Enterprise Architect

Job description

We are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Your role will be to guide architecture through the transformation lifecycle, build executive confidence, govern design decisions, lead architecture build, and ensure technology choices support long-term value. You will design target architectures, plan transitions, and create decommissioning strategies. You will use change management frameworks such as ADKAR to support adoption and sustainability.

Requirements

• Proven experience providing enterprise architecture leadership across large-scale transformation programmes
• strong grounding in TOGAF principles and lifecycle-based architecture governance
• broad understanding of digital marketing, data, and activation ecosystems
• the ability to craft compelling narratives that translate architectural choices into business-relevant results and messages suitable for executives
• experience operating as a trusted architectural advisor to senior executives
• strong understanding of AI, automation, and emerging agentic models, and their implications for enterprise platforms
• experience working closely with delivery teams, partners, and vendors to maintain build integrity
• ability to apply structured change and adoption approaches (including ADKAR) to support the human and organisational aspects of architectural evolution
• a collaborative, outcome-focused leadership style, with a relentless focus on value and adoption
• fluency in English is required.

Skills