Senior Director - Digital Architecture
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia · Full Time
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- Experience
- 12+ yrs
- Salary
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- Openings
- 1
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
- Work mode
- In office
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in MIS or related field
- Eligibility
- Experienced professionals with 12+ years in enterprise or digital architecture, especially those with expertise in Adobe AEM/AEP, e-commerce, identity, payments, integration architecture, and vendor governance. Candidates should hold a bachelor’s degree in MIS or a related field.
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Job description
Role Summary
This position serves as the top technical authority for Qiddiya’s digital landscape, guiding how the enterprise designs, governs, and evolves its architecture. The focus is on building solutions that can scale, remain secure, be reused across teams, control costs, and stay closely tied to the broader strategic technology plan.
The role also leads the Architecture Centre of Excellence within Digital & CE and provides matrix leadership to solution architects working across products, platforms, CRM, MarTech, commerce, and in-destination systems.
It is a pivotal position in shaping the wider digital ecosystem, covering areas such as e-commerce, Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM and AEP), identity, payments, and omnichannel experiences, while maintaining consistency, reliability, and strong governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Set the direction for Qiddiya’s enterprise digital architecture and ensure it remains aligned with the organization’s technology strategy.
- Head the Architecture Centre of Excellence, strengthening capability and maintaining a consistent approach across matrixed solution architects.
- Serve as the design authority for reviewing and approving solution designs, platform modifications, and technical risk mitigation plans.
- Apply architecture standards, security controls, integration rules, and scalability targets across digital initiatives.
- Guide the development of core platforms, including e-commerce, Adobe AEM/AEP, CRM, identity, payments, and shared platform services.
- Promote API-first, modular, cloud-native, and event-driven architectural patterns.
- Oversee system integrator and vendor delivery to confirm alignment with approved architecture and governance requirements.
- Make balanced decisions that support delivery speed while protecting long-term maintainability, efficiency, technical quality, and reuse.
- Work closely with Product, DevSecOps, CRM, MarTech, and Digital Platforms leaders to coordinate dependencies and release planning.
- Review emerging technologies, including AI-enabled automation and enhanced customer engagement solutions.
Requirements
- At least 12 years of experience in enterprise or digital architecture roles within large-scale consumer or destination-focused environments.
- Strong depth in Adobe AEM SaaS and Adobe Experience Platform, including AEP/CDP, Target, and Campaign.
- Proven e-commerce architecture background, especially across payment and identity services.
- Practical technical credibility in modern integration approaches, API security, and cloud engineering.
- Experience leading matrixed teams and developing technical talent through coaching and guidance.
- Excellent communication and executive-level presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders without formal authority.
- Experience overseeing system integrators and vendors to ensure design governance and high-quality delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in MIS or a closely related discipline.
Benefits
A comprehensive compensation and benefits package is offered for this role.
Additional Information
This is an onsite full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.