Brainlake
Chief Digital Architect
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 11/12/2025
Job overview
Date posted
27/10/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
VP/Executive
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
11/12/2025
Job description
The Chief Digital Architect leads the architecture vision and governance for a multi-brand digital ecosystem, defining how customer-facing platforms, data, and Gen-AI applications converge to deliver next-generation experiences. Acting as the overall architecture authority, the role aligns strategy and execution across digital, web, mobile, loyalty, integration, and cloud, collaborating with Enterprise, Cloud, and Solution Architects to design a cohesive, scalable, and secure landscape. Responsibilities include mapping and documenting current-state architecture across all digital domains; leading architecture reviews of key customer journeys and technology layers; and designing target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for web, mobile, loyalty, data, integration, and cloud workstreams. The position ensures architectural coherence across Gen-AI, cloud-native, and CX applications, and drives design reviews, documentation standards, and governance processes. The ideal candidate brings 12+ years building and delivering customer-facing digital applications (web and mobile), deep expertise with MDM, CDP, CXP, CMS, DAM, and loyalty platforms, hands-on experience with cloud-native solutions on Azure or GCP, experience building and deploying Gen-AI solutions, strong knowledge of software architecture styles, microservices, and DevSecOps, exposure to multi-tenancy and FinOps in scalable cloud environments, leadership of architecture teams and collaboration with delivery squads, and a broad understanding of retail and e-commerce ecosystems with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Act as the Chief Architect for the enterprise digital landscape, setting architecture vision and authority across brands.
- Coordinate across Solution, Cloud, and Enterprise Architecture teams to align strategy and execution.
- Map and document the current-state architecture across digital domains including web, mobile, loyalty, data, integration, and cloud.
- Lead architecture reviews of key customer journeys and technology layers to ensure scalability, security, and performance.
- Design target-state architectures and define transition roadmaps for platforms and workstreams.
- Define architecture for digital workstreams (web, mobile, loyalty, data, integration, cloud) ensuring end-to-end coherence.
- Ensure architectural consistency across Gen-AI, cloud-native, and customer experience applications.
- Drive design reviews, establish documentation standards, and enforce architecture governance processes.
Experience & skills
- Minimum 12+ years building and delivering customer-facing digital applications (web and mobile).
- Expertise in MDM, CDP, CXP, CMS, DAM, and loyalty platforms.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native applications on Azure or GCP.
- Proven experience building and deploying Generative AI solutions.
- Strong understanding of software architecture styles, microservices, and DevSecOps.
- Exposure to multi-tenancy and FinOps in scalable cloud environments.
- Experience leading architecture teams and collaborating with delivery squads.
- Broad understanding of retail and e-commerce ecosystems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
