Principal Architect

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.
- Rackspace has been commissioned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to assure the build of a sovereign multi tenant private cloud that we have designed. Under contract Rackspace will fulfil 3 strategic functions, led by the Delivery Director, as part of a 3 year programme, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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**Design and Build Assurance** - Overseeing the plans, schedule and build of 20 vendors, individually deploying to install and configure their infrastructure, according to the schedule and standards laid down by Rackspace

**_ 2. _**
**CMP Development** - Designing, Building and releasing MVPs into service which allow firstly administration functions to be created and utilised, leveraging automation, and subsequently building in further automation and service controls

**_ 3. _**
**Strategic Advisory** - Against a designed TOM laid down by Rackspace, supporting the mobilisation of resources, executing a training strategy, and providing expertise to build out the cloud management office
- Rackspace has a deep seated technical background, and is one of the few organisations that allows engineers to progress to the most senior organisational posts in the corporation. Our solutions engage service, migration factory, security and changes, amongst other departments and speciality skills to build a high quality infrastructure and a solution that enables sustainable and scalable control and administration. Over the last 2 decades Rackspace has applied its continuous improvement policies to deliver holistic, people, process and tech solutions.

**Role Overview**:

- Customer facing role designing and developing solutions for large-scale cloud
- based services. Adheres to established coding and process best practices. Uses and contributes to architectural standards and best practices. Motivates and provides technical leadership to team members in project initiatives to contribute their best. Drives and coordinates research, proof of concept and/or prototype works by project team members. Drives quality improvement initiatives.
- Technical management of project resource to ensure quality output and mentoring for success and career development of less senior technical staff.
- Views any project as a part of a larger, company-wide architecture and being able secure necessary collaboration to deliver success, both for the company and the project. Maintains a collaborative working relationship with others by seeking, using and giving feedback. Open to and values diverged thinking, ideas and opinions from others and being able to manage any healthy contention.
- Shows own conviction in project ideas without shutting out others’ ideas. Appeals for support from others with data and facts. Anticipates and manages reaction from others. Influenced a paradigm shift in others as necessary in order to gain support for complex ideas and solutions.
- Operates in a highly strategic manner, highly consultative approach with the largest, most complex customers and prospects. Aligns customer business strategies and IT architecture utilising Rackspace Intellectual capital and regularly provides feedback for enhancements. Works closely with senior leadership of client organizations as well as key technical personnel.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Architects new product and service offerings.
- Builds strategy and processes that enable information sharing appeals for support from others with data and facts.
- Anticipates and manages reaction from others.
- Influences a paradigm shift in others as necessary in order to gain support for complex ideas and solutions.
- Works regularly with other leaders within our business unit to refine and expand the technical part of our offerings.
- Consult teams in overcoming technology or architectural obstacles to implement new technologies or products solutions.
- Publish technical papers to field of expertise.
- Collaborates with leaders and technical personnel to facilitate complex, innovative, and often nonstandard service offerings.
- Provides industry thought leadership through business relationships, publications, and presentations.
- Decisions impact the direction of and resource allocation for unit operations and could impact overall business activities.
- Contributes to cross-functional Rackspace initiatives.
- Supports major business projects which impact a region or entire function.
- Solves problems at strategic level for groups across business.
- Provides architecture and support strategic vision across multiple