Senior Presales Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect

About this opportunity

E-portal is actively recruiting for the role of Senior Presales Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect. In this role, you will be the lead client-facing architect for complex multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and cloud-modernization opportunities. You will be responsible for owning the end-to-end technical sales cycle from discovery to proposal and handover, ensuring that every proposed solution is commercially credible, delivery-ready, secure by design, and aligned to customer business outcomes rather than only to infrastructure features. Roles and Responsibilities: Lead discovery workshops with CIOs, CTOs, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business sponsors to define business outcomes, regulatory constraints, latency requirements, resilience targets, data residency needs, and workload placement rules. Design hybrid and multi-cloud target architectures covering landing zones, identity, connectivity, network topology, observability, backup, disaster recovery, governance, and cost management. Build migration and modernisation roadmaps for legacy applications, databases, virtualised estates, and containerised platforms. Lead technical bid responses, reference architectures, architecture review boards, solution walkthroughs, and proof-of-concept or pilot planning. Work closely with sales, alliances, delivery, and vendor teams to build accurate BoQ, licensing assumptions, services scope, migration effort estimates, and transition plans. Ensure every won opportunity has a high-quality handover package including assumptions, dependencies, risks, integration points, security requirements, and acceptance criteria. To be considered for this role, you must meet the below minimum criteria: A minimum of 11 years' experience in multi-cloud architecture, cloud migration, platform engineering, or enterprise infrastructure modernization, with at least several years in customer-facing presales or consulting roles. Strong experience in regulated or mission-critical sectors in Kuwait or the GCC is preferred. Must have at least one of these certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional, and Red Hat Certified Architect in OpenShift. A bachelor's degree. A master's degree is a plus. Majors required include: cloud computing, enterprise architecture, business information systems, or technology management.