Solution Architect, Customer Experience

at  Liferay Inc

ABOUT LIFERAY

Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.
But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Native or similar level in Arabic, with conversational~business level English for internal communication
• Up to 30% travel
• 7+ years of direct sales engineering, technical pre-sales, or customer-facing experience with either a recognized software company or major consulting / SI firm
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or equivalent level of demonstrated experience
• Expertise in developing with Java, JavaScript, JSON, major databases, and related development frameworks in the enterprise software stack or digital experience platforms
• Advanced knowledge of containerization, orchestration, and related virtualization technologies (fluent in standards such as Kubernetes)
• Advanced understanding of enterprise Java, related design patterns, service-oriented architecture
• Strong experience working and tuning enterprise Java systems, especially application servers and databases.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills and a very strong motivation to help customers
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and meet aggressive deadlines during several months-long engineering and sales cycles
• Ability to thrive in a globally distributed organization

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Strong technical and business expertise and excellence in Liferay products, solution architecture, project scoping, features & capabilities, and all related consultation and development practices
• Strong experience with enterprise security and identity management systems
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, other search integration
• Strong experience in one or multiple domains and related use cases for industries such as commerce, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, information technology & high tech, insurance, manufacturing, military & defense, retail, telecom, transportation
• Experience with OSGi
  The role can be located in Dubai or Abu Dhabi (UAE) or Riyadh (KSA).

ABOUT YOU AND THIS ROLE

We are looking for an individual that will work in Liferay’s Customer Experience department as a trusted technical advisor for strategic accounts. The Solution Architect delivers guidance to customers and partners on Liferay general systems architecture, systems integrations, development best practices, features and functionality expertise, as well as issues resolution assistance.
The ideal Solution Architect loves learning new technology, has delivered full lifecycle projects, and is both highly technical and able to drive client-facing meetings. They are comfortable consulting with a range of roles and levels from senior software engineers and information security directors to C-suite executives.
Your support of customers and partners are a critical part of the strategy to make projects successful leading to happy customers that grow and expand with Liferay.