About this opportunity:The Market Area Europe, Middle East and Africa offers a diverse and dynamic environment at the forefront of 5G innovation, with Ericsson’s Networks organization leading in thought leadership and value argumentation across more than 100 countries.
We are looking for a Pre-Sales Solution Architect specializing in Mission Critical Networks (MCN) and Push-to-Talk (PTT) solutions. Reporting to the Head of Network Solutions, you will shape secure, scalable, and commercially compelling solutions with sales, product management, delivery teams, and customers.
As a trusted technical advisor, you will lead solution design, customer engagements, demonstrations, workshops, and proposals. A key focus will be Mission Critical Services, with strong expertise in MCPTT architecture, standards, service workflows, priorities, group communication, dispatching, control-room operations, field-user integration, and eMBMS for efficient group and broadcast communication.
You will support business growth while ensuring cross-domain alignment, delivery leadership, and effective risk management across a highly collaborative environment. Strong technical depth in MCPTT services, transport networking, and solution integration is essential
What you will do:
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture across application, transport, access, cloud, infrastructure, and core network domains.
- Design and optimize solutions for scalability, resilience, service continuity, performance, and secure connectivity.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor in customer engagements, workshops, demonstrations, proposals, and executive discussions.
- Drive cross-functional and multi-vendor integration, ensuring interface alignment, interoperability, and end-to-end service assurance.
- Coordinate technical plans, dependencies, sequencing, risks, and mitigation actions across multiple domains.
- Translate customer requirements and constraints into tailored, commercially compelling solutions while supporting business growth.
The skills you bring:
- * Strong expertise in MCPTT architecture, standards, service workflows, priorities, group communication, dispatching, control-room operations, field-user integration, and mission-critical requirements.
- Knowledge of eMBMS for group and broadcast communication and network-efficiency optimization.
- Strong IP networking skills, including routing and switching, traffic engineering, QoS, redundancy, latency, isolation, backhaul, fronthaul, and secure transport architectures.
- Understanding of device ecosystems, provisioning, lifecycle management, MDM solutions, security enforcement, and application control.
- Knowledge of cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containerization, orchestration, data centers, cabling, power, and connectivity.
- Understanding of BSS integrations such as Active Directory, billing, mediation, and provisioning, together with core-network domains including Packet Core, DNS, APN, and PCRF/QoS enforcement.
- Awareness of RAN dependencies and their impact on service performance and coverage, including satellite communication integration with terrestrial networks.
- Strong customer-facing communication, presentation, solution-justification, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
- Experience designing and assessing complex, resilient, end-to-end mission-critical network solutions.
- Experience with testing and validation tools such as VIAVI and MiW, including KPI validation, performance verification, troubleshooting, and service-assurance methodologies.
- Proven experience managing multi-vendor ecosystems involving application providers, device vendors, infrastructure suppliers, and testing-tool providers.
- Experience managing interdependencies between MCPTT, dispatching systems, MDM platforms, core and RAN domains, and testing and assurance tools.
- Experience leading technical planning, risk management, customized solution development, and delivery alignment across customer, vendor, and internal teams.
- Experience presenting complex technical solutions in a structured, clear, and business-oriented manner to stakeholders ranging from technical teams to executive management.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Saudi Arabia (SA) || Riyadh
Req ID: 791670
