Solutions Architect

Solution Architect

AdTech Platform --- On-Premises Build & Delivery

Start: Immediate / aligned to project kickoff (Month 1).

• Location: UAE-based preferred; hybrid working with on-site presence required for kickoff, UAT, deployment and handover milestones.

• Working Hours: Overlapping with UAE business hours (GST / GMT+4). • Reporting Line: Programme Director, Platform Delivery.

• Key Collaborators: Engineering Leads (SSP / DSP / Ad Server / Ops Portal), Product Owner, Ad Operations Lead, Infrastructure Lead, Security Lead, Client Architecture Council.

Role Summary

The Solution Architect will own the end-to-end technical architecture of the platform from blueprint through go live. This is a senior, hands-on architect role combining deep Ad-Tech and programmatic domain expertise with strong distributed-systems design, on-premises enterprise delivery experience, and the leadership discipline to deliver to plan.

The role partners closely with the Programme Director, Engineering Leads, Product, Ad Operations, Security and Infrastructure teams — and is accountable for translating business intent into a resilient, secure, scalable on-prem solution that the client team can operate confidently after handover.

Required Qualifications

Experience • 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a Solution / Software Architect role on production systems.

• Demonstrable end-to-end ownership of at least one large-scale Ad-Tech platform (SSP, DSP, Ad Server or Ad Exchange) from blueprint to production.

• Hands-on experience delivering systems with stringent latency SLAs (sub-100ms auction or serving paths) at meaningful scale.

• Proven on-premises enterprise delivery experience — not exclusively public-cloud SaaS — including DMZ patterns, hardened deployments and customer-data-centre constraints.

Ad-Tech Domain Depth

• OpenRTB 2.x specification fluency (request/response, macros, extensions); familiarity with OpenRTB for DOOH desirable.

• Strong working knowledge of RTB auction mechanics, Prebid, Header Bidding, deal-based selling and PMP.

• Experience integrating with at least two of: Google DV360, The Trade Desk, HiveStack, Criteo, MediaMath, Xandr.

• Familiarity with Proof of Play, viewability, IVT, brand safety and ad-verification ecosystems.

• Awareness of privacy and aggregated-demographics handling (no-PII designs).

Technical Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: Java + Spring Boot, and/or Node.js. Polyglot comfort preferred.

• APIs & Protocols: REST, gRPC, OpenRTB 2.x, VAST/VPAID; API-first design discipline.

• Data & Streaming: PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB, Apache Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch; familiarity with data-lake / event-store patterns.

• Cloud-Native & Infra: Kubernetes (on-prem expertise essential), Docker, API Gateway (Kong / NGINX), Linux.

• Security: SSO / LDAP, OAuth2 / OIDC, TLS, encryption at rest, RBAC, audit logging.

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry.

• Frontend Awareness: Sufficient understanding of React / Angular SPA architectures to govern presentation layer decisions (not hands-on UI delivery).