Associate Director - IT Cloud & Workplace Solutions

We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio:
  Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.
• Strengthen the Core:
  Optimally using deployed capital and
  maintain an appropriate cost structure.
• Evolve the Core:
  Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing
  on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
• People:
  Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
• Excellence in Customer
  
  Experience:
  
  
  Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey.
We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking
to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

• The Associate Director - Cloud Infrastructure & Workplace Solutions is a senior executive leadership role responsible for defining, driving, and governing the technology strategy globally for Ooredoo Group. This role bridges strategic group-level vision with operating company (OpCo) execution, ensuring that all regional operating companies align with modernized, scalable, and secure infrastructure standards and vision
• As the strategic anchor for the group, the Director oversees the modernization of core infrastructure, hybrid/multi-cloud environments, and digital workplace solutions to enhance operational efficiency, maximize cost synergies, and enable a seamless digital experience for employees across the group
• The role holder maintains close contact with Technology Directors at the operating companies and works closely with other members of the technology teams to drive the overall vision, technology road maps, and world-class network and IT architectures to enable capital efficient plans

• Group strategy and roadmaps:
  Define and drive Group-level IT Cloud, Infrastructure, and Modern Workplace roadmaps, architectures, and engineering practices aligned with the overall Group vision
• Governance and standards:
  Establish architectural principles, technology standards, and governance processes to be adopted across all operating companies (OpCos)
• AI and GPU Strategy:
  Define the Group strategy for GPU/accelerated computing and lead the implementation of AI infrastructure technologies across the technology domain and Op Cos
• OpCo oversight and support:
  Steering infrastructure program execution in local OpCos, conducting performance/SLA reviews, and providing technical support to resolve complex infrastructure issues
• Best Practice Transfer:
  Act as the primary bridge to OpCo CTOs/CIOs to drive the adoption of Agile delivery, Dev Ops, automation, and standardized planning techniques
• Cloud Modernization:
  Architect and scale hybrid/multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) while driving data center consolidation, virtualization, and legacy-to-cloud migrations
• Digital Workplace and Managed Services:
  Champion next-generation workplace tools (UCaaS, productivity suites, IAM) to enhance employee experience, and govern the managed service partner delivering internal IT services
• Vendor and sourcing Synergies:
  Partner with Strategic Sourcing to evaluate bids, select vendors, and develop strategic relationships with major hyper-scalers to secure…