Lead Business Consultant - dubai - Insight

Description

About us: Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

As a Senior Application, Data & AI Solutions Architect, you will serve as the strategic technical lead in pre-sales engagements, guiding clients through large-scale transformation across application portfolios, data platforms, and AI enablement. Drawing on your deep delivery background and enterprise architecture expertise, you will translate business objectives into solution designs that span SaaS integration, cloud application modernization, CRM/ERP workloads (e.g., Oracle), and data analytics ecosystems on Azure.

This role requires a proven record of designing and shaping complex enterprise application architectures, enabling cloud-native modernization, and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders. You will work closely with client executives, delivery leaders, and partner ecosystems to shape and secure strategic transformation programs.

• Lead strategic consulting conversations, identifying transformation opportunities across application portfolios, data platforms, and AI/automation strategy.
• Translate business and technology requirements into end-to-end solution architectures, including reference models, migration patterns, and capability roadmaps.
• Architect application modernization solutions including re-platforming, containerization, microservices, API enablement, and event-driven patterns.
• Design data and AI architectures including data lakes, MLOps frameworks, and analytics platforms leveraging Azure-native services.
• Integrate SaaS and enterprise systems (e.g., Oracle, CRM, ERP platforms), ensuring interoperability, governance, and security alignment.
• Develop solution proposals, RFP responses, estimates, and Statements of Work in collaboration with pursuit and delivery teams.
• Lead executive and technical workshops to shape strategic outcomes and drive solution direction.
• Apply enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent) to ensure scalable, governed, and value-aligned solution design.
• Act as a trusted advisor from early engagement through deal closure, ensuring feasibility, clarity, and delivery confidence.

• Extensive experience across solution architecture, application modernization, or cloud transformation roles, ideally within global system integrators or large enterprise consulting environments.
• Proven delivery background before moving into pre-sales, able to demonstrate real-world implementation understanding.
• Strong experience designing application modernization and integration architectures, including APIs, containers, Kubernetes, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with Azure application and data services, including PaaS, serverless, databases, analytics, and AI toolchains.
• Track record in complex SaaS/enterprise system integration, particularly Oracle, CRM/ERP, and industry platforms.
• Demonstrated success in shaping and winning large-scale transformation programs.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging both C-level stakeholders and senior technical audiences.
• Enterprise architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF) strongly preferred.
• Azure Solution Architect Expert or equivalent cloud certification advantageous.

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there's a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.