Wipro
Principal Solution Architect
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job overview
Date posted
15/12/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
29/01/2026
Job description
The Principal Solution Architect role is responsible for creating enterprise-grade architectural solution designs and providing thought leadership to enable delivery teams to achieve exceptional client engagement and satisfaction. The role owns end-to-end solution architecture for new deals and major change requests, creating scalable, reliable, and manageable enterprise-wide architectures that align technology capabilities with business outcomes. Responsibilities include RFP solutioning, defining current-state and target-state architectures, evaluating technology environments and client requirements, and designing collaboration solution frameworks across systems, applications, and shared infrastructure services. The role provides technical leadership throughout design, development, and implementation phases, validates solutions from technology, cost, and customer differentiation perspectives, and ensures architectural assurance across delivery. The position also supports pre-sales, client engagement, competency building, thought leadership, and team management while leading architecture frameworks, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement across projects.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Develop enterprise-wide architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests in existing engagements.
- Create scalable, reliable, and manageable architectures aligned with business outcome objectives.
- Provide RFP solutioning and ensure overall architectural design assurance.
- Analyze client technology environments and requirements to define collaboration solution frameworks and architectures.
- Define current-state architectures and design target-state solutions, identifying improvements, options, and trade-offs.
- Document architectural designs in detail including application views, multiple sections, artefacts, and solution components.
- Evaluate and recommend solutions for integration within the broader technology ecosystem.
- Validate architectural solutions and prototypes from technology, cost, and customer differentiation perspectives.
- Identify architectural problem areas, perform root cause analysis, and define corrective solutions.
- Collaborate with sales, program, project, and consulting teams to align solutions with architecture standards.
- Track industry and application trends to inform current and future IT planning.
- Provide technical and strategic input during project planning phases.
- Identify implementation risks and define mitigation strategies across projects.
- Build trusted relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, and peer architects.
- Define KPIs and SLAs to measure solution performance and delivery effectiveness.
- Ensure quality assurance and consistent application of architecture principles and standards.
- Support pre-sales and client engagements by presenting solution designs and acting as a trusted technical advisor.
- Develop proof of concepts, demos, case studies, white papers, and blogs to support growth and thought leadership.
- Mentor developers, designers, and junior architects and contribute to architecture practice development.
- Manage team resourcing, onboarding, performance management, engagement, and talent development initiatives.
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate deep expertise in enterprise and solution architecture design and delivery.
- Possess strong experience in RFP solutioning, pre-sales support, and client-facing architecture engagements.
- Demonstrate ability to define and govern enterprise architecture frameworks and standards.
- Exhibit strong knowledge of scalable, reliable, and manageable system design principles.
- Demonstrate experience in architectural documentation, validation, and assurance.
- Possess strong capability in identifying technical risks and defining mitigation strategies.
- Demonstrate experience enabling delivery teams through frameworks, automation, and reusable patterns.
- Show capability in thought leadership development through POCs, white papers, blogs, and industry forums.
- Demonstrate leadership experience in mentoring teams and managing performance, resourcing, and engagement.
