Principle Solutions Architect

FacadeToday; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to act as the technical authority for a large digital transformation program, setting technology direction, solution design, and architectural standards across every delivery team.

You will ensure every design decision meets security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration requirements, and you will be the go-to person clients, partners, and vendors turn to for the architecture.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a principal or lead solution architect on a large, multi team platform.
• Direct experience designing for data sovereignty and regulated environments, ideally defence or government.
• Strong judgment balancing scalability, security, and delivery speed.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable moving between deep technical detail and executive summary.

Responsibilities

• Set technology selection, solution design, and architectural standards across all delivery teams building on Hive.
• Own the platform's technical roadmap, and ensure it can scale with new customers, integrations, and use cases.
• Review designs for security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration requirements before they reach production.
• Maintain architectural documentation and decision records that keep teams aligned as the platform grows.
• Represent the architecture to clients, partners, and third party vendors, translating technical decisions into terms that land with each audience.
• Support pursuits and proposals with credible technical positioning and solution design.
• Work with delivery and engineering leads to unblock technical dependencies and resolve design disdutes.
• Mentor senior engineers on architectural best practice, and raise the technical bar across teams.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Integration patterns

Platform security

Architectural leadership

Job description

Principal Solutions Architect

Analog is looking for a Principal Solution Architect to act as the technical authority for a large digital transformation program, setting technology direction, solution design, and architectural standards across every delivery team.

You will make sure every design decision holds up against security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration requirements, and you will be the person clients, partners, and vendors turn to when they need a straight answer on the architecture.

What You’ll Do

Architecture and Standards

• Set technology selection, solution design, and architectural standards across all delivery teams building on Hive.
• Own the platform's technical roadmap, and ensure it can scale with new customers, integrations, and use cases.
• Review designs for security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration requirements before they reach production.
• Maintain architectural documentation and decision records that keep teams aligned as the platform grows.

Stakeholder Representation

• Represent the architecture to clients, partners, and third party vendors, translating technical decisions into terms that land with each audience.
• Support pursuits and proposals with credible technical positioning and solution design.
• Work with delivery and engineering leads to unblock technical dependencies and resolve design disdutes.
• Mentor senior engineers on architectural best practice, and raise the technical bar across teams.

What you’ll bring

• Substantial experience as a principal or lead solution architect on a large, multi team platform.
• Deep technical fluency across cloud infrastructure, integration patterns, and platform security.
• Direct experience designing for data sovereignty and regulated environments, ideally defence or government.
• A track record of representing architecture credibly to clients, partners, and vendors.
• Strong judgment for balancing scalability, security, and delivery speed.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable moving between deep technical detail and executive summary.

About Analog

Analog builds Hive, a digital twin platform that connects physical environments to AI and sensors, enabling defence and government customers to monitor, simulate, train, and command across real world estates and synthetic environments. We are a fast moving, mission driven team working on programmes that sit at the intersection of national digital transformation, modern warfare, and advanced technology. Our work matters, and we move with the urgency that reflects it.