Principle Solutions Architect

Analog; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog seeks a Principal Solution Architect to be the technical authority for a large digital transformation program, setting technology direction, solution design, and architectural standards across delivery teams.

You will ensure designs meet security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration requirements, and you will mentor engineers while representing architecture to clients, partners, and vendors.

Qualifications

• Experience as principal or lead solution architect on large, multi-team platforms.
• Proven ability to translate complex architecture into clear client language.
• Experience designing for regulated environments (defence/government) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set technology selection and architectural standards across all teams.
• Own the platform technical roadmap, scalable for new customers and integrations.
• Review designs for security, data sovereignty, scalability, and integration.
• Maintain architectural docs and decisions to keep teams aligned.
• Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and raise technical bar.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Integration patterns

Platform security

Data sovereignty

Executive communication

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.