Senior Principal Engineer - AI Storage Solutions

Dell Technologies Inc.; Riyadh Region; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead end-to-end storage architectures and complex integration strategies across enterprise and AI-driven environments. You will prototype solutions, validate design patterns, and drive ecosystem integrations to ensure performance, scalability, resilience, and security at scale.

You will mentor engineers, develop reusable runbooks, and guide data-management tooling while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise storage architecture, design, and delivery.
• Proven track record in delivery of complex storage design architectures, large-scale integrations, and data migrations across heterogeneous environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Dell storage solutions in AI/ML, analytics, and high-performance computing projects.
• Automation-first mindset with practical experience applying automation across build, test, and deploy pipelines to accelerate delivery and ensure repeatability.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Design: Deliver comprehensive technical architectural designs and detailed implementation plans for storage deployments, with a particular emphasis on AI/ML and data-intensive workloads.
• Drive Storage Migrations and Enable Ecosystem Integrations: Lead and execute complex data migration engagements leveraging both native Dell migration tooling and qualified third-party migration platforms, ensuring minimal disruption and data integrity throughout the lifecycle. And design and implement integrations between Dell storage solutions and the broader technology ecosystem.
• Install, Customize & Integrate: Participate in and oversee the installation, customization, and integration of Dell Technologies solutions within diverse customer environments, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices.
• Lead Validation & Benchmarking: Conduct and lead design reviews, proofs-of-concept (PoCs), and performance benchmarking exercises to validate solution architectures against customer requirements and workload characteristics.
• Standardize & Mentor: Document reusable design standards, reference architectures, and operational runbooks; mentor fellow engineers in advanced design techniques, emerging technologies, and delivery excellence.

Skills

Storage architecture

Data migrations

Automation

Enterprise IT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Dell migration tooling

Job description

Dell Technologies is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead end-to-end storage architectures and complex integration strategies across enterprise and AI-driven environments. You will prototype solutions, validate design patterns, and drive ecosystem integrations to ensure performance, scalability, resilience, and security at scale.

You will mentor engineers, develop reusable runbooks, and guide data-management tooling while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact