Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect – Contractor

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE – Onsite

Employment Type: Contractor

Experience: 8+ Years

Level: Senior

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to lead the design of secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions across application, integration, data, cloud, and security domains.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience translating business and technical requirements into robust architecture, while providing architectural governance, managing risks, and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Define High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD) for complex solutions.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, architecture standards, and technical guidelines.
• Design solutions across application, integration, data, cloud, and security domains.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements (NFRs) including scalability, availability, performance, security, and resilience.
• Provide architectural governance and ensure solutions comply with established standards and policies.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs.
• Support security, risk, and regulatory compliance requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Evaluate technology options and provide technical guidance for vendors and implementation partners.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, infrastructure, data, product, and business stakeholders.
• Review proposed solutions and ensure consistency with enterprise architecture principles.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software/technology architecture or a related technical role.
• Strong cross-domain architecture experience spanning application, integration, data, cloud, and security.
• Proven experience producing HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, and architecture standards.
• Strong understanding of NFRs, system scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Experience with architecture governance, risk management, and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience providing technical direction to vendors and delivery teams.
• Ability to evaluate complex technical options and make sound architectural decisions.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a true cross-domain Solutions Architect who can go beyond solution design and take ownership of architecture governance, standards, risk, compliance, and technical direction.

Abu Dhabi – Onsite

If you have the architectural depth and leadership experience to design and govern complex enterprise solutions, we would like to hear from you.