Principal Engineer Solutions Architecture

About the Role

ديل السعودية - Dell Technologies KSA is seeking a Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture, to join its Professional Services team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves leading high-impact initiatives focused on Dell storage solutions, including Dell PowerScale and ObjectScale. The Principal Engineer will own end-to-end architectures and complex integration strategies within enterprise and AI-driven environments, contributing to the customization and delivery of IT solutions for customers.

Role Context

The Solutions Architecture team provides IT consulting expertise, specializing in solution customization, complex integration, and end-to-end delivery across various industry segments. Through consultation, analysis, and engineering, the team designs and implements new IT systems or transforms existing ones to support customer strategic, operational, and financial objectives. This role involves prototyping solutions, validating design patterns, driving ecosystem integrations, and ensuring non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, resilience, and security are met at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Create architectural designs and implementation plans for Dell PowerScale and ObjectScale deployments, with a focus on AI and data-intensive workloads.
• Lead data migrations utilizing native Dell and third-party tools.
• Integrate Dell storage solutions with analytics, AI, and cloud-native platforms.
• Oversee the installation, customization, and integration of PowerScale and ObjectScale across diverse customer environments.
• Conduct design reviews, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and performance benchmarking to validate PowerScale and ObjectScale architectures against customer requirements.
• Document reusable design standards and reference architectures for block, file, and object storage.
• Mentor engineers in advanced design and delivery practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in Dell storage solutions, specifically Dell PowerScale and ObjectScale.
• Experience with complex integration strategies within enterprise and AI-driven environments.
• Proficiency in data migration techniques and tools.
• Ability to conduct design reviews, PoCs, and performance benchmarking.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, working within the Solutions Architecture team as part of Professional Services at ديل السعودية - Dell Technologies KSA.

Application Process

Candidates interested in this Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture role are encouraged to apply.