Solution Architecture Lead

DXC Technology | United Arab Emirates | On-site

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Solution Architecture Lead to provide overall architecture leadership for a large-scale, complex technology transformation program in the UAE.

The Solution Architecture Lead will own the end-to-end solution architecture and technical design authority across the program, ensuring that solutions delivered across multiple technology domains are integrated, secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with the overall technology strategy.

This is a senior technical leadership role requiring strong architectural breadth, hands-on solution experience, and the ability to lead architects, technical teams, vendors, and partners within a complex multi-vendor environment.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership & Strategy

• Own and lead the overall end-to-end solution architecture across the program.
• Define the target solution architecture, architecture roadmap, principles, standards, patterns, and design guardrails.
• Translate complex business and technology requirements into scalable and sustainable architecture solutions.
• Ensure alignment across applications, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, and operational architecture.
• Provide technical direction and architectural leadership throughout the full program lifecycle.
• Ensure architecture decisions support business objectives, operational requirements, scalability, resilience, security, and long-term sustainability.

Architecture Team Leadership

• Lead and coordinate solution architects, domain architects, technical leads, and other architecture resources across the program.
• Establish clear architecture responsibilities and ownership across technology domains.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and direction to architecture and engineering teams.
• Ensure consistency of architecture standards and design principles across all workstreams.
• Resolve cross-domain architecture conflicts and drive technical decision-making.
• Act as the escalation point for complex architectural and technical issues.

Architecture Governance & Design Authority

• Establish and lead architecture governance and design authority processes.
• Chair or facilitate architecture and technical design reviews.
• Review and approve high-level and detailed solution designs.
• Ensure architecture compliance across internal teams, vendors, partners, and technology providers.
• Maintain architectural decisions, standards, principles, patterns, and technical documentation.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, constraints, and dependencies.
• Ensure deviations from agreed architecture are appropriately assessed, documented, and governed.

End-to-End Solution Integration

• Ensure effective integration across all technology domains and program workstreams.
• Define and govern integration principles covering APIs, middleware, messaging, microservices, event-driven architectures, data exchange, and external interfaces.
• Identify cross-system dependencies and ensure interoperability across the technology landscape.
• Prevent architecture fragmentation, duplication, and incompatible technology decisions.
• Ensure individual technology components collectively form a coherent end-to-end solution.

Cloud, Infrastructure & Resilience

• Provide architectural oversight across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, compute, storage, network, platforms, and associated services.
• Ensure architecture incorporates appropriate availability, scalability, capacity, performance, resilience, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend appropriate architectural approaches based on technical, operational, security, and commercial considerations.
• Ensure infrastructure and platform architecture supports application and business requirements.

Security by Design

• Ensure security is embedded throughout the architecture and solution lifecycle.
• Work closely with cybersecurity specialists to incorporate security requirements and controls into solution designs.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of identity and access management, data protection, encryption, network security, monitoring, resilience, and secure integration.
• Ensure architectural designs align with applicable security, governance, compliance, and risk requirements.

Vendor & Partner Architecture Management

• Provide architectural oversight across multiple technology vendors, partners, and delivery teams.
• Review and challenge vendor solution designs and technical proposals.
• Ensure vendor solutions align with the overall target archite