Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Role Overview

Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture at Dell Technologies. The Solutions Architecture team within Professional Services stands at the forefront of solution customization, complex integration, and end-to-end delivery across targeted industry segments.

Company Overview

Dell Technologies drives human progress through technology. The Solutions Architecture team within Professional Services delivers trusted IT consulting expertise through deep consultation, rigorous analysis, and hands-on engineering to architect and deliver new IT systems or transform existing ones to support customers' strategic, operational, and financial goals.

Role Purpose

Lead high-impact initiatives centered on Dell storage solutions, owning end-to-end architectures and complex integration strategies across enterprise and AI-driven environments. Prototype solutions, validate design patterns, drive ecosystem integrations and data management tools, and ensure non-functional requirements—performance, scalability, resilience, and security—are met at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Deliver comprehensive technical architectural designs and detailed implementation plans for storage deployments, with particular emphasis on AI/ML and data-intensive workloads.

Storage Migrations & Ecosystem Integration

• 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.
• Design and implement integrations between Dell storage solutions and the broader technology ecosystem.

Installation, Customization & Integration

• 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.

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.

Standardization & Mentorship

• Document reusable design standards, reference architectures, and operational runbooks.
• Mentor fellow engineers in advanced design techniques, emerging technologies, and delivery excellence.

Qualifications & Experience

• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise storage architecture, design, and delivery.
• Proven track record in the 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (desirable).
• Dell Technologies Proven Professional certification in Storage Design and Implementation (e.g., PowerScale or related tracks) (desirable).

Skills & Competencies

• Automation-first mindset with practical experience applying automation across build, test, and deploy pipelines to accelerate delivery and ensure repeatability.