Senior UiPath Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior UiPath Solution Architect
Duration: 3 months CTH
Location: Preferably Chicago, IL or Remote

Performance-Based Job Description (PBH)

Role Objective
Within the first 6–12 months, the Senior UiPath Solution Architect will design, deliver, and operationalize scalable enterprise automation solutions that materially improve business efficiency, reliability, and speed—while establishing architecture standards that can be reused across future automation initiatives.
This role owns solution architecture, technical leadership, and delivery quality for UiPath-based Intelligent Automation programs.

Key Performance Objectives
1. Establish a Scalable UiPath Architecture (First 60–90 Days)

• Assess the current automation landscape, infrastructure, and governance model
• Define a standardized UiPath reference architecture covering Studio, Orchestrator, Robots, environments, security, and integrations
• Deliver architecture documentation and design patterns approved by IT, Security, and Business stakeholders

Success Metric: Architecture approved and used as the baseline for all new automations.

2. Lead Delivery of Production-Grade Automations (First 90–120 Days)

• Architect and guide the delivery of multiple attended and unattended automations from design through production
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for resiliency, exception handling, logging, and performance
• Reduce rework, defects, and deployment delays through strong design governance

Success Metric: Automations deployed on schedule with minimal post-production defects.

3. Improve Time-to-Value for Automation Initiatives (First 1-3 Months)

• Introduce reusable frameworks, components, and integration patterns
• Streamline the automation SDLC from intake through deployment
• Enable development teams to deliver automations faster without sacrificing quality

Success Metric: Measurable reduction in development and deployment cycle times.

4. Serve as Technical Authority & Trusted Advisor (Ongoing)

• Lead solution design workshops with business and IT stakeholders
• Translate business outcomes into scalable automation solutions
• Advise leadership on UiPath capabilities, roadmap decisions, and automation prioritization

Success Metric: Stakeholders rely on the architect for design decisions and strategic guidance.

5. Establish Governance, Standards, and Best Practices (First 1–4 Months)

• Define and enforce coding standards, review processes, and architectural guardrails
• Implement DevOps, version control, and environment promotion strategies
• Ensure automations meet audit, security, and compliance requirements

Success Metric: Consistent adoption of standards across all UiPath initiatives.

6. Build Team Capability and Technical Maturity (Ongoing)

• Mentor UiPath developers and junior architects
• Raise the overall technical quality and architectural thinking of the team
• Create documentation and playbooks that enable scale

Success Metric: Teams independently deliver high-quality automations aligned with architecture standards.

Required Experience (Outcome-Focused)

• Proven success architecting and delivering enterprise UiPath solutions, not just developing bots
• Demonstrated ability to lead automation initiatives from concept through production
• Experience partnering with business, IT, infrastructure, and security teams
• Strong background in integrations, APIs, exception handling, and enterprise system design

Preferred Experience

• UiPath Solution Architect certification
• Experience with AI Center, Document Understanding, or intelligent document processing
• Exposure to cloud-hosted UiPath environments
• Prior role establishing or scaling an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE)

What This Role Is Not

• Not a bot-only developer role
• Not a ticket-driven delivery position
• Not limited to individual contribution—this role sets the technical direction

What Top Performers Achieve

• Stable, scalable automation platforms trusted by the business
• Faster automation delivery with fewer defects
• Strong executive confidence in automation strategy
• A UiPath architecture that supports long-term growth