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