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