Principal Architect

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success.

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Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:

We are seeking a senior Principal Advisor to join our Business & Technology Strategy practice. This is a advisory role — focused on strategy, assessment, and solutioning for enterprise clients. You will not be running programs. You will be shaping them. At the center of everything you do is a relentless focus on finding value: identifying where clients can unlock efficiency, reduce waste, and generate measurable ROI from their technology and transformation investments.

You bring a management consulting mindset: the ability to rapidly absorb complex, ambiguous problems, diagnose root issues, and translate findings into clear, actionable plans executives can act on. Engagements range from retainer-based advisory and targeted assessments to facilitated workshops, strategic roadmap development, and pre-sale solutioning. You will also play an active role in business development — shaping proposals, leading solutioning conversations, and building long-term advisory relationships.

Responsibilities:

Advisory & Strategic Counsel

Your primary mode is trusted advisor — operating at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, and AI to help clients act with clarity and confidence.

• Serve as a senior advisor to executive and senior leadership on enterprise strategy, transformation direction, and technology investment — on retainer, project, or workshop basis.

• Rapidly diagnose complex, ambiguous business problems and translate them into structured findings with clear, prioritized next steps.

• Identify and quantify value opportunities — cost reduction, efficiency gains, revenue enablement, and risk mitigation — and help clients build the business case to pursue them.

• Develop ROI frameworks and value scorecards that connect technology and transformation investments to measurable financial and operational outcomes.

• Challenge clients to prioritize investments based on value potential — ensuring resources flow to the highest-impact opportunities.

Assessment, Analysis & Problem Framing

You get to the heart of a problem fast — conducting structured assessments and framing the situation in a way that unlocks action.

• Lead targeted assessments of enterprise strategy, business architecture, AI readiness, operating model maturity, and technology investment alignment.

• Conduct structured discovery through interviews, workshops, and data review — synthesizing inputs into clear diagnostic findings.

• Surface efficiency opportunities, cost drivers, and value leakage within client operations, portfolios, and technology investments.

• Produce crisp, executive-ready deliverables: findings reports, strategic briefs, roadmaps, and advisory presentations.

Workshops & Facilitation

You design and lead high-stakes facilitated sessions — from executive alignment workshops to cross-functional working sessions.

• Design and facilitate executive workshops covering strategy alignment, AI prioritization, architecture direction, and roadmap development.

• Lead working sessions that move organizations from competing priorities to a shared, structured plan.

• Create structured session outputs — decision logs, prioritized backlogs, roadmap drafts — that drive action after the room clears.

AI Strategy & Adoption Advisory

You help clients make smart, grounded decisions about where, when, and how to adopt AI — tied to real business outcomes.

• Advise clients on AI strategy, use case prioritization, and adoption — grounded in their business model, data maturity, and organizational readiness.

• Develop AI adoption frameworks and governance models that are practical, ethical, and tied to measurable outcomes.

• Evaluate AI tools, platforms, and vendor proposals on behalf of clients — providing independent, objective strategic guidance.

• Integrate AI strategy into broader transformation and architecture advisory work.

Solutioning & Business Development

You contribute actively to practice growth — shaping how AGA shows up in client conversations and how engagements are positioned and won.

• Lead or co-lead solutioning conversations with prospective and existing clients — helping them understand the problem, approach, and value.

• Shape advisory proposals, SOWs, and engagement structures that reflect a clear understanding of client need.

• Identify opportunities to expand advisory relationships and position next engagements.

• Contribute to offering development, frameworks, and go-to-market positioning for the practice.

Enterprise & Business Architecture

You use architecture as a strategic lens — informing how you assess, advise, and shape direction.

• Apply business and enterprise architecture frameworks to assess current state and define target-state direction.

• Develop architecture artifacts — capability models, value stream maps, operating model diagrams — as advisory tools for executive decision-making.

• Connect business strategy to technology investment through architecture-driven analysis and roadmapping.

• Advise on technology modernization, cloud strategy, data architecture, and AI platform decisions.

Travel:

This role requires approximately 5–25% travel depending on client engagement model. Many advisory engagements are conducted remotely or in hybrid formats; in-person workshops, client onsite assessments, and solutioning meetings may require periodic travel.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field required.

• Advanced degree (MBA, Master's, Ph.D.) preferred.

Professional Experience

• 10–15+ years in management consulting, enterprise strategy, business or enterprise architecture, or strategic advisory roles.

• Demonstrated experience in a pure advisory or consulting capacity — assessing, advising, and solutioning rather than owning program delivery.

• 5+ years client-facing in IT services, management consulting, or professional services organizations.

• Proven track record advising executive and senior leadership (VP, SVP, C-suite) in complex enterprise environments.

• Background in business development, proposal development, or pre-sale solutioning conversations preferred.

Management Consulting & Problem-Solving

• Strong management consulting mindset: rapidly diagnose ambiguous problems and structure them into clear findings and actionable recommendations.

• Skilled at building executive-ready deliverables — assessments, strategic briefs, roadmaps — with minimal ramp time.

• Comfortable operating with incomplete information and driving to a point of view quickly.

• Experience conducting structured assessments, facilitated workshops, and discovery sessions with senior stakeholders.

Strategy, Architecture & AI

• Deep knowledge of Business Architecture: value streams, capability models, BPMN process models, and information models.

• Strong command of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and operating models.

• Demonstrated ability to develop AI adoption strategies, governance frameworks, and readiness assessments.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modernization domains: applications, data & analytics, and AI/ML.

• Knowledge of Lean Portfolio Management, governance design, and investment prioritization practices.

Leadership & Communication

• Executive presence — able to command a room, lead high-stakes workshops, and present recommendations with confidence.

• Exceptional written communication: produces clear, concise, and compelling advisory deliverables.

• Translates technical complexity into business language without losing accuracy.

• Self-directed and thrives in a lean, fast-moving advisory environment with a bias toward outcomes.

Desirable Certifications

• Business Architecture Guild certification (BIZBOK) or CBAP (IIBA).

• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.

• SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) or SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC).

• Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt, Black Belt, or equivalent).

• Prosci Change Management Certification or equivalent OCM credential.

• AI/ML practitioner credentials — AWS Certified Machine Learning, Google Professional ML Engineer, Microsoft Azure AI Engineer, or equivalent.

• Cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) — Solutions Architect or equivalent.

This is a Permanent position based out of Baltimore, MD.

The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $225000.00/yr.

We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. Our full-time, internal employment benefits include the following:
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Jun 21, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.