Solution Architect

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Responsibilities

• Optimize the practice's technology stack by identifying opportunities to consolidate tools, improve integration, streamline workflows, apply emerging technologies, and retire redundant or legacy solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the practice's objectives, processes, services, and data to guide solution architecture decisions.
• Design end-to-end, scalable solutions that support the practice's engagement lifecycle, delivery enablement, workflows, reporting, and analytics using shared platforms and integrations.
• Act as the design authority for practice solutions, reviewing and approving architecture designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved patterns, and long-term sustainability.
• Define and maintain reusable solution patterns and reference architectures that enable consistency, scalability, and reduced technical debt across the practice.
• Support the full product lifecycle for practice solutions, including roadmap definition, major enhancements, platform upgrades, and decommissioning decisions.
• Partner with Enterprise, Platform, and Foundational Architects to apply security, data, AI, application, and infrastructure standards while bringing practice-driven perspectives into firmwide architecture decisions.
• Advise Product Managers and Product Owners on architectural trade-offs between standard capabilities, configuration, and customization to balance speed, quality, and sustainability.
• Represent the practice in architecture governance forums, driving alignment across practice, platform, and enterprise technology roadmaps and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (required).
• At least ten years of experience spanning multiple architecture domains with depth in at least one relevant to professional services solutions.
• Deep analytical and design thinking skills.
• Experience designing solutions in a professional service, consulting, or highly regulated services environment.
• Experience working within a product-centric or platform-based delivery model.
• Communication skills to make technical topics easier for practice leaders to understand.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Persistence in the face of obstacles, demonstrates initiative, and sets high personal standards for performance and operational excellence.

This is a non-exempt position, so you may have to work hours that exceed the standard 40-hour work week.

Benefits: We are pleased to offer eligible staff a robust benefits package. Eligibility and contribution requirements for some of these benefits vary based on the number of hours staff work per week. Highlights include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. Eligible staff can also take advantage of our Flexible Time Off and various pre-determined holidays, a 401(k) plan, flexible benefits plans, business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use. A pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff. A discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff.

Plante Moran is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plante Moran maintains a drug-free workplace.

The compensation range reflects the base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this position across our offices in the following regions: CO, IL, OH, and MA. The compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA is $125,000.00 - $190,000.00.

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