Principal Solution Architect - Management Consulting

About the role

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for optimizing the Management Consulting technology stack by identifying opportunities to consolidate tools, improve integration, streamline workflows, apply emerging technologies, and retire redundant or legacy solutions to create measurable business value. You will also be defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures that enable practice-specific capabilities, offerings and processes.

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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Must have a deep architecture background with at least ten years of experience spanning multiple architecture domains with depth in at least one relevant to professional services solutions and working knowledge across others (i.e. Cloud and Infrastructure, Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Architecture and Integration, Application Development Architectures, Process Analysis, DevOps and Product Management).
• 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
• Persists in the face of obstacles, demonstrates initiative, and sets high personal standards for performance and operational excellence

Qualifications

• Must have a deep architecture background with at least ten years of experience spanning multiple architecture domains with depth in at least one relevant to professional services solutions and working knowledge across others (i.e. Cloud and Infrastructure, Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Architecture and Integration, Application Development Architectures, Process Analysis, DevOps and Product Management).
• 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
• Persists in the face of obstacles, demonstrates initiative, and sets high personal standards for performance and operational excellence

Skills

• Deep architecture background
• Experience in professional services solutions
• Experience in product-centric or platform-based delivery models
• Technical communication skills
• Leadership and organizational skills
• Problem-solving and initiative

Benefits

Plante Moran offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. Additionally, eligible staff can take advantage of Flexible Time Off, 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 also offers some contingent staff positions the option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time.

Pay

The compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA is: $125,000.00 - $190,000.00

Schedule

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