Architecture Consultant

Expleo•Minneapolis, MN

6d•$75 - $105

About The Position

At Trissential, we partner with some of North America's most respected organizations to lead business transformation, operational improvement, and technology modernization initiatives. Our clients aren't simply implementing new technology—they're improving how their businesses operate, strengthening customer experiences, enabling employee effectiveness, and delivering measurable business outcomes. We're growing our community of experienced Architecture consultants to support current and upcoming client initiatives. Our architects help organizations transform business capabilities by designing technology solutions that align business strategy, enterprise architecture, and modern technology platforms. They partner with business and technology leaders to develop practical, scalable architectures that enable innovation while delivering measurable business value. Whether you bring five years of architecture experience or fifteen-plus years leading enterprise architecture and technology strategy, you'll have opportunities to apply your expertise on meaningful client engagements while building trusted relationships and delivering lasting business value.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing technology solutions, with opportunities ranging from solution architecture engagements to enterprise-scale transformation initiatives requiring 15+ years of architecture leadership experience.
Experience supporting business transformation, technology modernization, cloud adoption, AI enablement, digital initiatives, or enterprise platform implementations.
Strong analytical thinking, solution design, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience working within consulting or complex enterprise environments supporting cross-functional initiatives.
Ability to quickly understand client environments, business capabilities, technology ecosystems, and strategic priorities.
Experience translating business objectives into scalable, secure, and practical technology solutions.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and recommend solutions that balance technical excellence, governance, delivery speed, business value, and long-term sustainability.
Experience presenting architecture decisions to governance organizations and facilitating collaborative design discussions across technical and business stakeholders.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools to improve architecture analysis, solution design, documentation, and overall solution quality.
Demonstrated ability to influence decisions and build consensus without formal authority.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise Architecture
Solution Architecture
Application Architecture
Data Architecture
Integration & API Architecture
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
AI Solution Architecture
Enterprise Platform Architecture (ERP, CRM, ITSM, PLM, etc.)
Digital Transformation
Technology Modernization
Business Capability Modeling
Technology Strategy & Roadmapping
Architecture Governance
Delivery Methodologies
Agile
Scrum
Waterfall
Hybrid Delivery Models
Lean / Continuous Improvement
Energy & Utilities
Healthcare
Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics
Financial Services / Insurance
Retail & Consumer Products
Public Sector
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field preferred.
TOGAF® Certification
AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud architecture certifications
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or similar cloud-native certification
SAFe® Architect or equivalent Agile architecture certification
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) or other security certification
AI-related architecture or cloud AI certifications

Responsibilities

Partnering with business and technology leaders to understand strategic objectives, business capabilities, and transformation priorities.
Translating business strategy into technology strategies, architectural roadmaps, and implementation approaches.
Assessing current-state business and technology environments to identify modernization opportunities and architectural improvements.
Defining future-state architectures that balance business value, technical feasibility, scalability, security, and operational sustainability.
Providing trusted advisory services to executive stakeholders on technology investments, architectural strategy, and long-term business capabilities.
Designing enterprise, solution, application, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, AI, or technology architectures that align with business objectives.
Developing conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models that support current and future business capabilities.
Defining architectural principles, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices.
Evaluating technology platforms, products, vendor solutions, and emerging technologies.
Creating architecture documentation, decision records, solution diagrams, and implementation guidance.
Ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards while supporting practical business outcomes.
Partnering with business analysts, product teams, developers, infrastructure engineers, data teams, and project leaders throughout solution delivery.
Providing technical leadership during implementation while ensuring alignment to the intended architectural vision.
Supporting backlog refinement, solution decomposition, implementation planning, and technical decision-making.
Reviewing solution designs, configurations, and implementations for architectural quality and compliance.
Resolving complex technical and cross-functional design challenges.
Balancing enterprise architecture standards, governance, and best practices with practical business needs by evaluating tradeoffs and recommending solutions that optimize business value, delivery speed, risk, and long-term sustainability.
Preparing and presenting architecture designs, solution recommendations, and technical decisions to Architecture Review Boards, governance committees, and executive stakeholders while collaborating on design refinements and achieving organizational alignment.
Designing data architectures, information models, APIs, integrations, event-driven solutions, and intelligent technology ecosystems where appropriate.
Supporting cloud modernization, platform integration, AI enablement, automation, and intelligent business capabilities.
Defining approaches for data governance, interoperability, security, scalability, and operational resilience.
Leveraging AI-assisted engineering and architecture tools to accelerate solution analysis, evaluate architectural alternatives, generate architecture artifacts, improve documentation quality, and increase delivery effectiveness.
Using AI to perform architecture quality reviews, challenge design assumptions, identify risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and strengthen proposed solutions through structured validation and "red team" analysis.
Evaluating emerging technologies and recommending practical applications that create measurable business value.
Establishing architecture governance processes, design reviews, and technology standards.
Identifying technical debt, architectural risks, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
Driving consistency across enterprise platforms, applications, products, and business capabilities.
Supporting technology roadmaps and long-term architecture evolution.
Continuously improving architecture practices, reusable patterns, standards, and governance processes.
Building trusted relationships with executives, business leaders, product teams, engineering organizations, and technology partners.
Communicating complex architectural concepts, design decisions, and technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear, logical, and professional manner.
Facilitating architecture workshops, design sessions, and strategic planning discussions.
Building consensus among business leaders, architects, engineering teams, and governance organizations to deliver practical, scalable solutions that balance competing priorities.
Influencing technology decisions through collaboration, credibility, and sound architectural judgment rather than authority alone.
Providing thought leadership that helps clients balance innovation, delivery speed, cost, operational sustainability, and long-term business value.