Solution Architect

Plante Moran • Southfield, MI

48d • $125,000 - $190,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. You will partner with Product Managers, Product owners, Project Managers, Enterprise Architecture and other Solution Architects to ensure Management Consulting solutions align to enterprise standards while achieving the practice's strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. (required)
• 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

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

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• disability insurance
• life insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• various pre-determined holidays
• 401(k) plan
• flexible benefits plans
• business-related travel expense reimbursement
• lodging reimbursement for business-related use
• meal reimbursement for business-related use
• pension plan (for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff)
• discretionary bonus plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior