Principal Solution Architect

Plante Moran; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Discretionary bonus

Pension plan

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Plante Moran is seeking a Solution Architect to optimize the Management Consulting technology stack, consolidate tools, and guide end-to-end solution architectures across practice capabilities. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Enterprise Architecture, and other architects to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.

The role requires deep architectural expertise across multiple domains, excellent communication, and a track record in product-centric

Qualifications

• Ten years of architecture experience across multiple domains with depth in at least one professional services-relevant area.
• Experience designing solutions in professional services, consulting, or regulated environments.
• Strong analytical and design thinking skills.
• Experience working in product-centric or platform-based delivery models.
• Excellent communication to translate technical topics for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Optimize technology stack by consolidating tools, improving integration, and retiring legacy solutions.
• Define end-to-end architectures to enable practice capabilities, offerings, and processes.
• Review and approve architecture designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Develop reusable solution patterns and reference architectures for consistency and scalability.
• Support lifecycle activities: roadmap, upgrades, and decommissioning decisions.

Skills

Architecture expertise

Cloud & Infrastructure

Security

Data Architecture

Integration

DevOps & Product Management

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field

Job description

Count on us. Our "we-care" culture is more than just a motto; it's a promise. From day one, we prioritize your growth, well-being, and success. You can count on us to support your career journey and help you achieve your professional goals. Join us.

Your 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. 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.

• 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’sobjectives, 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)
• 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. Cloudand Infrastructure, Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Architecture and Integration, ApplicationDe development Architecture s, ProcessA nlysis, DevOps and Product Management).
• Deep analyticaland design thinking skills
• Experience designing solutions in a professionalservice, 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

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

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What makes us different?

On the surface, we’re one of the nation’s largest audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management firms. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see what makes us different: we’re a relatively jerk‑free firm (hey, nobody ‘s perfect) with a world‑class culture, consistent recognition as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” and an endless array of opportunities.At Plante Moran, diversity, equity and inclusion means that all staff members have equitable and fair opportunities to succeed, in an inclusive environment, with their individual, unique identities.

Plante Moran enjoys a “Workplace for Your Day” model which, simply put, means we strive for flexibility and balance while staying true to our principally in‑person model. We believe that face‑to‑face interactions are paramount for individual and collective development, but also encourage individuals to work with their supervisor and team to determine their optimal working environment each day.

Plante Moran is committed to a diverse workplace.We strive to create a culture where each person feels accepted and valued. We believe that each person’s ultimate potential begins with first acknowledging their inherent dignity. When we can recognize — and celebrate — our many human differences, we’re able to create a workplace where all staff feel a sense of belonging and an opportunity to succeed. This allows us to attract and retain the best talent, serve clients through diverse thinking, and better represent and support the various communities in which we live and work.Plante Moran is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Plante Moran maintains a drug‑free workplace.

The specific statements above are not intended to be all-inclusive.

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. In addition to this, eligible staff are able to take advantage of our Flexible Time Off and various pre‑determined holidays, as well as 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.

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. Please review the position description for the applicable geographic location. Generally, experienced hires are not hired at or near the maximum salary range, as compensation decisions take into account a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to: responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. For early career roles, including campus hires, we offer standardized, market-based starting salaries among individuals within the same hiring group. This approach ensures fairness and reflects current industry benchmarks for entry‑level talent.

Under Colorado’s Job Application Fairness Act, you have the right to redact, from any documents that you submit in connection with your application, information that identifies your age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. Should you wish to exercise your right to redact such information, please redact it prior to submitting documentation.

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

This application window is a good‑faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This deadline will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended.