Senior Solutions Architect — Cloud, Data & AI Strategy

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with profit-sharing

401k matching

25 days paid time off

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Commuting, mobile, and home internet—l

Team-wide training and retreats

Certifications/training support with 5

Job summary

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is seeking a senior solutions/enterprise architect to lead technical discovery, define target architectures, and guide complex client engagements across data, cloud, and enterprise platforms. You will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and explore AI-enabled opportunities with senior stakeholders.

Join a growth-focused consultancy offering deep industry exposure, collaborative culture, and opportunities to influence across North America and beyond.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years in solution/enterprise architecture, software engineering, or tech consulting.
• Client-facing consulting experience in professional services or systems integration.
• Proven design/delivery of technology solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of EA principles across applications, data, cloud, and integration.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP; deep expertise in at least one.
• Data platforms, databases, data modeling, data integration, data management.
• Modern software engineering practices: APIs, CI/CD, IaC, containers, monitoring, observability.
• Exposure to AI/ML or generative AI is preferred.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and guide engagements.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills with executives.
• Commercial awareness and entrepreneurial approach; travel up to 80%.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment: current-state analysis, requirements, target-state architecture, gaps, roadmaps.
• Design and own architectures across applications, data, cloud, integration, and enterprise tech.
• Provide senior technical guidance on architecture decisions, technology selection, cost, risk, scalability and security.
• Translate complex business needs into scalable tech solutions and present to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Assist clients in defining future-state data architectures, data management, integrations, and operating models.
• Serve as a senior escalation point to resolve architecture challenges across engagements.
• Lead and mentor technical teams; collaborate across engineering, data, product and business units.
• Develop proofs of concept and reference implementations for validation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (AI) for meaningful business value.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, estimates and executive briefings.
• Create reusable architecture patterns and standards applicable across engagements.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Data modeling

APIs & microservices

CI/CD & IaC

AI/ML exposure

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Travel up to 80%

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is seeking a senior solutions/enterprise architect to lead technical discovery, define target architectures, and guide complex client engagements across data, cloud, and enterprise platforms. You will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and explore AI-enabled opportunities with senior stakeholders.

Join a growth-focused consultancy offering deep industry exposure, collaborative culture, and opportunities to influence across North America and beyond.