Solution Architect

Turnberry Solutions; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package (medical, dental, V

Disability insurance

Group term life insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k) with match

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Turnberry Solutions is seeking a Solution Architect to join its Digital Modernization practice in Des Moines, IA. The role focuses on defining logical architectures, aligning infrastructure across cloud and on-prem, and guiding complex technical systems from discovery through retirement.

You will partner with product, security, and DevOps teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant solutions while driving architectural decisions and governance across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in security applications and controls.
• Minimum 4 years of cloud architecture experience, including system integration and analysis.
• Proven ability to design and guide complex technical systems.
• Experience migrating to public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end-to-end architecture for one or more systems.
• Develop architectural diagrams, patterns, and decision records.
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to translate business needs into technical designs.
• Lead architectural decisions and document rationale for traceability.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Duration: 10+ Months

Location: IA-Des Moines, Hybrid 3-4 days onsite

Overview: Every Turnberry consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group of consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. Each of these practices aligns to one of the core services Turnberry offers to clients. As a Solution Architect, you will join Turnberry's Digital Modernization practice, where technology and strategy combine to deliver exceptional digital experiences, empowering organizations to thrive in today's digital market.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and Solution Intent:
  • Define and evolve logical architecture and solution intent for one or more systems and their interactions
• Infrastructure Architecture and Platform Alignment:
  • Define the infrastructure capabilities, constraints, nonfunctional requirements, and risk treatments required to support solution intent across cloud, on-premises, network, compute, storage, runtime, identity, observability, resilience, backup, recovery, and continuity concerns
• Upstream Shaping and Feasibility:
  • Engage in discovery, intake, portfolio, and product planning before investment decisions are committed
• Architectural Decisions:
  • Lead designated architectural decisions from framing through commitment
  • Make trade-offs explicit; identify decision owners and affected stakeholders; and document what was decided, why, where the decision applies, and the conditions that would cause reconsideration
• AI and Agent Architecture:
  • Determine when AI is appropriate and select architecture patterns consistent with intended use and risk
• Standards, Guardrails, and Reuse:
  • Apply and evolve enterprise principles, standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, and regulatory obligations
• Lifecycle, Risk, and Technical Debt:
  • Steward architectural integrity across introduction, change, operation, modernization, and retirement
• Cross-Functional Partnership:
  • Partner with product management, business owners, engineering, data, security, infrastructure, network, platform, operations, compliance, and other architects
• Evidence and Continuous Improvement:
  • Maintain architecture models, decision records, risks, assumptions, standards, and conformance evidence in governed systems of record
• System Design and Architecture:
  • Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture of one or more systems
  • Develop and maintain architectural documentation (diagrams, patterns, decision records)
  • Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to translate business needs into technical designs
  • Work closely with infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to ensure holistic architecture
  • Serve as the architectural point of contact for delivery teams and product owners
• Standards and Governance:
  • Align system architecture with enterprise architecture guidelines and principles
  • Participate in architecture review boards and peer design reviews
  • Ensure adherence to technical standards and compliance requirements
• Lifecycle Ownership:
  • Oversee the full system lifecycle from concept to decommissioning
  • Identify architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies
  • Support technical debt management and system evolution planning
• Decision-Making and Documentation:
  • Evaluate technology trade-offs and provide architectural guidance on key decisions
  • Maintain system-level decision logs and rationale for traceability
  • Advocate for sound architectural practices and long-term system health
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience of which could be any combination of the following: Security application experience including program controls, processes, security tools such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, etc.
• Minimum 4 years of cloud architecture experience, including system integration, application development and system analysis
• Proven experience designing and guiding complex technical systems
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and system integration
• Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to document and communicate architecture clearly and concisely
• Familiarity with lifecycle management of systems in a large enterprise
• Expert knowledge of network protocols and enterprise network architecture and the ability to research, architect and drive complete technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies
• Experience securing workloads
• Experience migrating to the public cloud (Amazon, Google, Microsoft)
• Experience managing cloud access security brokers (CASB), including single sign on, authorization, encryption, etc.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database systems
• Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter who can lead others and focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them
• Flexible and adaptable to change
• Experience managing and understanding stakeholder issues, providing clear and concise communication and counseling to stakeholders
• Change agent with the proven ability to influence others by using appropriate skills to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus or take action
• Experience using strong business knowledge and perspective, synthesize complex information and develop theories to arrive at logical recommendations
• Adept at viewing situations from the stakeholder’s perspective to better address their needs and expectations
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, business processes, work requirements, or cultures
• Travel required up to 5%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SAFe, Zachman)
• Experience in a regulated industry such as health insurance, healthcare, financial services, or government
• Experience with product operating models, Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe, or comparable enterprise planning and delivery approaches
• Experience with enterprise architecture modeling, architecture repositories, and governed architecture decision records
• Experience defining testable architectural guardrails, fitness functions, policy-as-code, or delivery-pipeline conformance checks
• Experience with AI, machine learning, retrieval-augmented solutions, or agent-based systems, including evaluation, monitoring, data governance, privacy, security, and human oversight
• Depth in one or more relevant domains, such as business architecture, data, security, integration or interoperability, application, cloud, platform, infrastructure, network, resilience, or a health-plan value stream
• Relevant architecture or domain certification

The salary range for this role is $130,000 to $185,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

At Turnberry, we are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in and focused on hiring and growing a diverse team of high performers. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better Turnberry: Turnberry is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.

Turnberry will provide reasonable accommodation with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please send an email to our Human Resources department at [e-mail].