Principal Solution Architect

Plante Moran; Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

Plante Moran is seeking an accomplished Solution Architect to optimize the Management Consulting technology stack and define end-to-end architectures. You will partner with enterprise, platform, and product leaders to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards while enabling practice capabilities and scalable delivery lifecycle.

The role requires a deep architecture background, 10+ years of experience across domains, strong communication, and leadership to guide practice initiatives and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Ten years of architecture experience across multiple domains with depth in at least one relevant area.
• Strong analytical and design thinking abilities.
• Experience in professional services, consulting, or regulated environments.
• Experience in product-centric or platform-based delivery models.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• High personal standards for performance and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the practice's technology stack by consolidating tools and retiring legacy solutions.
• Define end-to-end, scalable solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
• Act as design authority for practice solutions and approve architecture designs.
• Define reusable solution patterns and reference architectures to ensure consistency and reduce technical debt.
• Support lifecycle activities: roadmap, platform upgrades, and decommissioning decisions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Platform, and Foundational Architects on security, data, AI, and infrastructure standards.
• Advise PMs/POs on architectural trade-offs between standard capabilities and customization.
• Represent the practice in architecture governance forums and align roadmaps across teams.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Analytical thinking

Design thinking

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

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.

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.

Your role.

• 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.

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. 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.

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

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 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 an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Plante Moran maintains a drug-free workplace.

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.

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.

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