Solution Architect

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

Job summary

Plante Moran is seeking a Solution Architect to optimize the Management Consulting technology stack, consolidate tools, improve integration, and retire legacy solutions. You will define end-to-end architectures enabling practice capabilities and align with enterprise standards while partnering with product and enterprise teams.

You will design scalable solutions for the engagement lifecycle, workflows, reporting, and analytics using shared platforms, reviewing designs as the design authority for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• At least ten years of architecture experience across multiple domains.
• Strong analytical and design thinking abilities.
• Experience designing solutions in a professional services or regulated environment.
• Experience in a product-centric or platform-based delivery model.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end, scalable solutions for engagement lifecycle, workflows, reporting, and analytics.
• Serve as the design authority, approving architectures and patterns to align with standards.
• Develop reusable solution patterns and reference architectures for consistency and scalability.
• Support product lifecycle including roadmap definition, platform upgrades, and decommissioning decisions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Platform, and Foundational Architects on security, data, AI, and infrastructure standards.
• Advise on architectural trade-offs between standard capabilities and customization.
• Represent the practice in architecture governance forums and align roadmaps.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Design thinking

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Solution Architect, your primary responsibility is to optimize the Management Consulting technology stack by identifying opportunities to consolidate tools, improve integration, streamline workflows, apply emerging technologies, and retire redundant or legacy solutions. You will also define and govern 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. 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.

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.

Compensation

Compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA: $125,000.00 - $190,000.00.

Equal Opportunity

Plante Moran is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plante Moran maintains a drug-free workplace.