Solution Architect, Cloud Services

Insight Global; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a seasoned cloud solution architect in Dallas to lead pre-sales activities and craft end-to-end cloud architectures for client opportunities. You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and clients to shape winning strategies and scalable designs.

Ideal candidates bring experience as a Deal Architect or similar pre-sales role, strong leadership, and deep knowledge across Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or above.
• Proven experience as a Deal Architect, Solution Architect, or similar pre-sales role in the cloud services field.
• Proven leadership qualities, with passion for rapid learning and forming expert opinions.
• Expertise in at least two cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales pursuit teams and client stakeholders to qualify opportunities, assess current landscapes, and define winning future-state architectures.
• Design and present cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures—spanning IaC, containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), and serverless computing that anchor compelling proposals.
• Apply the principles of the Well-Architected Framework to ensure proposed solutions are resilient, performant, secure, and cost-optimized.
• Build end-to-end solution designs across compute, storage, networking, identity, and security domains, with clear scope and assumptions.
• Develop effort estimates, pricing, and delivery approaches for cloud assessments, migrations, and modernization initiatives using proven methodologies and solution accelerators.
• Mentor junior architects, contribute to internal knowledge sharing, and grow a library of reusable assets, estimating models, and reference architectures.
• Drive thought leadership through client workshops, proposal defenses, and whitepapers on emerging cloud technologies and commercial best practices.

Skills

Deal Architect

Solution Architecture

Pre-sales

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

The role is in-office or on client sites Monday-Thursday, Remote Friday!

In this role, you will:

• Partner with sales pursuit teams and client stakeholders to qualify opportunities, assess current landscapes, and define winning future-state architectures.
• Design and present cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures—spanning Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and serverless computing that anchor compelling proposals.
• Apply the principles of the Well-Architected Framework to ensure proposed solutions are resilient, performant, secure, and cost-optimized.
• Build end-to-end solution designs across compute, storage, networking, identity, and security domains, with clear scope and assumptions.
• Develop effort estimates, pricing, and delivery approaches for cloud assessments, migrations, and modernization initiatives using proven methodologies and solution accelerators.
• Mentor junior architects, contribute to internal knowledge sharing, and grow a library of reusable assets, estimating models, and reference architectures.
• Drive thought leadership through client workshops, proposal defenses, and whitepapers on emerging cloud technologies and commercial best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or above
• Proven experience as a Deal Architect, Solution Architect, or similar pre-sales role in the cloud services field
• Proven leadership qualities, with passion for rapid learning and forming expert opinions.
• Expertise in at least two of the cloud technologies - Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP, or equivalent cloud technologies
• Profound knowledge of core cloud concepts and technologies, e.g., compute, network,