Solution Architect, Forward Deployed Architecture (AI Capability Center)

Huron; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Annual incentive program

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Manager-level AI Solution Architect to design end-to-end Azure-based AI solutions that align with business goals and governance standards. You will frame problems with stakeholders, own the architecture, and guide engineers through secure, scalable implementation.

You will work across identity, networking, data, and security, ensuring cost-aware production readiness and measurable success, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in solution or cloud architecture, with 3+ years on Microsoft Azure
• 2+ years designing or delivering AI/ML solutions, including production deployments
• Strong knowledge of Azure identity, networking and security (Entra ID, Key Vault, RBAC)
• Able to translate business problems into engineer-ready designs
• Comfortable communicating with executives and leading teams
• Onshore US or Canada as required for healthcare work; willing to travel

Responsibilities

• Frame the problem with business stakeholders to determine AI fit
• Own the design and produce the Azure-based solution architecture (models, retrieval, agents, data, identity, networking, security)
• Keep the design current with evolving work and guardrails
• Design for production: secure, governed, observable, cost-aware per Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Translate business needs into actionable engineering work and drive decisions
• Set success metrics for model and agent evaluation with the Eng. Manager
• Collaborate with engineers on infrastructure as code, retrieval pipelines and agent orchestration

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure AI services

AI/ML design

Executive communication

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Azure AI Foundry

Anthropic Claude

Entra ID

Key Vault

Terraform / Bicep

GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps

Job description

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We're helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we're developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.As a member of the Huron corporate team, you'll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron's collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.Join our team and create your future.This person works alongside a Huron business team. They turn the business problem into an AI solution design on Microsoft Azure that the engineers can build. They own that design end to end, build the hard parts alongside the engineers, and are the main link between the business and the pod.

Key Responsibilities

• Frame the problem. Run the early conversations with the business to frame the problem worth solving and decide where AI fits and where it does not.
• Own the design. Produce the solution architecture on Azure, covering models, retrieval, agents, data, identity, networking, and security. Keep it current as the work evolves.
• Design for production. Make the design secure, governed, observable, and cost-aware from the start, in line with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Huron security and governance standards.
• Translate both ways. Between what the business needs and what the engineers build.
• Set the measures. Agree what success looks like and how it is measured, including model and agent evaluation, with the Engagement Manager and the engineers before the build starts.
• Build the hard parts. Work alongside the engineers on the pieces of the build the design depends on, including infrastructure as code, retrieval pipelines, and agent orchestration.
• Bring domain depth. Keep the design right for the industry it serves.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Claude Certified Architect - Foundations.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI services, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Foundry, and with Anthropic Claude models.
• Understands RAG, agents, and evaluation well enough to design and build them.
• Infrastructure as code with Bicep or Terraform, and CI/CD on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Healthcare or higher education domain depth, including work with regulated data.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, changing environments with shifting priorities and unclear problems.

General Required Skills

• 5 to 8 years in solution or cloud architecture, including at least 3 years designing on Microsoft Azure and 1 to 2 years leading.
• At least 2 years designing or delivering AI or machine learning solutions, including at least one generative AI solution taken to production.
• Working knowledge of Azure identity, networking, and security, including Entra ID, private networking, Key Vault, and role-based access control.
• Able to turn unclear problems into designs engineers can build.
• Strong writer and facilitator, credible with executives.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Based onshore (US or Canada) for the Healthcare work, with travel required as needed.

The estimated base salary for this job is $145,000 - $170,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $174,000 - $204,000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.#LI-REMOTE#LI-CL1

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America