Solutions Architect

Liquid AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Liquid AI in Boston is seeking a highly motivated Technical Solution Architect to guide a large-scale enterprise technology transformation. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable architectures and work with stakeholders, product management, security, and partners to deliver modern solutions that improve user experiences and business outcomes.

This role requires hands-on leadership across architecture domains, agile delivery, and phased implementation planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT delivery, systems implementation, or architecture.
• 5+ years as a Technical Solution Architect or similar in enterprise systems.
• 5+ years in cross-functional, agile teams.
• Translate business goals into technical guidance.
• Experience with cloud-based enterprise platforms and API design.
• Experience evaluating vendor designs for security and maintainability.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools for requirements analysis and design reviews.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain solution architecture guidance across domains.
• Translate objectives into practical architecture recommendations.
• Ensure architectures meet goals, UX, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with product, design, and delivery to create roadmaps.
• Review vendor architectures for quality, security, and goals.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to resolve technical decisions.
• Advise on configuration vs custom development and modular components.
• Work hands-on with teams and partners to address challenges.
• Support phased planning by identifying dependencies and risks.
• Guide integration planning across enterprise systems.
• Support data migration and cutover planning.
• Promote governance, documentation, and security-by-design.
• Evaluate AI-enabled capabilities within governance and privacy.
• Communicate tradeoffs and decisions to stakeholders across functions.

Skills

IT delivery

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

API design

Data migration

Security frameworks

Governance

Requirements analysis

Vendor relations

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated, organized, and strategic Technical Solution Architect to support a large-scale enterprise technology transformation initiative.

The ideal candidate is energized by complex, people-centered digital transformation efforts and excited by the opportunity to help shape and deliver modern solutions in evolving environments. This individual is comfortable operating at both the strategic and implementation levels and is focused on driving improved user experiences, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.

In this role, you will provide technical leadership across the program, translating business objectives and user needs into secure, scalable, flexible, and sustainable solution architectures. The Technical Solution Architect will collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, data and security professionals, product managers, user experience teams, end users, and third-party vendors to support the development and implementation of a modern enterprise platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain solution architecture guidance across application, integration, data, security, reporting, analytics, cloud, and operational domains.
• Translate business objectives and user requirements into practical technical architecture recommendations and implementation strategies.
• Ensure solution architectures align with business goals, user experience objectives, scalability requirements, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with product, design, and delivery teams to develop technical strategies, architecture roadmaps, and implementation plans that support iterative and agile delivery approaches.
• Review vendor solution architectures, technical designs, development approaches, and implementation deliverables for quality, security, performance, and alignment with project goals.
• Collaborate with business, technology, security, legal, compliance, and vendor teams to resolve technical decisions and maintain alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Advise on the appropriate balance of configurable platform capabilities, custom development, integrations, and modular architecture components.
• Work hands-on with internal teams and implementation partners to address technical challenges, validate concepts, and support proof-of-concept activities.
• Support phased implementation planning by identifying dependencies, technical constraints, risks, and opportunities for incremental value delivery.
• Guide integration planning across enterprise systems, financial applications, identity and access management platforms, reporting solutions, and other business-critical technologies.
• Support data and legacy system migration efforts, including data mapping, transformation, cleansing, validation, and cutover planning.
• Promote architecture governance, documentation standards, decision records, peer reviews, testing practices, security‑by‑design principles, and maintainable solution patterns.
• Evaluate AI‑enabled, automation, analytics, and emerging technology capabilities within established governance, privacy, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Clearly communicate technical tradeoffs and architectural decisions to stakeholders across business and technology functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT delivery, systems implementation, software engineering, enterprise technology, or solution architecture.
• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or similar role supporting complex enterprise systems.
• 5+ years of experience working within cross‑functional teams utilizing agile, iterative, and user‑centered delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals, operational requirements, and user needs into effective technical solutions and architectural guidance.
• Experience with cloud‑based enterprise platforms, API and integration design, data migration, security frameworks, accessibility considerations, and phased implementations.
• Experience evaluating vendor technical designs, implementation approaches, and project deliverables for feasibility, quality, security, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted tools and technologies that support requirements analysis, design reviews, development processes, testing, documentation, or migration activities.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to collaborate across business and technical teams while effectively communicating technical concepts and tradeoffs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise platforms, including ERP, procurement, finance, grants management, licensing, permitting, customer service, or workflow‑intensive applications.
• Experience with data governance, reporting, analytics, data quality, and migration initiatives.
• Familiarity with industry‑standard security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and records management requirements.
• Experience with Agile, hybrid delivery models, phased rollouts, operational readiness planning, testing strategies, and transition management.
• Experience evaluating AI‑enabled capabilities, automation solutions, analytics platforms, reporting tools, search technologies, or decision‑support systems in regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience designing or supporting systems that serve multiple stakeholder groups, including internal users, external partners, customers, and public‑facing audiences.