Principal Solutions Architect

The role

The Principal Solutions Architect leads technical discovery, designs solution architectures, and provides senior technical guidance. This role involves translating business requirements into technology solutions and mentoring technical teams across various functions.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery and assessment activities
• Design and own solution architectures spanning applications, data, cloud, integration, and enterprise technology
• Provide senior technical guidance on architecture decisions
• Translate complex business requirements into practical, scalable technology solutions
• Support clients in defining future-state data architectures and management strategies
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point
• Lead and mentor technical teams
• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI and generative AI
• Contribute to solutioning and new business opportunities

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or a related technical or quantitative discipline
• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, software engineering, technology consulting, or a related technical discipline
• Significant experience working in a client-facing consulting, professional services, systems integration, or technology delivery environment
• Proven experience designing and delivering technology solutions within complex enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of solution and enterprise architecture principles
• Experience with modern cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, with deep expertise in at least one
• Strong experience with data platforms, databases, data modelling, data integration, and data management
• Experience with modern software engineering and delivery practices, including APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, monitoring, and observability
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and provide senior-level guidance
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong commercial awareness and an entrepreneurial approach to consulting and solution delivery
• Willingness to travel, up to 80%

Nice to have

• advanced degree
• Exposure to AI, machine learning, generative AI, or other emerging technologies

Benefits

• Competitive salary with annual profit-sharing opportunity
• 401k matching
• 25 days of annual paid time off (accrued)
• Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
• Reimbursement for commuting, mobile phone, and home internet expenses
• North America team-wide training and retreats
• Sponsorship towards professional certifications / training supported with 5 days of paid training time

About the company

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. It was acquired by Bridgepoint in 2024.