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Protiviti

Senior Solutions Architect – Associate Director

Protiviti

. Provide senior technical leadership across strategic and complex AWS client engagements .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $163,000 - $278,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudERPOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide senior technical leadership across strategic and complex AWS client engagements
  • Establish architecture direction and engineering standards for AWS Platform Engineering
  • Advise client CIO, CTO, CISO, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering leaders on cloud strategy and major AWS technology decisions
  • Guide Solutions Architects and Senior Cloud Engineers through complex architecture and delivery challenges
  • Review and influence designs involving AWS infrastructure, networking, security, resilience, migration, modernization, automation, and operating models
  • Intervene in high-risk or highly complex delivery situations requiring senior technical leadership
  • Ensure engagements align with client outcomes, engineering quality standards, security expectations, and sustainable operating models
  • Develop reusable reference architectures, engineering frameworks, accelerators, and intellectual property
  • Build technical capability through mentoring, coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
  • Partner with AWS alliance and pre-sales leaders to shape strategic opportunities
  • Translate client needs and delivery insights into new service offerings and solution patterns
  • Contribute to technical solutioning, estimation, executive presentations, proposals, and statements of work
  • Develop trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders to generate continued advisory and engineering opportunities
  • Maintain accountability for an assigned sales quota and contribute to pipeline development and conversion
  • Identify opportunities based on meaningful client needs rather than transactional selling
  • Represent the AWS Platform Engineering practice with AWS technical teams, strategic clients, and industry stakeholders
  • Lead complex engagements, strengthen strategic client relationships, manage technology risk, and oversee successful project delivery
  • Mentor teams and develop engineers and architects
  • Establish reusable delivery standards and connect delivery excellence to account growth

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as MIS, IS, or Computer Science
  • 9+ years working in professional services or industry
  • Required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • Deep and broad expertise designing, implementing, and governing enterprise AWS environments
  • Ability to influence architecture and technology strategy across large or complex organizations
  • Experience leading multiple complex cloud engagements or portfolios of technical work
  • Strong architecture capability across infrastructure, networking, security, automation, resilience, governance, operations, and migration
  • Ability to advise senior executives while retaining credibility with deeply technical engineering teams
  • Significant experience shaping and estimating complex cloud transformation engagements
  • Ability to identify client needs and translate them into valuable consulting and engineering engagements
  • Experience developing technical leaders and raising engineering standards across an organization
  • Strong understanding of consulting economics, delivery risk, scope management, and commercial decision making
  • Experience in consulting, professional services, or systems integration environments strongly preferred
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock, including agents, knowledge bases, and guardrails
  • Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar orchestration services
  • Knowledge of API design and integration patterns, including REST and event-driven patterns
  • Knowledge of data architecture for agent knowledge bases ingesting and indexing procurement/logistics data
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using CDK or CloudFormation
  • Knowledge of IAM, networking, and VPC design for AWS environments
  • Familiarity with ERP integration patterns, including JDE and Oracle FBDI export format
  • Ability to translate procurement workflows into technical architecture
  • Experience leading agentic AI / GenAI builds, not just chatbots
  • Successful completion of a background check

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Annual bonus plan with eligible employees receiving additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities; 16% bonus target opportunity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverages
  • FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Adoption and fertility assistance
  • Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with employer match of 50% on the first 6% of contributions
  • Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time; new hires receive up to 20 days per calendar year
  • Up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year
  • Hybrid work model combining in-person and remote work
  • Flexible environment
  • Professional development through mentoring, coaching, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and training opportunities