Director, Solution Architecture Cloud, Data and AI
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
The Role
This is a senior leadership role for an architect who is equally comfortable in a client boardroom in a technical design review and in a proposal war room. Youll architect AI- and data-driven solutions for our most strategic engagements contribute to the reusable IP that powers our offerings and partner with sales leaders to shape and win new work.
You will operate across three connected pillars:
1. Solution Architecture for AI-Enabled Delivery
Lead architecture and technical strategy for client engagements spanning data platforms application modernization AI/ML and agentic systems. Design solutions that integrate cloud infrastructure modern data stacks and AI capabilities and ensure those solutions are delivered using AI-assisted engineering practices that compress timelines without compromising quality.
2. Accelerator and Offering Development
Contribute to and evolve Resultants portfolio of reusable accelerators reference architectures and methodology assets (anchored to our Unified Delivery Platform approach). Every engagement should leave Resultant with reusable IP. Youll help define what good looks like raise the bar on repeatability and partner with engineering leaders to operationalize accelerators across our six core service offerings.
3. Pre-Sales and Go-to-Market Partnership
Partner with sales account and offering leaders on RFPs executive briefings scoping workshops and proposal architecture. Translate client business outcomes into credible technical approaches sized estimates and differentiated narratives. Build relationships with our cloud and platform partners (Google Cloud AWS Databricks Snowflake Anthropic) to drive joint pursuits.
What Youll Do
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture on strategic engagements across public sector and commercial clients
- Architect AI and agentic solutions including LLM-powered applications RAG systems agent workflows Document AI and Contact Center AI grounded in real business outcomes not hype
- Design modern data platforms (lakehouse warehouse streaming governance) that serve as the foundation for analytics and AI
- Shape AI-assisted delivery practices on engagements including responsible-use guardrails when working in regulated environments
- Author and review reference architectures accelerator designs and methodology artifacts
- Lead technical discovery scoping and estimation for new opportunities; serve as the technical voice on executive proposals
- Mentor senior architects and engineering leaders; contribute to architect career pathing and craft standards
- Maintain compliance posture for regulated workloads including HIPAA CJIS FedRAMP/StateRAMP and SOC 2 environments where applicable
- Represent Resultant in partner ecosystems and at industry events
Qualifications :
What You Bring
- 10 years of progressive experience in solution architecture technical consulting or enterprise technology leadership including time in a client-facing consulting environment
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering AI/ML or GenAI solutions in production not just pilots
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud (Google Cloud AWS or Azure) and fluency across modern data platforms (Databricks Snowflake BigQuery)
- Hands-on familiarity with the current LLM and agentic landscape: model selection RAG patterns evaluation agent frameworks and enterprise governance
- Track record of contributing to reusable IP accelerators frameworks methodologies or productized offerings
- Pre-sales experience: RFP response executive scoping estimating and partner co-sell motions
- Strong communication and executive presence; able to move fluidly between CIO conversations and engineering whiteboards
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree or relevant certifications a plus
Additional Information :
What you should know about Resultant:
- Rezzers are humble hungry and smart. We solve big problems serve lots of clients and are entirely committed to delivering transformative outcomes.
- Rezzers are team players deeply dedicated to the mission of the organization and to helping everyone around us be successful.
- Resultant compensates well rewarding performance that delivers positive outcomes for our clients and ensuring incentives are aligned to achieve our goals.
- Resultant leaders work hard serving as a shining example of what it means to be a great Rezzer. They are servant leaders helping their team to be successful in all possible ways.
- We have a great benefits package including unlimited vacation significant 401k contributions and several opportunities to develop yourself.
- We pride ourselves in having the best talent in the industry and hope that youre up for the challenge!
What our team members say about us
- I love our true empathy and concern for our clients its very rare and appreciated. It is a pleasure to be a part of an organization like Resultant.
- I learn something new every single day and I feel like Im a part of building an organization that has legs. I appreciate that Im consistently humbled by the talent and caliber of our team.
- The culture of the company is amazing and the climate of my team is great. The benefits that employees are offered are better than competitors and the one-on-one presence that my team lead gives is extremely beneficial to me.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age color sex disability national origin race religion or veteran status.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We embrace AI across everything we do and that includes how you prepare for this interview. Feel free to use AI tools to research the role practice your responses and put your best foot forward. What matters to us is getting to know the real you how you think how you communicate and what you genuinely bring to the table. Our interviews are designed to go deeper than any polished answer so come curious and come as yourself without the support of an AI tool during our conversation.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Resultant is an outcomes-focused consulting firm committed to helping clients make technology a strategic asset and use data to guide better decisions. But we’re not just data and tech experts; we are problem solvers and industry experts who work alongside our clients to help them ach ... View more